HW Mr. Padilla 5.19.17

Homework; Dear parents/guardians, please assist your child with today’s homework

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Collections: THE BOER WAR: THE SUFFERING OF THE CIVILIAN POPULATION 1900 by J. E. Neilly

Option 3: 

Words could not portray the scene of misery. The best thing I can do is to ask you to

fancy five or six hundred human frameworks of both sexes and all ages, from the tender

infant upwards, dressed in the remains of tattered rags, standing in lines, each holding

an old blackened can or beef tin, awaiting turn to crawl painfully up to the kitchen

where the food was distributed. Having obtained the horse soup, fancy them tottering

off a few yards and sitting down to wolf up the life-fastening mess, and lick the tins

when they had finished. It was one of the most heart-rending sights I ever witnessed,

and I have seen many.

Task: Write a 2-3 sentence summary of this passage. 

1^st high light Who, What, When, Where, Why.

2^nd Use your highlights to write your summary.

Option 2:

Words could not portray the scene of misery. The best thing I can do is to ask you to fancy five or six hundred human s….of both sexes and all ages…dressed in the remains of tattered rags, standing in lines, each holding an old blackened can or beef tin, awaiting turn to crawl painfully up to the kitchen where the food was distributed. Having obtained the horse soup, fancy them …off a few yards and sitting down to wolf up … and lick the tins when they had finished. It was one of the most heart-rending sights I ever witnessed, and I have seen many.

1.        What could word not do?

2.        Describe what is happening.

3.        What were the people doing?

4.        What were they eating?

5.        How does the narrator feel? Why?

Option 1:

Words could not portray (explain) the scene of misery.

1.     What could word not do?

… (imagine) five or six hundred humans….of both sexes and all ages…dressed in the remains of …rags,

2.     Describe what is happening.

{people} standing in lines, each holding an old…can or beef tin, awaiting turn to crawl … up to the kitchen where the food was distributed (given).

3.     What were the people doing?

Having… the horse soup, fancy them … sitting down to wolf up … and lick the tins when they had finished.

4.     What were they eating?

It was one of the most heart-rending (breaking) sights I ever witnessed, and I have seen many.

5.     How does the narrator feel? Why?

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