Tuesday

Today we will continue reading more about the life as a Child Soldier

Bring your papers, purple notebook and computer.

For those of you who were not present in class Monday, you can find the new texts in the desk drawer in the classroom. Only take the one with your name on it. We have read the first text already

Questions to:

A former child soldier tells his story

1. Who is telling the story? Where does he come from?
2. What was his life like before the war entered his life? What interested him the most?
3.  On page two he writes that he “didn’t think anyone would be capable of doing some of the things we had heard people were doing to each other”. What do you think he is thinking of here?
4. What did they see when they tried to go home? And what did they decide to do instead of going home?
5. What did Ishmael feel like when he found out that his family had been killed? Do you understand why he felt like that?
6. Where did Ishmael and his friends go after having learned that his family was dead? Why did they stay there in the first place? Why didn’t they leave when they found out that they had to fight?
7.  What were the boys given?
8. Why didn’t Ishmael try to stop being a soldier?
9.  Ishmael writes that the group became a surrogate family. How is this possible do you think?
10.  How did Ishmael get away from the group? Why do you think the lieutenant help him?
11. What happened to Ishmael when he left the group?