The Oricle
Generals Die In Bed
1. Use each of the following words correctly in a sentence.
Accoutrements Stealthily Parapet Detonation Insufferable Malignantly Grotesque Querulously Riotous Apprehensively Incessantly
2. Choose one word that you are still feeling a little uncomfortable with. Use this word and create a “Word Wall” document. Show the teacher when you are finished. When he/she approves, print and put up on the wall.
3. What is ironic about the troop’s actual departure from Bonaventure Station?
4. Find 3 examples of similes used by the author. 5. Beside each character’s name, write two pieces of information we learn them in the opening chapters of the novel.
Brown Fry Captain Clark Anderson
6. What is the cause of the fight between Cleary and Broadbent and what does their fight suggest about life in the trenches?
7. What reward is offered for soldiers who volunteer for a brigade raid?
8. Why is Bethune considered to be a soldier’s haven?
9. In a paragraph, explain the meaning, significance, and context of one of the following statements:
We have learned who our enemies are – the lice, some of our officers, and Death. Of the first two we speak continually, the last we rarely refer to. Strangely, we never refer to the Germans as our enemy.’ ‘In the distance the rumble of guns is faint but persistent like the subdued throbbing of violins in a symphony. I am still here, it says. You may sleep quietly at night in sweet smelling hay, you may lie sweating under a tree after drill and marvel at the fine tracings on a trembling leaf over your heads, but I am here and you must come back to my howling madness, to my senseless volcanic fury. I am the link that binds you to your future, it mutters.’ ‘I guess it is because we do not want to die – because we hang on so pitifully to life as it slips away. Our lives are stolen – taken from us unawares.’
1. Use each of the following words correctly in a sentence.
Accoutrements Stealthily Parapet Detonation Insufferable Malignantly Grotesque Querulously Riotous Apprehensively Incessantly
2. Choose one word that you are still feeling a little uncomfortable with. Use this word and create a “Word Wall” document. Show the teacher when you are finished. When he/she approves, print and put up on the wall.
3. What is ironic about the troop’s actual departure from Bonaventure Station?
4. Find 3 examples of similes used by the author. 5. Beside each character’s name, write two pieces of information we learn them in the opening chapters of the novel.
Brown Fry Captain Clark Anderson
6. What is the cause of the fight between Cleary and Broadbent and what does their fight suggest about life in the trenches?
7. What reward is offered for soldiers who volunteer for a brigade raid?
8. Why is Bethune considered to be a soldier’s haven?
9. In a paragraph, explain the meaning, significance, and context of one of the following statements:
We have learned who our enemies are – the lice, some of our officers, and Death. Of the first two we speak continually, the last we rarely refer to. Strangely, we never refer to the Germans as our enemy.’ ‘In the distance the rumble of guns is faint but persistent like the subdued throbbing of violins in a symphony. I am still here, it says. You may sleep quietly at night in sweet smelling hay, you may lie sweating under a tree after drill and marvel at the fine tracings on a trembling leaf over your heads, but I am here and you must come back to my howling madness, to my senseless volcanic fury. I am the link that binds you to your future, it mutters.’ ‘I guess it is because we do not want to die – because we hang on so pitifully to life as it slips away. Our lives are stolen – taken from us unawares.’