1. Prior Class Reading: up to and including Chapter Fifty-Three
Boy in the Tower
Lesson Seventeen
Prior Class Reading: up to and including Chapter Fifty-Three
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2. What do the words “queer” and “harness” mean?
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost
What do the words “queer” and “harness” mean?
What does the horse do when the man stops?
Why does the man stop and why can’t he stay?
What rhyming pattern has the poet chosen to use?
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3. Optimist – a person who tends to be hopeful or confident.
In Chapter 53, we now discover that the Bluchers are in the building. The characters react to this news in different ways. Think about the reactions of each character and whether they match the descriptions below.
Realist – a person who accepts a situation and deals with it accordingly.
Optimist – a person who tends to be hopeful or confident.
Pessimist – a person who always believes the worst will happen.
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4. Think about which word describes each character
Think about which word describes each character. Find evidence from the text to support your viewpoint and record your evidence in the table.
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5. sparkles recognized contamination cheerful screeches
After reading Chapter 60, find and copy the word
that has a similar meaning to:
shimmers
sparkles
noticed
recognized
contamination
infection
cheerful
happy
screeches
shrieks
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6. Now we have read Boy in the Tower, what would you say were the main themes that run throughout the book?
friendship
fear
isolation
abandonment
hope
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7. Can you match the key events to the theme?
Ade misses Gaia.
friendship
Ade witnesses the death of the policemen.
fear
Ade meets Dory and Obi.
isolation
Dory is adamant they’ll be rescued.
abandonment
They find out the spores are dangerous.
hope
Ade’s mum refuses to leave the flat.
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8. Now create a mind map on the themes of the book
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