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School Journals Part 4, Number 3, 1996, School Journal Part 4, Number 2, 1997 & Part 2, Number 3, 1999   (Various authors)


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GENERAL COMPREHENSION

School Journal Part 4, Number 3, 1996
For Sale - Pete Williams
1)   This story is about a strange topic. Explain.   [2 marks]
2)   The mother takes drastic action. Say why she did what she did.   [2 marks]    [Help?]
3)   What's your opinion about the mother's actions? Give reasons for what you say.   [2 marks]   [Help?]
4)   Explain the reason for the borders for pages 27, 30 and 31.   [1 mark]
5)   Pretend you are the author. Pretend you are speaking to your sisters right after the police and social worker leave and you all go back to the house. Write down what you think you would be saying to them based on what happens in the story. [2 mks]
6)   In one or two sentences only, give a brief plot summary of this story.   [2 marks]

School Journal Part 2, Number 3, 1999
Uenuku's Gift - David Ellena
7)   Find pictures in magazines which reflect emotions which you think are present in the myth. You need to identify 5 emotions.
Cut out pictures you think reflect the emotions you have identified from the myth, paste them into your book, and label them: say which emotion each picture shows, and say how this is relevant to the myth.   [4 marks]

School Journal Part 4, Number 2, 1997
Dead Rat, Live On Stage - Donna Giltrap
8)   Explain what is happening in the illustration on page 43.   [2 marks]
9)   What happened during one of Mark's turns?   [2 marks]
10)   In what way was Mr Cambridge bluffing, do you think?   [1 mark]


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VOCABULARY SKILLS
Use "Dead Rat, Live On Stage" to answer these Vocabulary questions

EACH WORD BELOW IS MISSING CONSONANTS. WRITE THE WHOLE WORD IN YOUR BOOK, THEN GIVE TWO WORDS WHICH RHYME WITH THE ORIGINAL WORD:

11)   _ _OU_ _ _ (p42)   [1 mark]
12)   _O_ _i_ _EE (p42)   [1 mark]
13)   _U_ _ _E_ (p42)   [1 mark]
14)   _E_EA_ _I_ _ (p42)   [1 mark]

FIND HOMOPHONES IN THE TEXT FOR EACH OF THE WORDS BELOW:

15)   YORE (p42)   [1 mark]
16)   BRAKE (p43)   [1 mark]
17)   PAIL (p45)   [1 mark]
18)   WOOD (p43)   [1 mark]

19)   Write TWO (2) sentences only. You MUST include any TWO (2) words from numbers 16 - 19 (yore, brake, pail, wood) in EACH sentence. (You may not re-use any of the four key words.)   [2 marks]