Billy+Sloane+I+Am+David

MEMORIES

In the movie ‘Happy Feet’ we are shown the responsibility father penguins are given when caring for ‘the egg.’ Memphis accidently drops Mumble before he hatched resulting in feelings of guilt when Mumble turns out different to all the other baby penguins. Write about a time you have experienced a similar situation in which you were given a huge amount of responsibility. How did you feel? How did it end? 1 page When I was four my Mum and Dad had let me roam free in a rumpus room at one of their friends places. In this particular rumpus room there was a pool table (big mistake Mum and Dad) and I decide to find out what this ‘pool table’ does. So I circle the pool table a couple of times and find the entrance where the balls come out (I didn’t know that) and I put my head inside it to see what it was for. I couldn’t figure out what the big hole was for so I finish up. As I’m pulling my head out I realise my head has become stuck (yes I know somehow I have gained some brain cells since then). So now I have my head stuck inside a pool table feeling pretty stupid knowing that I’m going to be in big trouble when I get out of this, //if// I get out of this! About ten minutes later I’m starting to worry that my mum and dad have forgotten about me, I’ve been trying to get my head out of this hole but all I have succeeded in doing is making my neck and ears feel very sore. Five minutes later I hear the relaxed footsteps of my mum to come check up on me (oh no here it comes). Suddenly the footsteps stop and my mum calls out to my dad and his friends to come quick. In the end they had to use grease from their grill to slip my head out of the pool table and what came after was a world of guilt and feeling extremely dumb.

//HEART SONG// Look at this photograph Every time I do it makes me laugh How did our eyes get so red And what the hell is on Joey's head

And this is where I grew up I think the present owner fixed it up I never knew we'd ever went without The second floor is hard for sneaking out

And this is where I went to school Most of the time had better things to do Criminal record says I broke in twice I must have done it half a dozen times

I wonder if It's too late Should I go back and try to graduate Life's better now then it was back then If I was them I wouldn't let me in

Oh oh oh Oh god I

Every memory of looking out the back door I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor It's hard to say it, time to say it Goodbye, goodbye

Every memory of walking out the front door I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for It's hard to say it, time to say it Goodbye, goodbye

Remember the old arcade Blew every dollar that we ever made The cops hated us hangin' out They say somebody went and burned it down

We used to listen to the radio And sing along with every song we know We said someday we'd find out how it feels To sing to more than just the steering wheel

Kim's the first girl I kissed I was so nervous that I nearly missed She's had a couple of kids since then I haven't seen her since god knows when

Oh oh oh Oh god I

Every memory of looking out the back door I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor It's hard to say it, time to say it Goodbye, goodbye

Every memory of walking out the front door I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for It's hard to say it, time to say it Goodbye, goodbye

I miss that town I miss the faces You can't erase You can't replace it I miss it now I can't believe it

So hard to stay Too hard to leave it

If I could I relive those days I know the one thing that would never change

Every memory of looking out the back door I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor It's hard to say it, time to say it Goodbye, goodbye

Every memory of walking out the front door I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for It's hard to say it, time to say it Goodbye, goodbye

Look at this photograph Every time I do it makes me laugh Every time I do it makes me  What Nickelback means Nickelback is talking about being his pictures with his friends and how they were always stoned  Why I chose this song I chose this song because it reminds me of my dad and all the photographs that I had taken with him. All the good times I had with him before he passed away and how hard it was to cope with his passing. I have a very important picture that sits on my bedside table next to my clock and it is of my dad sitting on his ride on mower with his red cap on smiling like he always did. Most of the time he used to take me on it with him and I’d wear his overly large ear muffs and he pretended to let me drive it and at the end of the mowing we would play in the cut up grass. 

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====** Read the Following Information and then answer the questions at the end in full sentences in your wiki. ** //**BACKGROUND- What life was like in Europe after World War II. It will help you understand the** // **//world David travels through in order to find his way home. //** After World War II ended in 1945, much of Europe lay in ruins. Cities, rural areas, communications, and transportation systems were destroyed. Over fifty million people were dead, including over six million Jews, many of whom had been murdered in Nazi concentration camps. Led by the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, the Allied forces had worked together to defeat dictator Adolph Hitler’s Germany and Germany’s ally, Japan, along with other Axis countries in their bid to take over the world. But almost immediately after the War, relations between Allied countries began to fall apart. By the end of World War II the Soviet Union had driven German soldiers back to Germany. However, Soviet soldiers were still in many Eastern European countries. The leader of the Soviet Union, dictator Joseph Stalin had promised the Allies that as soon as possible he would allow free elections in these Eastern European nations and withdraw his soldiers. But right after the War, Joseph Stalin broke his promise. The Soviet soldiers did not withdraw, and by 1948, every Eastern European country was under the control of the Soviet Union. The government of the Soviet Union was //communist //, which comes from the word “communal,” meaning “of the group.” Communists believe that practicing religion and holding private property should be forbidden. The communist government of the Soviet Union did not believe in a free press. Disagreement by citizens with the government was against the law, and people could be put in prison if their beliefs were different from what the government wanted people to believe. The rights of individuals did not matter. In practice, the government of the Soviet Union was a dictatorship of the proletariat ( //proletariat //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> means “the poorest class of working people”). A very small group of leaders controlled the lives of all citizens. In countries with Communist governments, the government owned all factories and workplaces. There was no independent economy, no independent newspapers, no independent courts, and no independent legislature. But now, after World War II, on one side was the United States and Great Britain and on the other was the Soviet Union. In fact, on March 5, 1946 the Prime Minister of Great Britain,Winston Churchill, made a famous speech at Westminster College, in Fulton,Missouri.With United States President Harry Truman in the audience,Winston Churchill warned about Eastern Europe becoming separated from the rest of Europe because of what the Soviet Union was doing. To make his point more forcefully, Churchill used the image of a giant iron curtain coming down on Eastern European countries, separating them from the rest of Europe: **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, //**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. //**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient //**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">states of Central and Eastern Europe.Warsaw, Berlin, //**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Vienna, and Sofia; all these famous cities lie in what //**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> **//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">I must call the Soviet sphere.” //** <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Behind the “iron curtain,” the Soviet Union was establishing repressive governments and labor camps. In labor camps, people who were thought to disagree withvthe government were imprisoned, forced to do hard work, tortured, and sometimes even put to death for their beliefs. In the year 1952, the year in which the film //<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">I Am David //<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> takes place, over two and a half million people were in labor camps in the Soviet Union. In Bulgaria alone, between 1948-1954 there were 99 forced labor camps. This is the backdrop against which the story //<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">I Am David //<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> takes place. <span style="display: block; font-size: 400%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;">QUESTION S <span style="display: block; font-size: 26px; line-height: 39px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;"> **Due Date: 1st June, 2009** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;"> ====

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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;">Answering these questions will help you to understand some of the perils involved in the journey David makes to find his way home. You will need a dictionary.Write your answers in complete senteces. 1.Around 50 million people died in World War II, 6 million of them being Jews 2. A dictator is a person who is a person exercising absolute power. 3. Aldolf Hitler (Germany) and Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union) were the two dictators mentioned in this text. 4. The Prime Minister of Great Britan Winston Churchhill first used the expression 'iron curtian' meaning that the 'soviet sphere' is cut off from the rest of the world. 5. A labour camp is a place where Joseph Stalin sent people who dissagreed with the Soviet Union government. I think David was born into a labour camp after his parents were captured for disagreeing with the government. 6. Who where the allies of Gemany and who were the allies of Great Britan? Japan were the allies of Germany and the United States and the Soviet Union====== <span style="display: block; font-size: 200%; color: rgb(15,15,199); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;">**__CHAPTER ONE -__ <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);">__DUE 04/06/09__ <span style="font-size: 18px; color: rgb(0,0,0); line-height: 18px;">__Vocabulary__: Look up the following words and give the dictionary definitions ** <span style="display: block; font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;">repulsive: something disgusting - thicket: a group of dense bushes or small trees - grating: a fixed frame of bars or covering to exclude persons, animals or objects while admitting light and air - catastrophe: any misfortune, mishap or failure - dwell: to live or stay as a permanent resident - dozed – sleep for a short amount of time <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

1. As in most novels, the first chapter introduces the character and sets the scene for what is to follow. But what you are told in the first chapter of I Am David is some- what mysterious, even outright confusing. A snippet of information here, a tantali- zing bit there. Why does the author do that? Why doesn't she tell you outright who David is and where he is? The author does this because he //wants// you to read on to find out whom and where David is so that you feel you need to read the whole book to find out who David is. 2. Why does David hate the man? Does this hatred seem justified, considering what the man is doing for him? Explain. I think the man is a guard who has treated David a little bit differently but obviously the author has put our view in that of David’s and David hasn’t given the man a name so that suggests that he hates him. 3. Look up the word paranoid. Would you call David paranoid? Explain by giving examples that might explain David's odd behaviour. I would not say that David is paranoid, just cautious. He has lost all trust for the race of man so he is entitled to be a little bit uncertain of anything outside of the camp. 4. In the truck, on his way to Salonica, David experiences a moment of intense fear. How does this sudden fear come about? How does David conquer it? Who is Johannes? What does he symbolize? Why does Johannes "stay behind in Salonica"? David suddenly realizes that he doesn’t know how he is going to get back out of the truck, the way David conquers that fear is by finally thinking about his only friend within the camp, (that was gunned down by a guard when David was younger) Johannes. Johannes was a French man who helped David a lot when he was younger but David had not thought about Johannes since the day he was shot but when David was in the truck he thought about Johannes and he wasn’t afraid anymore but when David came onto the shore of Italy he realized Johannes had stayed in Salonica and David did not know why and neither did we 5. Geographically, David has moved from wherever the camp is, to Italy. From where has he moved emotionally? He has started to love life and he has discovered what true beauty is and now he wants to stay free for as long as he can. 6. Make a short list, in point form, of the bits of information you have thus far received about David. <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">He is scared of the outside world <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">He calls the evil people //them// <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">David doesn’t know what he looks like therefore we don’t know what he looks like <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">He is a very brave child and is willing to do anything to ensure that he keeps his freedom
 * __<span style="font-size: 18pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Questions: __**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

<span style="display: block; font-size: 200%; color: rgb(5,5,194); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 200%; color: rgb(9,9,185); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;">__**CHAPTER TWO - <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);">DUE 04/06/09 **__ **<span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Vocabulary: Look up the following words and give the definitions ** <span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">intermingled:to mingle with one another - lithe: being flexible - irresolutely: doubtful - irksome: annoying - intervals: an interveining period of time - spurs: anything that goads impells or urges as to action speed or achievement - verge:the edge rim or margin of something - clamber: to climb with effort or difficulty - credit:commendation or honor given for some action, quality ect... - arancia: a type of orange - apfelsinen:German for orange - intricate: complex - passionate: having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling

<span style="font-size: 18pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· 3. Why had David thought at one time that he might be Jewish? David thought that he might be Jewish because he was in a concentration camp full of Jewish people 4. Why had there been scarcely any difference between the men and the women in the camp? Find an image showing what people in the concentration camps looked like and upload it to your wiki site. men looked more deprived of food than women. 5. What is strange about David's eyes? They are a different colour but David realizes all the Italians have brownish eyes.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> exhausting: - terrain - dispassionately - disconcerted - brevity - anxious - awkward - ensnare - sinister - genuine - conspicuous - lorries - hostage - daft - succumbed <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * __<span style="font-size: 20.5pt; color: #0505c2; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">CHAPTERS THREE & FOUR __**<span style="font-size: 20.5pt; color: #0505c2; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> **__<span style="font-size: 20.5pt; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">DUE 05/06/09 __**<span style="font-size: 20.5pt; color: #0505c2; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 13.5pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * <span style="font-size: 18pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Vocabulary: Look up the following words and give the definitions **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">

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**<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Questions **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU;"> 1. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Why does David feel he still has to obey the man and go north to Denmark, even though the man can no longer control him? <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU;">David feels unsure about whether he should follow the man’s orders because after all he was one of //them// but the man has helped him this far because all the things he said turned out to be true so David decides to keep going in the direction of Denmark because he has no idea where he would go otherwise <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU;"> 2. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">After losing his compass, David decided that he must have a God. (a) What purpose would a God serve? To help David through troubling times (b) What kind of God does he select for himself? What factors are considered by David as he makes his choice? David decides to choose the god of the green pastures and the still waters in favour of what Johannes had said about someone also called David (c) Which factor do you think is the most important to him? Explain. The factor that is most important to David in choosing his god is that he must choose the right one so that he can be lead in the right direction. (d) Read David's prayer and tell what he expects from God. He does not expect anything from god because he has nothing to give back but if there is one thing that he wants it is to stay free. (e) Compare his God with those he rejects. What does this tell you about David? <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> It tells us that david is not expecting anything in return for his choosing of his god and he knows that if his god is really truly the right god he will help David though all he needs to be free <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU;"> 3. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">When David helps the couple he feels: "... a strong impulse to do something quite voluntary for another person... It felt almost like possessing something, something so big that he could give some of it away." (p.63) Explain what he means with that. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> It means he has a will to help people <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU;"> 4. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">David has a way of deciding if a country is a free one or not. What is his method? Do you think it is a good one? Explain. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> He checks whether there are people like //them// around <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU;"> 5. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Why is it that David cannot teach himself to smile. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Because he has never known how to and he has never needed to. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU;"> 6. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">David, till he meets Angelo, had thought that good people must also be clever. Why did he think so and why was he puzzled? <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> David thinks all good people are smart because all the good people he has dealt with so far have been smart and all the people that have been evil have been not so smart <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU;"> 7. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Why had the prisoners in the camp said: "Don't tell the boy anything they may try to worm out of him afterwards"? they don’t want to give //them// a reason to have to torture David when all else fails. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: Calibri; msolist: Ignore; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; msobidithemefont: minor-latin; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU;"> 8. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">When David meets up with the mean little boy, he doesn't fight back. Explain why he doesn't and why he compares the boy with the camp guards. He doesn’t fight back because if he did so he would be lowering his standards to that of the boys, he compares the boy to the guards because like the guards the boy has a brutal and unforgiving nature just because the boy is different <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">.

**CHAPTERS FIVE & SIX**

 * Vocabulary**

lather: foam or froth made by soap - gracious: pleasantly kind, benevolent and courteous - deception: the act of deceiving - absurd: utterly or obviously senseless - rebuffed: a blunt or abrupt rejection - contempt: the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean or vile. - wretched: very unfortunate in condition or circumstance - sorrow: distress caused by loss, affliction or dissapointment.


 * Questions**

1. Why does Chapter 5 start with an analysis of the word beautiful? David is discovering new ways to put things other than just one word of meaning so that is why he has put an analisis of the word beautiful in the first paragraph.

2. Why did the book have to be published before 1917, so that they couldn't have made it up? Check what famous historical event - "that shook the world" - took place in that year. in 1917 America waged war on Germany so for the book to be true it had to be before the Germans took over.

3. David's hatred for Carlo is described as pure. What does that mean? Are David's actions toward Carlo "normal" for a twelve-year old boy? Explain. David has a pure hatred for Carlo because he used brutal force against David in order to overpower him and that is a trait that the soldiers at the labour camp used and david hated the soldiers with all of his soul.

4. Why are Andrea's questions more threatening to David than Maria's questions? Andrea is too curious whereas Maria just asks Questions about david good nature

5. Do you think the children are aware that David is different? Explain, using examples from the chapters. the children, I think, know that David is diffrent but don't want to admit it but they have always know ever since he rescued Maria. because he refused a ride back to their house so they could reward him for his good deed.

6. Why does chapter 6 end with a discussion on the meaning of sorrow. What is the meaning of sorrow according to Signora Bang?the meaning of sorrow according to Signora Bang is that all sorrow has a life (a begining, a middle an and end) and when the sorrow dies there is always a person to remember it.


 * Directions**

Determine what the characters listed feel about each of the following topics. You may use quotes, paraphrases, or inferences (logical conclusions) in your responses.

1. **Escape from the Camp**

a. David. He is happy but thinks it will be short lived because surely he will be caught and shot. He is also wondering why the man has let him go and whether it is a trick or not.

b. the Man. He is unsure about whether to let David go because after all he is a German soldier and the Nazis hated Jews but the man had loved David's mother and that is why he must let David go.

2. **Understanding**

a. the priest and the villagers (pp.48-49) They are unsure about where David comes from and whether the should ask him about where he comes from. They also think that he is a strange boy who doesn't look like he belongs.

b. David. David doesn't know why they want to ask him questions but he knows that he has to get out of there as quickly as possible.

3. **Helping out**

a. the English couple.They are very happy that David is helping them but don't know why he won't take their reward money.

4. **Gratitude**

a. the di Levana del 'Varchi parents. They are very thankful that David has saved their daughter but don't know why he won't come home with them in order to thank him properly.

b. David. He is very happy that he rescued Maria all on his own without God helping him and he doesn't know why they want to take him back to their house.

5.Un**derstanding David**

a. the di Levana del 'Varchi parents. They don't know who David is or where he has came from and therefor think he should leave. Also they think that he is having a bad influence on their children.

b. Signora Bang. She understands that David wants to be on his way in order to get where he is going and therefor lets him go.

Europe in the 1950's

In the movie //I Am David,// the guard tells David, “You must get this envelope to Denmark. First, head south to Salonika and hide on a ship that’s going to Italy.When you arrive there, travel north as far as you can.” Locating information about where David traveled on the map provided will give you a better understanding of the difficultyof David’s journey to freedom. His journey begins when he escapes the labor camp in Belene, Bulgaria.

In the movie ‘Happy Feet’ we are shown the responsibility father penguins are given when caring for ‘the egg.’ Memphis accidently drops Mumble before he hatched resulting in feelings of guilt when Mumble turns out different to all the other baby penguins. Write about a time you have experienced a similar situation in which you were given a huge amount of responsibility. How did you feel? How did it end? 1 page When I was four my Mum and Dad had let me roam free in a rumpus room at one of their friends places. In this particular rumpus room there was a pool table (big mistake Mum and Dad) and I decide to find out what this ‘pool table’ does. So I circle the pool table a couple of times and find the entrance where the balls come out (I didn’t know that) and I put my head inside it to see what it was for. I couldn’t figure out what the big hole was for so I finish up. As I’m pulling my head out I realise my head has become stuck (yes I know somehow I have gained some brain cells since then). So now I have my head stuck inside a pool table feeling pretty stupid knowing that I’m going to be in big trouble when I get out of this, //if// I get out of this! About ten minutes later I’m starting to worry that my mum and dad have forgotten about me, I’ve been trying to get my head out of this hole but all I have succeeded in doing is making my neck and ears feel very sore. Five minutes later I hear the relaxed footsteps of my mum to come check up on me (oh no here it comes). Suddenly the footsteps stop and my mum calls out to my dad and his friends to come quick. In the end they had to use grease from their grill to slip my head out of the pool table and what came after was a world of guilt and feeling extremely dumb.