Tuesday, December 15, 2009

ch 17 voc and questions

Ch 17 questions

  1. Describe the nurse in your own words.
  2. Why were Ishmaels friends teasing him about? Have you ever been in that situation. What did your friends tease you about?
  3. What did the nurse tell Ishmael about them being friends?
  4. When he was talking to the nurse he was quiet in the beginning, and he stated he didn’t trust anyone in his life. Why does he feel this way? Give me examples.
  5. Have you ever been in a situation where you feel the same as Ishmael?
  6. What did the nurse give Ishmael?
  7. How does Ishmael respond when he unwraps the gift? Why??
  8. Describe when Ishmael shot the prisoners that had allegedly shot him.
  9. What was Esther’s response to Ishmael’s story?
  10. Why didn’t Esther want Ishmael taking the walkman with him?
  11. What stood out to you the most about his story of his past ? why/?
  12. What do you think about his lieutenant?
  13. Has he ever been injured? Tell me what happened.
  14. What did Ishmael see when he tried to remember his child hood?
  15. Explain his surgery, how did the doctors fix him up. Detail
  16. What is the worst thing you have ever endured?explain.
  17. What did he do right after he gained consciousness?
  18. What did he do to the “people responsible for his foot”
  19. When he gets flashbacks, how does he feel? Have you ever received flashbacks, what are they of?
  20. Why did Esther come on her Day off?
  21. What cassette did the field worker buy him at the market?
  22. Why do you think song writing is a passion for Ishmael?
  23. Have you ever written a song? Why?
  24. Why did Ishmael like the story of Rastafarianism and King Solomon and the queen of Sheba?
  25. He listens to Bob Marley to avoid nightmares, what is your favorite song from marley? Why?
  26. What phrase did Ishmael start to believe?
  27. Ester is like a savoir for him, who is your person that has helped you out of your rut?
  28. Why did Ishmael like talking to Esther?

Ch. 17 vocab

  1. Delved
  2. Conversation
  3. Burdensome
  4. Wharf
  5. Cringe
  6. Genuine
  7. Anguish
  8. Rastafarianism
  9. destination
  10. somber

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

ch 16 vocabulary words and questions

ch 16 voc words-
Please look up the word for the definition, make a sentence and an image to represent it.
  1. infuriating
  2. civilian
  3. vengeance
  4. cringed
  5. illuminated
  6. maneuver
  7. kiosks
  8. apprentice
  9. looted
  10. sporadic

Ch.16 Questions

  1. What made him infuriated? why?
  2. How did they feel about attending scheduled medication checkups?
  3. What was the result of them not having drugs?
  4. What do they do to the cooks? why?
  5. Have you ever bullied anyone, what did you do?
  6. What was happening to the drugs in his system? What did he do because of it?
  7. Can you relate to his cravings? what have you craved so badly that made you do something crazy?
  8. what do they do in between meals? give me examples from chapter of what they would do.
  9. Why do you think the staff members would come back after getting beaten up?
  10. who is Poppay? and what did they want from him? why?
  11. How would you feel if you were a staff member and had to go through this every day?
  12. Why was he getting so many migraines?
  13. what did they do to the classroom? what happened to him because of it?
  14. What did they do with the school supplies? How did they get them?
  15. Where did they go after breakfast?
  16. When they went to villages what are they scouting for?
  17. tell one incident that happened at a village.
  18. What famous movie do they refer all their war moves from?
  19. What do you think of them now? what disguises ou about what they are doing?
  20. Did they let anyone live in the village?
  21. who got the name little rambo?
  22. What was the nickname Ismael got?> why?
  23. describe the city.
  24. Describe what the informal school was like?
  25. He tried to sleep without medicine, what would happen to him? what were some things that kept him up or wake him up?
  26. Tell the seasons for Sierra Leone.
  27. What did they do when they didn’t have enough money to get home?
  28. What were some of the things they did at night?
  29. Why do you think they couldn’t sleep?
  30. Why do you think the staff member would always say “This isn’t your fault”?


Wednesday, December 2, 2009

ch 15 voc words and questions

Ch 15 vocab
DEFINE- SENTENCE and PICTURE for each word!!
  1. Captured
  2. Outskirts
  3. Commander
  4. Mingle
  5. Jovial
  6. Accustomed
  7. Snatch
  8. Gathered
  9. Impatiently.
QUESTIONS:
Ch.15 Questions

  1. How long have they been fighting for? How do they feel.
  2. Who arrived at the village? Describe.
  3. What did he considered his home and his family?
  4. How long had he been fighting for? How old was he now?
  5. What did he want to hear from Jumah ? Does that surprise you?
  6. What did the boys chat about all night?
  7. Where are these men taking the 15 soldiers? Who would you feel if you had to leave your friends at war?
  8. How did ishmael feel when he was in the truck? What was thinking of doing?
  9. If they are all around the same age why would they want to fight each other?
  10. Who were the men in the clean clothes? how can they tell? examples from chapter
  11. What did Ismael do to the man that tried to search him?
  12. How do you think Ishmael is feeling?
  13. What did Ishmael see after passing the last checkpoint?
  14. What happened after the new arrivals came in to the kitchen?
  15. What did the boy have a tattoo of? What happened after?
  16. What cheered the boys up after the fight? Why.
  17. Where did the military vehicles transport them to?
  18. How did Ishmael feel in his new rehabilitation center?
  19. What did Ishmael do that scared the other boys that were trying to get crazy with Ishmaels' friends?
  20. What did the little rebel boy say was the reason he was fighting with RUF?
  21. Was the refugee camp helping the boys ‘rehabilitate’?
  22. What happened to people trying to break up the fight?
  23. How many people were killed during the fight? Which sides were they from?