week4+jan23-27

Anticipation Guide Chapter 9 pages 58-68 __A Long Way Gone__ Name: __Isaiah Mitchell__

Mark an X by those that you think are true. After reading, write the page and the paragraph where you found the answer. To get credit, you must write the page and paragraph where you found the answer as well as the part of the sentence.

______ 1. Ishmael was accustomed to the ocean and was an expert fisherman from his days going to the ocean with his grandfather. Page: _______ Sentence: _____________________________________________________________________________________

______ 2. Fishermen came and attacked them with machetes. Page: 60 Sentence: ___”the fisherman jabbed us with the flat edges of their weapons until we fell on the ground” ______ 3. The boys knew 10 local languages. Page: 63 Sentence: _____” I knew Alhaji, Kanei, and Musa from my former secondary school.”

______ 4. Young people were assumed to be guilty because of the war. Page: 60 Sentence: “upon hearing this,they had armed themselves and hid, waiting to defend their homes and protect their famiy”

______ 5. The boys felt constantly in danger wherever they went in Sierra Leone.

Page: 59 Sentence:” our first guess was that the rebels might have been there”

______ 6. The boys lost their shoes and burnt their feet on the sand. Page: 61 Sentence: ”each time I lifted my feet, the veins in them tightened and I felt the sand particles digging into my bleeding soles

_____ 7. No one would take the boys in because of the great risks that they might actually be child soldiers. Page: 59 Sentence: _____________________________________________________________________________________

_____ 8. If it wasn’t for hip hop music, Ishmael Beah and his friends would not be alive today. Page: _______ Sentence: _____________________________________________________________________________________