Family
Give 3 examples of adverbs
Slowly, badly, quietly etc
Are you serious right now?
Rhetorical question
I can work out big sums in my head, my best friend sounds like a flower and my teacher is as sweet as honey.
Matilda
What is the day that Josie calls National Wog Day?
Tomato Day
List FIVE descriptive adjectives that would be appropriate descriptions for this noun using all five senses : breakfast
Miss J decides if answers are correct
50% of people voted yes.
Statistics/facts
A barn spider who lives on lives on a web overlooking a piglet's enclosure on a farm. She weaves words into her web, in an attempt to try and save the piglet, Wilbur, from slaughter.
Charlotte's Web
What does the word illegitimate mean? Why is this topic so important for Josie?
Born to parents who aren't married. She thinks it stands in her way all the time and that people are always judging her for not being legitimate.
What are the main reasons that Josie make feel like she doesn't fit in at school?
Her illegitimacy She is born in Australia, but her grandparents were Italian- she feels caught between the two She is on a scholarship- her family isn't wealthy/important
It can tell how a thing looks, tastes, sounds, feels, or smells; It can tell about size, number, color, shape, or weight. What is this called?
A descriptive adjective
Soft, silky and smooth
Alliteration
I have a little blue jacket and love eating the vegetables from Mr McGregor’s garden.
Peter Rabbit
What happened to Jacob's Mum? What does Josie say would happen to her if she lost her own mum?
She died of cancer. Josie says she'd "die" if her mother died.
Which incident helps to show Josie that a lot of girls at the school look up to her? Who points this out to her?
The walkathon- when she leaves. Sister Louise explains how influential she really is at school.
Name the proper adjective formed from the proper noun in parentheses to complete the sentence.
"A ___________skier won the downhill race." (Switzerland)
Swiss
"I am dying to get to this English exam"
Hyperbole
I catch dreams in a butterfly net and then store them in jars in my home in Giant Country. I then share the dreams with children like my friend Sophie.
The BFG
Why do you think Nonna and Christina have never really got along?
Nonna felt she had to always take her husband's side to protect Christina. She was so worried that he would tell everyone that Christina wasn't his child that she ended up allowing him to treat Christina badly all the time. Nonna's guilt over her own behaviour also makes her critical of her daughter and how she raises Josie.
What happens between Ivy and Josie as a result of John's death and funeral?
They are able to relate to each other and finally start to be nice to each other. Josie suggests they get coffee if they bump into each other at Uni.
Change the proper noun to a proper adjective:
Greece
Greek
"Social Distancing"
Oxymoron
I started the week eating some fruit and by the end of the week I was eating muffins, pizza and pickle before transforming and getting wings
The Very Hungry Caterpillar