Chapter 10: A Task for the Brains DH

Take note of 10 new words. After reading you are going to use this site: http://www.puzzle-maker.com/CW/ to generate a crossword. Post it on your blog TODAY!

TRY THIS SITE, PLEASE!!!

The Demon Headmaster, Character traits

 

Read chapters 6 and 7 and complete this handout on character traits, HERE

 

List of words to describe characters, HERE

Guessing meaning in context

This strategy is very useful to improve your levels of comprehension when interacting with a text. It requires concentration and the ability to infer based on the information presented around the unknown word.

Study these presentations:

ParaphrasingPrep.ppt

Guessing vocabulary from context from UNIVERSIDAD LATINA DE COSTA RICA

Practice 1, here

Practice 2, here

 

The Demon Headmaster, Chapter 5, Guessing in Context

Young Sherlock Holmes, Reading into writing activity

 

This is your homework (April 8th). Follow the instructions in the link below, create a google doc and post the link on your blog!

Reading into writing

The Demon Headmaster, Reading into writing 1

 

This is your homework (April 8th). Follow the instructions in the link below, create a google doc and post the link on your blog!

 

Reading into writing 1

Interview to Andrew Lane (Author of “Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud”

 

 

You describe yourself as a ‘lifelong Sherlock Holmes fan’. How did your passion for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s books start?

 I remember buying the first Sherlock Holmes novel — ‘A Study in Scarlet’ — at a Church jumble sale in East London when I was about 12 years old. I became hooked on Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories straight away, and I got as many of his books as I could out of my local library, and then started buying them. What I can’t remember now is why I bought the book. I must have known something about Sherlock Holmes already, and wanted to find out more, but I don’t know where that initial impulse came from.

What does your Sherlock collection contain? Do have any memorabilia items?

 Mostly I collect works of fiction which use Sherlock Holmes as a character, and I have several hundred of those, but I also have a sideline in collecting books of literary criticism which analyse the Sherlock Holmes stories. The ones that especially interest me are the ones which assume that Sherlock Holmes is in some sense a real person and then try to work out whether he went to Cambridge or Oxford University by analysing the attendance records between 1860 and 1880 looking for someone with the surname “Holmes”.

There are some criticism by conservative fans, what is your opinion about it? Is there anything you would like to tell them?

 I understand the criticisms by conservative fans, and if someone else was writing this series then I would probably feel the same way. The
problem with conservative fans is that they want everything to be exactly the same as it was when Conan Doyle was writing, but the world and fictional styles have moved on. I would point out to them, however, that I am trying desperately not to contradict anything that Conan Doyle did, and that I am attempting to explain how Sherlock Holmes came to develop all of those skills that Conan Doyle told us he had – the boxing, the fencing, the martial arts, the chemistry, the violin playing… It stands to reason that Sherlock Holmes had to learn those things somewhere, and, more importantly, he had to have a reason for learning them all. Conservative Sherlockians tend to assume that Sherlock Holmes was either never a child or that he was like the adult version when he was a child. I just can’t see how that can be true.

ACTIVITIES

 

1.- What would be a suitable definition for the underlined words?

Addicted	The science that deals with the composition and properties of substances  and various elementary forms of matter.	Conjunction that means “If”.	Trying to do.	Matters or events worthy to be remembered.
A second occupation.		Sale of unwanted or used things.	The number of people present at a certain place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.- Answer the following questions

 1.- How did Andrew became hooked on Sherlock Holmes stories?

2.- Was Sherlock Holmes a real person?

3.- Why has Andrew been criticized by some of Arthur Conan Doyle’s fans?

 

 

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DH, Dinah and the Computer Club

The Deamon Headmaster and the Prime Minister’s Brain is the second book of the series written by Gillian Cross. When these books were turned into a BBC series, the Prime Minister’s Brain was part of chapters 4 to 6. These are the first minutes of chapter 4. Watch them carefully to answer the questions below. After checking your responses, read  chapters 1-3  and compare with the TV series.

1. What is the purpose of this SPLAT’S meeting?

2. What do they do at the computer club? Who likes it?

3. What is the name of the computing competition?

4. What is the name of the computer game?

5. Who invites Dinah to participate?

6. Was it easy for Dinah to win the competition? How do you know?

7. Who sent the card to Dinah? What does it say?

8. When and where will the finals take place?

9. What does Dinah need to go to the finals?

10. How does Dinah react when her mom says that she can’t afford the new laptop?

11. What are three solutions offered by Dinah to buy the laptop?

12. What did mom say?