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reference
(Red Fox edition)
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Task: |
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Chapter
1 & 2
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A new child, your age, is coming to live with you. What
would you feel/think? What would you tell them about life
in your house? |
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Use Helen
Lundy's sheet to record Dinah's opinions of the characters
she meets on her first day at school. |
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Chapter
3
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Write a code of conduct for the playground at this school.
Write a 6 question test for a child your age. Swap with
partner and do each other's quizzes. Mark. |
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Chapter
4
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Design a handbill advertising a hypnotist who is coming
to your town. |
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Chapter
5
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Write about your earliest memories in as much detail as
you can. |
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Chapter
6
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Write a list of things you don't understand. Suggest some
possible answers/solutions. |
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Chapter
7
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What types of behaviour add up to bullying and how should
each be punished? |
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Chapter
8
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"Playing
anywhere on school premises is most strictly forbidden".
Think up some equally ridiculous rules for life outside
school. |
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Chapter
9
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"Sooner
or later, he's going to want to do something with his
army." What are the advantages to the headmaster of hypnotising
all his pupils?
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Chapter
10
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Write
the "Register of Rules". |
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Chapter
11
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"She felt more lonely than she had ever felt in her life."
Draw a colour picture of loneliness. |
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Chapter
12
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Devise a plan to stop the Eddy Hair show coming to the school. |
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Chapter
13
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Draw a map of the school, its grounds and show where the
teachers, prefects and lorries have been trapped. Include
the boilerhouse where the Headmaster finds them. |
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Chapter
14
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If
you could hypnotise people, what would you get them to do
and why? |
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Chapter
15
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What is the Headmaster going to say? Write his speech. |
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Chapter
16
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What
do you think this country would have been like if the Headmaster's
plan had worked? |
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Review
the whole book. Summarise the whole story in three sentences.
Write a sentence about each main character, summing up what
sort of person they are. Say what you particularly liked
and disliked about it, giving reasons and lastly, give the
book a mark out of ten overall. |
