Whale Pot Bay Chapter 6
Discussion TopicsChapter 6 - While trying to get rid of magpies Jake meets an odd hunter who's good with a rifle. This week complete the Sketch Pad while listening. Get a copy of the Sketch Pad printed out on A4. As you are listening fill in the gaps as you see fit Try to fill up the page. We will share all finished drawing on blogchat.
This week we are identifying different types of questions that can be used to demonstrate understanding of what we read.
Source website: http://www.slideshare.net/genytuition/comprehension-question-types.
Try your best to answer all the questions this week. When complete please fill in the survey on the Week 6 activity page.
Direct Questions: The answer will be stated plainly in the story.
Q.1.When are magpies dangerous?
Q.2.Who was driving the green car?
Inferential Questions: The answer is not plainly stated. You have to read between the lines and make your deduction.
Q.3.Why did Jake prefer Boxing Day to Christmas Day?
Q.4.Why did the bald man helped Jake by shooting the magpies?
Rephrasing Questions: Rewrite some aspect of the story in your own words.
Q.5.In your own words describe the current findings from the dig.
Q.6.Explain how Jake knew Western had been in the house and gained information about Pimmy.
Vocabulary Questions: Explain the meaning of a word or phrase.
Q.7. What is a post hole borer?
Q.8. Explain what is meant by vermin.
Q.9.A hunting blind is a cover device for hunters, designed to reduce the chance of detection. There are different types of blinds for different situations, such as deer blinds and duck blinds. Some are exceedingly simple, while others are complex. Another name for hunting blind is a _________.
Q1. The answer is when any moving object is within 20 metres to their nest.
ReplyDelete(That is, when magpies are in the breeding season!)
DeleteOne reason is because they might be defensive of their young.
(Q8) The word 'Vermin' means an annoying pest, such as rats or the mice that break into your house from a mouse hole.
ReplyDeleteif your within 20m
ReplyDeleteif your within 20m
ReplyDeleteif your within 20m
ReplyDeleteif your within 20m
ReplyDeleteif your within 20m
ReplyDeletewestern need to get the info about pimmy so he sent one of his workers in to get him distracted so then he could find info about pimmy.
ReplyDeletethe guy driving the green car is a guy who has camo gear and good with a sniper
ReplyDeleteQ.1 Magpies get dangerous with any moving object in with 20 meters to their nest because they protecting they babies
ReplyDeleteHave you every been attacked by magpies?
DeleteNot me, but I remember back in time a few years ago at the Michael Joseph Savage Memorial park at Mission Bay when my friend was jabbed by some angry magpies...
DeleteHe was suffering from severe bleeding because of those pesky sharp beaks that those birds have. He was then sent to hospital.
Don't worry, my friend Connor Southdon is alive and well.
And he still goes back to the place where he could have died.
Q1. Magpies are dangerous during mating season which is September.
ReplyDeleteQ8. Vermins are wild animals that destroy farmers crops eg. rabbits, rats and mice
Q.1 The magpies become dangerous when mating season cause of the eggs, they don't like people or animals disturbing or stealing their eggs.
ReplyDeleteQ.2 The person who was driving the green car is a hunter who wanted to help Jake shoot the magpies.
Q.8 Vermin is meant by wild animals who annoys/destroy farmers crops like magpies during mating season.
Q.3 Jake liked Boxing Day better than Xmas Day because he went to a picnic at Whale Pot Bay.
ReplyDeleteQ.1 They are dangerous because the magpies attack anything within 20 meters.
ReplyDeleteQ.2 A bald man was in the car. He was holding a gun, while dressed in green camouflage gear
Q9. The answer is a SILENCER.
ReplyDeleteQ.1. Anything that moves within 20 meters from their nest.
ReplyDeleteQ.1. Anything that moves within 20 meters from their nest.
ReplyDeleteQ2 A bald man
ReplyDeleteQ9 A Silencer
Q1.Magpies are the most dangerous in the breeding season and are dangerous when ever someone comes in the area of 20ft from their tree/nest.
ReplyDeleteQ2. The driver of the green van was Scott Gray.
Q3. Jake preferred Boxing day to Christmas because on christmas day the women of the house changed everything (some good, some bad) and on boxing day he got to go surfing with hs dad for hours like it had been a years before and Steph forgave him for what he had done when he had first met her.
Q4. The Scott Gray helped Jake to shoot the magpies because it would keep Jake focused on the magpies not what was going on in the house behind him so Western could find out about Pimmy and her location for his magazine/newspaper articul he posts about Milt.
Q5. Colin has found so far from the dig is Horse muscle fossils. They believe these fossils must have got there from a big storm that in the past must have happened that brought in the fossils with big waves.
Q6. Jake knew Western had been in the house because he left his horrible odor of sigarrets that he smokes continuously and that the smell was in the room with the computer and the computer screen had on it Pimmy's location and code number. This mad Jake strongly think that Western had been in the house.
Q7. It is a tool that is used to dig narrow holes.
Q8. In the story vermin is meant by pest I think because it talks about how vermin is usually shot for instance the magpies. Examples of vermin are maybe possums, magpies, rabbits, stoats...
Q9. A silencer because that is what is mentioned in the story (this was a bit of a wild guess)
Q1.Magpies are dangerous when something is 20 meters away from their nests.
ReplyDeleteQ6. Jake knew Western had been in the house because he saw him climb in when the green car went.
Q1. Magpies are dangerous when something is near them in eye distance.
ReplyDeleteQ2.In the green car was Vermin.
Q8. Vermin means someone that is harmful to crops, farm animal or a person who carries disease.