Chapters Ten and Eleven Railway Children Tasks

The Railway Children
Chapters Ten and Eleven
Task 1:

After a quarrel, the children agree to "bury the hatchet". Find out what this saying means and look up other sayings using The Phrase Finder (www.phrases.org.uk/index.html)
- website that has sayings and provides their meanings. Look up 5 “sayings” (colloquial expressions) and record their meanings in your Vocab/Lit notebook. Next write the saying on one side of an index card and the meaning on the back. We will quiz each other in class.

Task 2:

Look up the definitions of the following: indignantly, quarrelling, rubbish, drivel, evidence, traitor, parapet, hideous. Write the definition and use it in a sentence in your Vocab/Lit notebook. (Note: 8 words, definitions and sentences)

Task 3:

Read the quotes below. Write a paragraph for each in your vocabulary/literature notebook what the sentences means to you.

Quote: "Mother, will it make you more unhappy if you tell me all about it? I want to understand." --The Railway Children By E. Nesbit.

Bobbie had felt almost from the first that for some strange miserable reason these questions hurt Mother and made her sad.--The Railway Children By E. Nesbit.

Task 4:

a) The children watch a paper chase. Research what a paper chase is. Do a search using Wikipedia using the term "paper chase". Write a 200 word description on A4 paper.

b) If every student completes all of the assignment we can play a game of paper chase during one of our classes.