Homework; Dear parents/guardians, please assist your child
with today’s homework
.
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.
1st high light Who, What, When, Where, Why.
2nd 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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