Vocab/ACES
Reluctant means....
What is unsure, or hesitant.
Which of the items was NOT mentioned as one that goes in a Tuck Box: Currant Cake, a compass, a frog, basketball shoes.
What are basketball shoes?
What is unique about a boarding school?
What is you live at school when it is a boarding school.
Why did Roald Dahl leave the school of the first Headmaster we encountered, Mr. Coombes?
What is his mom found out about the caning incident, and was very unpleased.
Why did Dahl feel guilty when he saw the Sweet Shop closed after the mouse prank?
What is Thwaites had him convinced he killed Mrs. Pratchett
If a teammate misses a serve, it is good of teammates to still exhort them so that they can bounce back more easily, and try again later.
"Exhort" means...
What is encourage?
Why did The Headmaster encourage parents to send parcels for the student's tuck boxes?
What is so he could spend less money on providing food for them.
Did Roald Dahl's family live in Wales, or England?
What is Wales.
When Dahl says that all headmasters are "giants," he does not just mean they are really tall. What else does he mean?
What is they are frightening, or intimidating.
How did Dahl feel when Wragg poured sugar all over the corridor?
I stopped going to a pizza place when I saw a grab the pizza with their bare hands. That seemed loathsome to me.
"Loathsome"means...
What is gross or disgusting?
For how long did Dahl say the students lost access to their tuck boxes after the sugar prank?
What is six weeks?
What mode of transportation was required by Dahl to attend boarding school?
What is a ferry or a boat.
The Headmaster says these words to Dahl's mom:
Right,’ he said to me. ‘Off you go and report to the Matron.’ And to my mother he said briskly, ‘Goodbye, Mrs Dahl. I shouldn’t linger if I were you. We’ll look after him.’
My mother got the message. She kissed me on the cheek and said goodbye and climbed right back into the taxi."
"Briskly" means quickly and shortly. What is rude about this response?
What is he is trying to hurry her along, and is not patient with her saying goodbye to her son.
How did Dahl feel when his mom left, and he was at boarding school alone?
What is so sad, he even began to cry.
The construction outside my house at 7:00am is very resounding. It wakes neighbors up early who would otherwise be sleeping in.
"Resounding" means...
What is very loud
What makes the words here from The Headmaster sneaky? "Yes, yes, as often as you like. More than once a week if you wish . . . Of course he’ll be getting plenty of good food here, the best there is, but it never tastes quite the same as home cooking, does it?"
What is he is trying to put pressure on families to spend money on food for tuck boxes so that he does not have to.
What is a word you could use to describe Dahl's initial impression of the town his new school is in below?
"Weston-super-Mare is a slightly seedy seaside resort with a vast sandy beach, a tremendous long pier, an esplanade running along the sea-front, a clutter of hotels and boarding-houses, and about ten thousand little shops selling buckets and spades and sticks of rock and ice-creams."
What is appealing, or enjoyable, or marvelous.
Why does Dahl pick a shark, instead of an animal like a kitten or a puppy, to describe The Headmaster below?
"He advanced upon my mother and shook her by the hand, then he shook me by the hand and as he did so he gave me the kind of flashing grin a shark might give to a small fish just before he gobbles it up.
What is he is trying to emphasize how frightening and potentially cruel he is.
What factor especially made Dahl apprehensive about going to boarding school, even before he knew what the school would be like, and who the leaders were?
What is he had never spent a single night away from his home.
Why is the reason below not an effective one?
Evidence: "“Or ‘I don’t want you in ’ere just to look around! Either you forks out or you gets out!’”
Reason: The adults cause trouble because Mrs. Pratchett told the boys to get out.
What is the reason is too similar to the evidence, and will thus be too difficult to explain
What is just the owner of the tuck box.
What were Road Dahl's feelings as he got closer to the school below?
"St Peter’s was on a hill above the town. It was a long three-storeyed stone building that looked rather like a private lunatic asylum..."
What is he is intimidated or uneasy by it.
Look at the parts of the text below. Dahl says one third--nearly one half--of the entire school is reserved for just The Headmaster. He also describes The Headmaster to be "swimming around" shaking hands with everyone. What two ideas can we infer about The Headmaster?
"One-third of the building was reserved for the Headmaster and his family. The rest of it housed the boys, about one hundred and fifty of them altogether, if I remember rightly."
"As we got out of the taxi, I saw the whole driveway abustle with small boys and their parents and their trunks and their tuck-boxes, and a man I took to be the Headmaster was swimming around among them shaking everybody by the hand."
What is he is selfish, and also he is manipulative. Or, he is trying to convince people he is nicer, and more understanding, than he really is.
For the rest of his life, what feelings did Dahl have towards smaller animals--and what moment encouraged him to have these feelings?
What is he cared for and appreciated them, because of how Arkle took care of his frog even when food from home stopped coming in for the students.