ch 11 questions and voc words

A Long Way Gone

Ch.11 Questions

1. How did the boys grieve Saidu’s death?

2. Who is Gasemu?

3. What does Gasemu say about his family?

4. How did he feel when he thought of seeing his family again?

5. What happened as he was going down the hill?

6. Describe the village after the gunshots?

7. Why did Gaseu start screaming?

8. What happened to the house Ishmael’s family stayed at?

9. Why did he have a guilty feeling?

10. Describe the 10 rebels they saw, how were they acting?

11. What were the rebels boasting about?

12. Could you relate to any of the tragic events in this chapter or do you know some A-holes that are ruthless like the rebels?

13. What happened to Gasemu in the end? Where did Gasemu tell the boys to go?

14. How do you think it mad Ishmael feel seeing a familiar face and being recognized?


15. What feeling do you think they were feeling knowing they were close to seeing their families?


16. Have you ever been so close to getting something you want and have it slip away from you?

17. Do you think any of the boys families made it out of the village?


Ch 11 VOC WORDS

1. Vehemently
2. Executed
3. Boasting
4. Hesitantly
5. Motioned
6. Emerged
7. Grieve

ch 10 voc words, questions and adobe project

Voc Words, sentence and picture

1. Uncertain
2. Slender
3. Coaxed
4. Admitted
5. Quarrel
6. Obstructing

QUESTIONS PaRT 1:

1. How do you think the boys felt when they were invited hunting and to stay for the feast?
2. What did his grandmother call him when he would play tricks on his brother?
3. What specific things did he miss about his family?
4. Why didn’t they want to hear the story about Bra Spider?
5. What does the description of the naming ceremony tell you about his village and the members of his community?
6. Who or what took their meat?
7. After hearing all the boys’ stories about the rebels attacking, whose story do you think is the worst circumstance?
8. Do you think the people passing by were ghosts?
9. What do you think the dogs crying means?
10. What do you think made Saidu sick and ultimately killed him?
11. Have you ever experienced feelings like he is describing at the burial? Explain.

PART 2 QUESTIONS:

Ch.10 Questions

1. What is the unsettling thing about Ishmael journey?

2. Why are they boys always on the move?

3. Describe Ishmael’s mood in the beginning of the chapter.

4. What does he compare his journey with?

5. What does Saidu mean by this “I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies.”pg.70

6. What do spiders symbolize in his culture?

7. Tell me one of your fondest memories with your family?

8. What happened to your meat?

9. What happened to Musa’s family?

10. What was Alhaji doing during the attack?

11. What is Kanei’s story of attack?

12. Tell me Jumah and Moriba’s story?

13. Why was Saidu’s family unable to leave town during the attack?

14. What happened to Sauidi’s sister?

15. What do you think of the crow falling out of the sky? What does it mean?

16. Why were the dogs crying?

17. Which boy in the group died? What did they do for him?

18. Tell me some customs in your culture when someone dies?

19. What do you think was a fore shadow of death?

ch 9 voc words

DEFINE- PICTURE with SENTENCE

1. Simultaneously
2. Anesthesia
3. Hesitantly
4. Discouraged
5. Inevitable
6. Succession
7. Subsided
8. Attentively
9. Intricate

chapter 9 questions

A Long Way Gone

Ch.9 Questions

1. What sounds do the boys hear? Describe.

2. How does the Ocean help him remain at peace during war? Tell me a spot that keeps you calm.

3. Describe the clusters of huts on the beach.

4. Who ambushed the boys? What did they do to the boys?

5. Why did they attach the young boys? Tell me a time when you were mistaken to be something you are not.

6. Why was it a bad punishment taking their shoes from the boys?

7. Why were his group of boys crying without sound/

8. What did the strange man do for the boys?

9. Who is Musa? Describe him.

10. Describe Kanei.

11. Describe Alhaji.

12. Describe Jumah.

13. Describe Saidu and Moriba.

14. Which one of these boys would you most likely identify with?

15. After Ismeah finds more about the host, describe the host. Have you ever met someone that was super nice to you? Like they host to the boys.

16. When 12 men ran after their group of 7 what happened? Did they get caught?

17. What did Ismeah do to surprise the chaser?

18. What did the chief of the village call the boys?

19. What saved him from being killed?

20. Tell me a time were you almost got killed or escaped a huge accident?

ch 8 voc, and questions

Ch. 8 vocab define- sentence and picture

1. Suitable-
2. Familiarize-
3. Vicinity-
4. Irresistibly-
5. Hesitantly-
6. Medicinal-
7. Visualize-
8. Notorious-
9. Lured-

A Long Way Gone

Ch.8 Questions part 1

1. Why do you think he was feeling someone is always after him? Can you relate?

2. What is always on his mind?

3. Describe his sleeping situation?

4. Describe what food kept him alive?

5. Describe the medicine grandpa made. What does it do?

6. What was the most difficult part being in the forest?

7. Tell me a time when you wished you could stop thinking but you couldn’t?

8. Describe his life in the forest?

9. What drove his spirit alive?

10. How do they differentiate from what tribe each person is from?

11. What does this mean, pg.55 “Our innocence had been replaced by the fear and we had become monsters”?

12. Why were men with machetes after them often?
Ch 8 questions part 2

1. Explain how the images he is coming across is affecting him.
2. What does he do to keep his mind occupied?
3. Does Ishmael seem afraid to be lost in the jungle?
4. Do you think it was a risk to eat the strange fruit?
5. How do you think the memories of his family make him feel?
6. What crafty resources does he use to clean his body?
7. Explain the internal conflict going on between Ishmael and his thoughts?
8. He is starting to fear the forest and the possibilities, describe some possible dangers that are scaring him.
9. Ishmael keeps reminiscing about times with his family. What do you think this does for him emotionally?
10. How long does he stay in the forest?
11. Who did he run into?
12. What indicated what tribe they were from?
13. How did one of the boys comfort him?

chapter assignment adobe photoshop EXAMPLE

EXAMPLE for Chapter assignment - ADOBE photoshop
Adobe photoshop

1. based upon each chapter, find images of events, characters, setting on BING.com.
   
2. save them into your folder
3. open them up on adobe photoshop
4. duplicate layer for each pic
5. collage your photo to represent the meaning of the chapter
6. create title
7. add at least 2 quotes from the chapter
8. save as jpeg
9. add onto your powerpoint , send to missjade
10. add onto your BLOGSPOT

chapter assignments example of chapter chart

Example of chapter chart

Title: My World Turned Upside Down
Characters:

• Ishmael Beah
  The narrator of this true story, Ishmael, is a boy soldier who finds a way to escape the horrors of war and go on to counsel others who are only looking for a way to live in peace.
  Junior Beah
• Ishmael’s brother, his companionship and love for Ishmael are some of the memories that help rehabilitate Ishmael. They escaped the initial rebel attacks together and then lost each other in the confusion that followed days later. He goes in search of Ishmael when they are separated and dies never knowing that Ishmael had found his family only minutes before they were burned alive by the rebels
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Setting:
Mattru Jong
Sierra Leone, 1993-1997

New York City, 1998

Problem: It is evident that they have seen things that so plague their minds that if they explained it, Ishmael and his friends would refuse to accept it. He is only ten years old at this point and his imagination doesn’t have the capacity to understand what these children have witnessed.

Beginning:
1. The first time Ishmael is actually touched by the war, he is twelve. It is January, 1993, and he, his brother, Junior, and their friend Talloi decide that they will go to the town of Mattru Jong to participate in a talent show.
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1. On the morning they left for Mattru Jong, they loaded their backpacks with their cassettes and lyrics they are working on as well as several layers of clothes on their bodies for the days they would be gone. They have no idea that this unusual way of dressing will benefit them later. They also never say goodbye or tell anyone where they are going, because they have no idea they are leaving, never to return. They decide to walk the sixteen miles from their village of Mogbwemo to save money and stop halfway at Kabati, his grandmother’s village.
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End
1. Everyone runs for the bushes, but Ishmael doesn’t quite make it. He sees the driver, with a bleeding arm, vomit up blood and when the door on the other side opens, a woman leaning against it falls to the ground. Inside are three dead bodies, two girls and a boy, and their blood is spattered all over the inside of the van.
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Conclusion: The boys continue to tell themselves that the war is just a passing phase that will be over in less than three months. They listen to rap music to pass the time, but Ishmael can’t help but remember the images from Kabati.

Prediction:

• I prediction that next chapter,............
  

Image:

chapter 7 questions and Voc words

Ch.7. Questions, all questions need to be answered in complete sentences and with detail or using examples from the story!!

1. Describe the attack of Kamator?
2. Who is Mam? What did the Rebels do to him?
2. How did he and his brother get separated?
3. Can you relate? Tell me when you were separated from your family or someone you care for?
4. What was his main source of diet?
6. Where is he trying to get to? Why
7. How did the man and his family treat him in the river? Why?
7. Why was the attack so unexpected?
8. Describe what happened to the imam?
9. Did all of the boys stay together? Explain.
10. Why is the memory of moving to Mogbwemo so important right now?
11. Describe the scene of the village Kamator when Ishmael and Kaloko returned?
12. Describe how Ishmael is feeling now that he is alone in the forest?
13. Have you ever done something that you thought you couldn’t do?
14. Why is the family that he meets so skeptical of him?
15. How do you think he feels not being trusted? Especially when he hasn’t done anything wrong?

Ch. 7 vocab all voc words need to be define, sentence and picture!!

1. Oblivious
2. Vigorously
3. Demanded
4. Possibilities
5. Motioned
6. Thatched
7. Mounted
8. Pretending