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ANIMAL FARM

Exercises

ANIMAL FARM

GEORGE ORWELL

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which as which..."

ISBN 978-0-241-19668-7

HOLES

LOUIS SACHAR

Our second term 2º ESO we are going to read HOLES a book by Louis Sachar

ISBN: 978-1-4088-6523-1

Stanley Yelnats' family has a history of bad luck, so when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre (which isn't green and doesn't have a lake) he is not surprised. Every day he and the other inmates are told to dig a hole, five foot wide by five foot deep, reporting anything they find. The evil warden claims that it is character building, but this is a lie and Stanley must dig up the truth.

You can find it here

Exercises 4

aNSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN YOUR NOTEBOOK:

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Deadline: 2AB/ 2CD 1st of APril 2019

   

Exercises 3

aNSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN YOUR NOTEBOOK:

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Deadline: 2AB/ 2CD 1st of APril 2019

   

Exercises 2

aNSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN YOUR NOTEBOOK:

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Deadline: 2AB/ 2CD 1st April 2019

   

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Exercises 1

aNSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN YOUR NOTEBOOK:

Deadline: 2AB Friday 1st February

2CD Monday 4th February    

This first term 2º ESO we are going to read WONDER a book by R.J. Palacios.

ISBN: 978-0-552-56597-4

'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'

Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go.

Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?

WONDER is a funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.

2º ESO First Term:

WondEr!

Exercises

Answer the following questions in your notebook:

1. Where does Auggie live?

2. What are the names of the people in August's family?

3. What do you think of August? How do you imagine his life before the book starts?

4. What are the names of the three students who take August on a tour around the school?

What do you think of them? Can you write a brief description on each?

5. What films are August's favourites? Have you seen any of this films? Julian asks August if the likes a character in particular? Which one? Why do you think he does this? What do you think of it.

Deadline: 11th of October   

Exercises

Answer the following questions in your notebook:

1. Where does Auggie live?

2. What are the names of the people in August's family?

3. What do you think of August? How do you imagine his life before the book starts?

4. What are the names of the three students who take August on a tour around the school?

What do you think of them? Can you write a brief description on each?

5. What films are August's favourites? Have you seen any of this films? Julian asks August if the likes a character in particular? Which one? Why do you think he does this? What do you think of it.

Deadline: 11th of October   

Exercises

Answer the following questions in your notebook:

1. Where does Auggie live?

2. What are the names of the people in August's family?

3. What do you think of August? How do you imagine his life before the book starts?

4. What are the names of the three students who take August on a tour around the school?

What do you think of them? Can you write a brief description on each?

5. What films are August's favourites? Have you seen any of this films? Julian asks August if the likes a character in particular? Which one? Why do you think he does this? What do you think of it.

Deadline: 11th of October   

Exercises 1

Answer the following questions in your notebook:

1. Where does Auggie live?

2. What are the names of the people in August's family?

3. What do you think of August? How do you imagine his life before the book starts?

4. What are the names of the three students who take August on a tour around the school?

What do you think of them? Can you write a brief description on each?

5. What films are August's favourites? Have you seen any of this films? Julian asks August if the likes a character in particular? Which one? Why do you think he does this? What do you think of it.

Deadline: 3rd of October   

Exerices 2

Page 65 - onwards

Answer the following questions in your notebook:

1. What is Mr. Browne's October Precept? What do you think of it?

2. What do you think Augie's mum means when she says "I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree?"

3. Augie describes himself as the "Mouldy Cheese" in Diary of a Wimpy kid. Why?

4. What does Augie hear Jack say about him to Julian and his friends? How does Augie react? Why do you think Jack said that?

PART TWO:

5. Part Two is Via’s view of the situation. It opens with a quote from David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity'. Do you know who David Bowie is? Look it up in the internet:

- David Bowie (write a brief paragraph)

- Space Oddity (listen to the song)

 

6. Via continues to employ metaphors of space and planets to describe the family situation. She suggests that Auggie is the sun and that she and her parents are like planets revolving around him. She ends by saying: ‘The
galaxy is changing. The planets are falling out of alignment.’ Why do you think she says this?

 

Deadline: 2C xx th of October

2A/B xx of October   

Exerices 3

Answer the following questions in your notebook:

1. Listen to Christina Aguilera's song. What is the song about? Do you like it? Why do you think it's opening Summer's chapter?

Link to song: YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL

2. Why do you think they call Summer "a saint"?

Deadline: 2C xxth of October

2A/B xx of October   

Exerices 4

Answer the following questions in your notebook: Up to page 180

SUMMARISE

1. Write at least one sentence for every new chapter 

 

COMPREHEND

2. Why did Jack Will change his mind and finally agree to become a "welcome buddy"?

 

REFLECT:

3. Jack’s betrayal of August is eventually forgiven. Is such forgiveness or understanding a characteristic of true friendship?

4. Charlotte warns Jack about the list Julian has drawn up of people who are for or against Auggie, or who are ‘neutral’ but when she leaves, he thinks: ‘I guess even though she was neutral, she didn’t want to be seen with me.’(p 173) How easy is it to be ‘neutral’?

Deadline: 2C/D xxth of October

2A/B xxth of November   

Exercise 5

Deadline: 2C xx of November

2A/B xx of November   

SUMMARISE

1. Write at least one sentence for every new chapter 

REFLECT:

2. Why do you think Justin's part has no capitals at all? (there is not a wrong answer, so just think what kind of person Justin is)

Answer the following questions in your notebook: Up to page 223

Exercise 6: 

Book revision:

1. Study for the exam till page 248 

Exercise 7: 

Answer the following questions in your notebook: Up to page 289

SUMMARISE

1. Write at least one sentence for every new chapter 

COMMENT and REFLECT:

1. Have you ever seen the Sound of music? Do you know any of the songs? 

2. Why do you think this last part of the book is again about Augie? 

3. This part starts, like others, with the lyrics of a song. Why do you think is that so?

Listen to the song: Beautiful Child

Deadline: 2C xx of November

2A/B xxth of November   

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