Read chapter 2 of The Boy at The Back of the Class. Click here to load the chapter
Chapter 2
Then answer the following questions:
1. What simile does the narrator use
to describe the new boy’s eyes?
2.Why does Tom say he used to think
there was ‘something wrong’ with the narrator at first?3. Why do you think that Ahmet stared
at his rucksack throughout the PE lesson?
4.Why do you think that the new boy
was allowed to sit on his own in history?
5.Why does no one learn what it was
like to be a gladiator living in Roman times that afternoon?
6.Why does everyone crowd around
Jennie outside the front gates?
7.What is one thing Jennie says she
knows about the new boy. Use information from the text to support your answer.
8. Find and copy reasons why the narrator
doesn’t think Ahmet is meeting his mum at the school gates.
9.What does the narrator give to Ahmet? Why do you think she felt it was important
she did this?
10.What does the narrator plan to do
the next day, and why?
Day 2:
Using what you have read in chapters 1 and 2 write a diary entry for the new boy. Chapter 2 talks about each lesson of the day so this will help you to structure each paragraph. Below is a reminder of features of a diary.
Day 3:
Complete the singular and plural activities below
Day 4:
Miss Stavish's class might remmeber: I SAW A WABUB!
Day 5:
Your challenge for today is to write a story or a poem that uses all of the subordinate conjunctions from I SAW A WABUB (see the image from day 4 to remind you) Miss Stavish has written an example poem below
