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

CREATIVE WRITING CONTEST

BOY (KINDERGARTEN)

1. What happened to Dahl’s family in 1920? Would this have likely happened today? Explain.
2. How did Dahl’s mother respond to that incident?
3. How did Dahl get to kindergarten?

BOY (PAPA AND MAMA)

1. On page 11, Dahl discusses how both his grandfather and father were much older when they became a father. How would it feel to have your father/grandfather so much older than you? Do you think it would be good or bad? Why?

2. What “ingenious instrument” did Dahl’s father invent? Why?
3. What is a shipbroker?
4. What significant event happened to Dahl’s father after moving to Cardiff?
5. What are the “glorious walks” Dahl’s father insisted on having?