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  • Chapter 5 The road to the workhouse

    Learning Intentions

    To engage in sustained independent reading of chapter 5.

    To identify key characters and dramatise their spoken parts.

    To summarise the chapter in a short paragraph.

    To visualise a significant aspect of the chapter.

    To compose and respond to effective questions on the text.

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    Use your dictionary to help understand the words below

    Obviously= ______________
    Sullen= _________________

    Hostile= _________________________

    Circumstances= __________________
    Refresh= _________________________

    1. What was different about Kitty O Hara?______________________

    2. How did Eily feel as she passed by the cottages and cabins? ____________________

    3. What did Tom Daly shout after the children? ____________________
    4. What did the children compare themselves to as they hid in the bushes? __________________
    5. How did Mary Kate fool the O Connell twins? ________________
    6. How many nights did the children spend at Mary Kate’s house ___________________