Monday, December 14, 2009

chapter 16 vocab

Infuriating- causing or tending to cause anger or outrage.
2.Civilian- a person who is not on active duty with a military, naval, police, or fire fighting organization.
3.Vengeance- 1.infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person
4.Cringed- To shrink back, as in fear; cower.
5.Illuminated- to supply or brighten with light.
6.Maneuver- a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
7.Kiosks- a small structure having one or more sides open, used as a newsstand, refreshment stand, bandstand, etc.
8.Apprentice- a person who works for another in order to learn a trade: an apprentice to a plumber.
9.Looted- spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
10.Sporadic- appearing in scattered or isolated instances, as a disease.

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chapter 16

What made him infuriated? why? Ishmael would get mad when he got told what to do by civilians. Because, Ishmael didn’t like been told unless it was a corporal.
2.How did they feel about attending scheduled medication checkups? Ishmael felt angry, because he though he didn’t need to be check up.
3.What was the result of them not having drugs? The result of them not having drugs were that they were acting insane and were destroying everything.
4.What do they do to the cooks? why? Ishmael and his friends put a bucket over his head and push him around until he burn his hand and agree to put more milk in there tea.
5.Have you ever bullied anyone, what did you do? No I have never bullied nobody.
6.What was happening to the drugs in his system? What did he do because of it? The drugs inside of there system were going away and it was making Ishmael and his friends mad and were destroying everything they could..
7.Can you relate to his cravings? what have you craved so badly that made you do something crazy? Yes I can relate. I wanted to go to a important party and my mom wouldn’t give me a ride so I just got mad and stole her car and she reported me.
8.what do they do in between meals? give me examples from chapter of what they would do. Ishmael and the boys would leave the hall to the city between there meals and take journeys around it.
9.Why do you think the staff members would come back after getting beaten up? The staffs would come back after they got beaten up to show that they weren’t going to give up on them.
10.who is Poppay? and what did they want from him? why? Poppay is the halls chef. Ishmael and the boys wanted more milk in there tea..
11.How would you feel if you were a staff member and had to go through this every day? If I was a staff I would of understand what the boys were going through so I wouldn’t give up on them.
12.Why was he getting so many migraines? Ishmael was getting a lot of migraines because, the drugs were going away all ready.
13.what did they do to the classroom? what happened to him because of it? Ishmael and his classmates broke the windows with his fist and he had to be taken to the hospital because he was bleeding uncontrolled.
14.What did they do with the school supplies? How did they get them? Ishmael would sell the school supplies he would get from the teachers everyday.
15.Where did they go after breakfast? They would go down to the city of Freetown.
16.When they went to villages what are they scouting for? When Ishmael would go to the villages he would take there food, gasoline, clothing, and ammunition.
17.tell one incident that happened at a village. One incident that happened at the village was that he got shot in the foot and he didn’t even feel it.
18.What famous movie do they refer all their war moves from? The famous movie they refer all there moves is Rambo.
19.What do you think of them now? what disguises our about what they are doing? I think that they are going insane since they are not having any drugs and aren’t having enough violence.
20.Did they let anyone live in the village?
21.who got the name little Rambo? Aljahi got the name little Rambo.
22.What was the nickname Ismael got?> why? Ishmael got the nickname green snake because, he would attack villages unstoppable.
23.describe the city. The city had tall buildings and had lots of cars and people, it also had lots of stores.
24.Describe what the informal school was like? The informal school would teach them mathematics, like multiplication, division, and addition they also learn English.
25.If tried to sleep without medicine, what would happen to him? what were some things that kept him up or wake him up? When Ishmael would fall asleep he would dream that the rebels were killing him and staving him with a knife and cutting his guts out with the zigzag side.
26.Tell the seasons for Sierra Leone.
27.What did they do when they didn’t have enough money to get home?
28.What were some of the things they did at night?
29.Why do you think they couldn’t sleep?
30.Why do you think the staff member would always say “This isn’t your fault”?