Chapter 5 Railway Children Tasks

The Railway Children
Chapter Five Questions

Task 1: Due Date: __________________

In this chapter the children play a game of advertisements while in the station. Make up your own game of advertisements. Be sure to include a name for your game, a list of required items, rules and a point system.


Task 2: Due Date: _________________

Answer the following questions in your Vocabulary/Literature notebook:

a) They meet a passenger who can’t speak English. In what languages do they try to communicate?
b) On page 92, Peter comes up with an idea how to figure out the man’s nationality. What does Peter do?
c) What does the doctor say is wrong with the stranger?
d) What did Bobbie discover odd that Father had not taken with him?
e) What does Mother ask the children to do at the end of the chapter?


Task 3: Due Date: _________________

Read the quote below. Write a paragraph in your vocabulary/literature notebook what the sentences means to you.
Quote: "Oh don't!" said Bobbie; "don't you see how frightened he is? He thinks you're going to shut him up. I know he does, -- look at his eyes!"
--The Railway Children By E. Nesbit