SKELLIG #2

Written by David Almond

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When you work:

- Use full sentences in every answer

- Check the story carefully for your answers

- Be ready to explain your answers

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Week 2 – 3: Chapters 16 to  31

Chapter 16:

1. Michael tells the person in the shed about how sick the baby is and asks him to think about her. Why does he do this? He does it so he can get better cause he thinks the person is an angel      √

Chapter 17:

1. How do we know that Michael and Mina are becoming friends?  Because they were telling secrets that nobody else knows      √

2. What is pneumatization?  He presence of air caverns in the bone       √

3. What is Mina teaching Michael to do?Listen deeper        √

Chapter 18:

1. Who is Arthur? is arthritis          √

2. What does Michael have to do to help the man in the shed with Arthur? keep moving or get a doctor      √

Chapters 19, 20 and 21:

1. How does Mina react to the man in the shed?  scared and felt sorry for him       √

2. What is their plan?  to take him to another place to get better      √

Chapters 22, 23 and 24:

1. How does Mina feel about the man?  worried but sure he will get well      √

2. How do we know this?   Because  she has been waited to see him and trust him

3. Why does Mina apologise for being sarcastic to Michael? Because she doesn't want him to feel bad      √

4. Why does Michael look out of the shutters to make sure that the world is really there?  Be thinks he is in a dream    √

Chapter 25:

1. Why are Michael’s family so sad? The baby is  in a glass  cage      √    

2. What does Michael keep hearing so that he can keep it safe? He keeps hearing the baby's heart and breathing      √

Chapter 26, 27 and 28:

1. What is an archaeopteryx?  A dinosaur that flies       √

2. What does Mina think that the archaeopteryx developed into?  It begins to evolutions into a bird      √

3. What do Coot and Leakey think of Mina? They think she is distracting       √

4. Why does Michael argue with Coot and Leakey?Because they don’t want them to  talk about Mina that way    

5. Write down three reasons that Michael and his friends are growing apart.

i) Michal hangs out with mina more than them  

ii)They have been arguing

iii)  Coot and leaky don't like mina

Chapter 29:

1. Explain why Michael and Mina are having such a big argument?They think michael's friends hate them    √

Chapter 30:

1. Why does Michael now need to rely on Mina if he wants to see Skellig? Cause she has Skelligs key      √

2. Think of TWO reasons that the author repeats ‘DANGER’ in this part of the story.because it is a very dangerous place     Two reasons, please.

Chapter 31:

1. How does Michael know that the baby is still alive? Cause he can still hear it heart beating       √

2. What are the owls doing for Skellig?They are feeding him         √

3. What was happening to Michael and Mina as they were spinning with Skellig? They were growing wings     √

4. PREDICT: What has happened to make Michael’s dad so upset? He is growing wings

5. PREDICT: What do you think will happen in the rest of the story? Why? they will grow there wings bigger and the baby will die    How sad.

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