BOY (MRS PRACHETT'S REVENGE)

QUESTIONS:

1. How were they punished?

2. How did Dahl's mother react?

3. What resulted because of this incident?

VOCABULARY:

Choose ten words from this chapter that you don't understand, look them up in a dictionary and write their definitions.

BOARDING SCHOOLS

What are the pros and cons of boarding schools? Write four advantages and four disadvantages of sending children to boarding schools. 

FILM

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

BOY (THE BICYCLE AND THE SWEET-SHOP)

  1. What are the two moments Dahl can recall from the Llandoff School he attended  from age 7-­‐9?
  2. What is “ratitis”? Is it real?
  3. Describe some of Dahl’s favorite candies.

VOCABULARY

1. Flourishing
2. Slope
3. Whirring
4. Whizzing
5. Bizarre
6. Lecture
7. Cauldron
8. Coil
9. Sucked
10. Scabs