Leave by Marie Keir
School Journal Part 3, Number 3 2008
Answer the following questions in red
WALT:Use our prior knowledge to apply, analyse and retell events in a story.
Looking at the title of the story and the image on the first page, what is this story about?
I think it about a toy camel
Why didn’t she say that she had missed mums spell?
he didn't say it because it might be wide.
What did mum put in Jade’s hands? Describe it.
she put a camel in her hands
Where do you think Jade’s mother has come home from?
by looking at what she is wearing and the camel you might think
that she came from egypt
What country do you think this story is set in, what is your reason for this?
by looking it looks like Australia of new zealand.
What does the word inspected mean? Put this into a sentence of your own
it mean someone that goes around the word to help in other countries
Who does peacekeeping for work, what does this mean?
it mean they have a place to look after
Where is Afghanistan, find three facts about this country.
Afghanistan is in the middle east
How do you think Ellie feels that her parents work in these types of occupations, how would you feel? she might be screed That her parent hight get shout
and die if it was me I will tell my mum to not go.
Wednesday:
Who was going to pick mum up in the morning? Where is mum going?
the army officer driver at the airport
Looking at the expression on Ellie’s face as her mother packs how do you think she feels? Why?
Why was Jade avoiding the hallway area that creaked when walking to mum and dads room? because her mum was going away
What had Jade hidden? For what reason do you think she hid this?
so her mum doesn't go
What happened when mum woke up and could not find her beret?
she started looking four it
What is mum doing for work, what is she building, why do you think she is building this?
her mum is building a school
Why was dad’s throat moving as if he couldn’t talk? How do you think Jade and her father feel about mum leaving? not happy
