While+reading

﻿ While reading!!!

In the role of your chosen character, write what you saw during the main events and what you thought or felt about what was happening.

1.When Isabel is trying to get to the Bellingham mansion to tell Curzon the news. My palms sweated furiously as i peeped from behind the sharp corner. The full moon shone off the guns of the tall strong, ruthless soilders. They stood around the park occasionally making a rude joke to each other. I thought through my mind; i couldn't do it. But i had to and i would. I went as dangerously close to them as i could and ran swiftly around them. I had to get to Curzon. I had to tell him what had happened. If Ruth and I would be free. . . well then I would do anything.

2. When the Kings soilders are invading the town. I looked out the church window silently as the rest of the church continued their prayers. Suddenly a little ragged white slave boy ran into the church and i almost jumped out of my seat in shock. He apolygised to the people in church that he shocked them, but the Kings soilders were coming into the bay. Madam ran outside and she shivered with excitement, but she didnt dare say a thing. The soilders were firing canons and guns. Maybe they were trying to say that the land was still theirs... they didnt want a democracy; no they didnt. Then the tallest and most ruthless looking shouted out for us to go home and that there was nothing to worry about. Madam and Lady Seymore walked away. I followed, but Ruth was frozen stiff.

Make a list of the characters as you meet them and beside each one write brief notes about their appearance, personality, actions.

Isabel: Small for her age Black 13 yr old slave girl. Ruth: Isabel's 4 yr old sister. Loves sucking her thumb and is also a small black slave. Sometimes she has seizures and when this happens Madam claims she is possesed by the devil. Miss Mary: You never really met her alive, but she was a kind caring owner of the two slave girls who died. Mr Robert: Miss Mary's only relative who took the girls and sold them for money. He is quite evil and wears dirty clothes. Mr Lockton (Master): An extremely rich man who is quite plump and quite stingy. He is also quite rude and inconsiderate. Mrs Lockton (Madam): Tall and skinnny. She is also inconsiderate and extremely wealthy. Curzon: A small black boy slave who is kind to Isabel and helps her escape. He is always wearing his red hat. Bellingham: A man who is very rich and quite kind who wants a democracy. <span style="color: #00ff67; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Lady Seymore: Mr Locktons Aunt who is extremely rich and very kind.

<span style="color: #ff0078; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Draw a map, (sketch, use art rage or windows movie maker) of the setting and mark in where the main events occurred. Use numbers to show the order of events and write brief notes for each number around or underneath the map.

<span style="color: #ff0078; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Predict how you think the novel will end. What are the possibilities? (Write about these questions when you are more than half way through the novel.) <span style="color: #00ff67; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">I think that it will end with Isabel and Ruth together again and with her and Curzon good friends. I think that it will become a democracy and that Isabel will finally find the lawyer and her and Ruth will be free.

<span style="color: #ff0078; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">When you finish reading, think over the actions of the main character. Would you have acted differently? Why or why not? <span style="color: #00ff67; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">I dont think I would have acted that differently at all. Except for the fact of Isabel being a spy, I don't know if i would have the courage to do that. I think that i would have been more scared and more loyal to my master, but I would also have been even more mad and upset than she was when Madam sold her little sister Ruth.