Satellite is the main character,heis thirteen years old, he is
known for his installation of dishes and antennasfor local villages
who are looking for news ofSaddam Husseinand
for his limited knowledge of English. He is the dynamic and manipulative leader of the orphan children who follow him, he organizes the dangerous but necessary sweeping and clearing of theminefields, which were paid at a low price.
He
falls in love for an orphan girl named Agrin, she is a very sad girl who traveling with her disabled, but smart
brother Hengov, who appears to have the gift ofclairvoyance, making people think he can predict the future. Agrin has a blind toddler son named Riga, who Agrin gave birth to after she wasgang rapedby
Iraqi Arab soldiers. In Agrin and Hengov's village, the
girls had been killed after being raped, while the boys and their families had
been killed as well. Hengov's arms had been shot and
soldiers attempted to drown both children. Because of these circumstances, Agrin
is unable to reciprocate Satellite's feelings for her.
Agrin tries to kill the child on multiple occasions,
then she ties him to a rock and she drowns him in the lake. When her
brother sees in him dream that Riga is drowning, he hurries out of
the tent crying and trying to save him. Meanwhile, Agrin commits suicide.
domingo, 24 de marzo de 2013
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN
WILD
Hushpuppy is an intrepid six year old girl who lives
with her father, Wink, in "Bathtub", a fictional bayou community on
an island surrounded by water .She takes care of some pets such as pigs,
chickens and dogs, some of them will become later in her food she says that the
children who don´t have any parents live in the forest and they eat grass. She
has to cook because she lives alone in a poor house, one day she causes a fire
and her house burns. At school her teacher has taught her that all animals are
flesh and all, including humans can be feast of others. Wink is a heavy
drinker, who verbally abuses her since his wife left him and teaches her to survive
by herself; he trains her for when the day comes that he can not protect her.
Hushpuppy's force is tested when Wink contracts a mysterious illness and a
storm flooded the community with the help of a nearby dam. In the rich
imagination of hushpuppy these events are connected to the melting of the
icebergs that free archaic beast, giant boar called "Aurochs" with
bull horns. Despite attempts to rescue the community from the government,
Hushpuppy, Wink, and other residents return to "Bathtub". With the
arrival of the Aurochs and the deteriorating health of his father, hushpuppy looks
for her lost mother.
ACTIVITY FOR 8THGRADE
A.Answer these questions (complete answers):
1.Where
does Hushpuppy live?
2.Which
animals does she take care of?
3.What
is the name of her father?
4.How
old is Hushpuppy?
5.How
do they call the beasts?
B.Complete these sentences in Simple Present, use the verbs in
parenthesis:
1.Wink
______sick. (To be).
2.Huhpuppy
________for her lost mother. (Look).
3.The
Aurochs _________ to Bathtub. (Arrive).
4.She
_______ her own food. (Cook).
5.They
_________to Bathtub. (Return).
C.Write the above sentences in Present Continuos Tense.
D.Study the vocabulary of the reading for next class.
ACTIVITY FOR 9THGRADE
A.Answer these questions (Complete answers):
1.How
is Hushpuppy?
2.Who
does she live with?
3.How
is Bathtub?
4.How
is Wink?
5.How
are the beasts?
B.Complete these sentences in simple past tense, use the verbs in
parenthesis:
1.She
________the stove with a blowtorch. (Ignite).
2.The
Hushpuppy’s house _________fire. (Caught).
3.Wink
______a heavy drinker. (To be).
4.His
wife ________him. (Leave).
5.Hushpuppy,
her father and other residents __________to Bathtub. (Return).
C.Write the above sentences in Past Continuos Tense.
D.Study the vocabulary of the reading for next class.
ACTIVITY FOR 10THGRADE
A.Answer these questions (complete answers).
1.Where
did Hushpuppy live?
2.Which
animals did she take care of?
3.What
was the name of her father?
4.How
old was Hushpuppy?
5.How
did they call the beasts?
6.How
was Bathtub?
7.How
was Wink?
8.How
were the beasts?
9.Who
abused her verbally?
10.Why
did Hushpuppy look for her mother?
B.Complete these sentences in Past progressive, use the verbs in
parenthesis:
1.Wink ______sick. (To be).
2.Huhpuppy ________for her lost
mother. (Look).
3.The Aurochs _________ to Bathtub.
(Arrive).
4.She _______ her own food. (Cook).
5.They _________to Bathtub. (Return).
C.Write the above sentences in Present Perfect Tense.
D.Study the vocabulary of the reading for next class.
ACTIVITY FOR
11TH GRADE
A.Answer these questions (complete answers).
1.Where had Hushpuppy lived?
2.Which animals had she taken care of?
3.What was the name of her father?
4.How old was Hushpuppy?
5.How had they called the beasts?
6.How had Bathtub been?
7.How had Wink been?
8.How were the beasts?
9.Who had abused her verbally?
10.Why had Hushpuppy looked for her
mother?
B.Complete these sentences in Past Perfect, use the verbs in parenthesis:
1.Wink ______sick. (To be).
2.Huhpuppy ________for her lost
mother. (Look).
3.The Aurochs _________ to Bathtub.
(Arrive).
4.She _______ her own food. (Cook).
5.They _________to Bathtub. (Return).
C.Write the above sentences in Simple Future Tense.
D.Study the vocabulary of the reading for next class.
Maria Bennett, her husband Henry and their three sons Lucas, Tomas and
Simon are on holiday over Christmas at a tropical paradise resort inThailand. However,the
devastating 2004 tsunami, which occurred on 26 December 2004,
destroys the coastal zone, and they are swept up in the flood - a flood which
captures Maria searching for a lost page of a book against a glass window while
the rest of the family is near the pool.
Maria and Lucas are separated from the others and Maria's leg is badly
injured. At Maria's insistence, they rescue a small boy called Daniel who has
also been separated from his family. The three climb a tree in case a new wave
approaches. They are found by locals and taken to a hospital - Maria on a door
used as a stretcher. Maria, who is a doctor, is concerned about her leg, and
asks Lucas to tell her if it turns black. She encourages Lucas to see if he can
provide any help to the others. Lucas takes names from patients and searches
for their relatives. When he returns to Maria's bed she is not there, and due
to a mix-up, the hospital staff believes she has died and takes Lucas to a tent
where other children without families are being held; a phone call can be made,
but Lucas does not remember the number of his grandpa. In fact, Maria has
surgery on her torn chest and is later reunited with Lucas.
Elsewhere Henry, Thomas, and Simon are together and safe. Henry asks
Thomas to look after his little brother then places the children into a vehicle
full of tourists who are being taken to a safe place in the mountains, while he
keeps searching for Maria and Lucas. Later, Henry arrives in the mountains and
finds Thomas and Simon have been sent elsewhere. Communication facilities are
scarce, but another man, German tourist Karl, allows Henry to make a phone call
to his father-in-law Brian in the UK. Henry uses the phone only to break down
in the midst of the call. Maria and Lucas have not contacted the family, so
Henry doesn't know they have survived. Karl then volunteers to accompany Henry
to look for his wife and son.
Henry and Karl search for their missing families in various shelters and
hospitals before they arrive at the hospital where Maria and Lucas are.
Unbeknownst to all, the entire family is miraculously in the same place. Henry
walks past Maria's ward, and she appears to recognize his shadow against the
curtain of her ward, but is too weak to call out. Lucas spots his father
(recognizing his shorts and bloody legs) in the distance, but immediately loses
sight of him, and takes chase. Simon recognizes Lucas's voice when he shouts
for his father. Thomas and Simon leap off a truck transporting lost children
just in time to reunite with Lucas, and at the same moment Henry stumbles
across all three of his sons and Lucas tells him their mother is in the
hospital.
They find Maria, who appears to be on the verge of death and needs
immediate surgery. She survives the surgery, and the following day a
representative of their insurance company arrives to fly them to a hospital in
Singapore in a small plane. Lucas tells Maria that the boy they rescued,
Daniel, has been reunited with his father. As they take off, Maria is shown
viewing the devastation of the tsunami from the plane window, and she begins to
weep.
·Maria Bennett, an English woman and the mother of the Bennett family.
·Henry Bennett, a Scottish man and the father of the Bennett family.
·Lucas Bennett, the 13-year-old son of Maria and Henry.
·Tomas Bennett, the seven-and-a-half-year-old son of Maria and Henry.
·Simon Bennett, is, at the age of five, the youngest child of Maria and Henry.
·Karl Schweber, a German man trying
to find his wife Kathy and daughter Gina who joins Henry to find their
families.
·An elderly woman, a 74-year-old woman who talks to Tomas about the stars after the tsunami.
QUESTIONS:
1.Who were Lucas, Tomas and Simon?
2.At the time of the tsunami, where was
the Bennett Family?
3.When was the tsunami?
4.What was Maria doing?
5.Where was the rest of the family?
6.What happened to Maria and Lucas?
7.What happened to Maria’s leg?
8.Who was rescued by Maria and Lucas?
9.Why did they climb a tree?
10.Who
found Maria, Lucas and Daniel?
11.What
is Maria’s profession?
12.Why
Maria was worried about her leg?
13.What
did Lucas do to help people?
14.When he returns to Maria's bed she was not
there, what did he think about?
15.Elsewhere, what happened with Henry, Tomas
and Simon?
16.What
did Henry ask his son Tomas?
17.Did
Henry know his son and wife were alive?
18.Where
did Karl and Henry look for their families?
19.How
did Lucas recognize his father?
20.When
did Simon recognize Lucas´s voice?
21.What
did Simon and Tomas do to reunite with Lucas?
22.How
was Maria when they found her?
23.What
did Maria do when she saw the devastation of the tsunami?
domingo, 4 de noviembre de 2012
QUESTIONS GRADE 9TH
Who is the Author of “A Journey to
the Heart of Hearth”?
