Carrie’s War
Chapter 1
The first chapter introduces us to the story.
How does it do this?
Chapter 2
1.Where were Carrie and Nick to live?
2.What sort of shop was attached to the house
3.What do we learn about Mr Evans before he
comes into the story personally?
Sentences
Statements
Questions?
Exclamations!
Commands
Commands
What is a command?
You are going to school.
Say this sentence as:
A statement
A question
An exclamation
A command
Which words would you expect to see at the
beginning of a command?
Don’t
Keep
Listen
Make sure
Never
Go
Get
Complete the commands.
What others can you think of?
Task
1. Group task
In groups look again at Aunty Lou’s explanations
and instructions to the children in chapter 2.
Gather them all together and
make a list of all the “rules” you find.
2. Individual task
Write up a List of Rules for Evacuees that could be pinned to the
bedroom door.
Use information from the book.
You could also add one or two of your own .
Task
Read to the middle of page 34.
Write Carrie and Nicks post card home to their
mother, written on that first evening.
Will they be 100% honest or will they want to give her a
certain impression?
Chapter 3
Close Reading
1. How does Miss Evans react to Mr. Evans? Why did she
think of him more as a father than a brother?
2. Although Nick seems childish in some ways, he
understands grown-ups quite well. How can you tell
this from the way he reacts to Mr Evan’s threat to beat
him?
3. Mr Evans makes out that he is very religious but he can
be very unkind, nasty and deceitful times. Give some
examples of this.
4. Where was the children’s father? Where was their
mother?
5. Their mother visited them one day. How did the visit
go?
Proverbs
What is a proverb?
What do these proverbs actually mean?
What advice are they giving?
A stitch in time saves nine
The early bird catches the worm
Homework
Do some research
Five proverbs and their literal meanings
(what do they actually mean)
Chapter 4
1. Who was Mrs Gotobed? What was the name of
her house?
2. What scared nick and Carrie on their way for the
goose? Who was it?
Descriptions of Place
Read the description of Hepzibah’s kitchen on pages 5253 and answer the following questions:
1. Why does the first line of chapter five sound familiar?
2. Why might it be considered an unsatisfactory sentence?
3. There are four comparisons which are used to show how
comforting Hepzibah’s kitchen is. What are they? Quote your
favourite.
4. Look again at paragraph one on page 53. Sum up, in one or two
adjectives of your own, what Hepzibah’s kitchen looked like.
Which details prove you are correct?
Describe a place you know well
A place I know well is…
What is the general impression of
the place?
What does it smell like?
Are there any sounds
What are they like?
What can you see?
Describe the things you can see
What do you do there?
How does the place make you feel?
Now use your notes to write about this place.
This will be a piece for your folio and you will complete it in
class.
Remember: alliteration, simile onomatopoeia, personification
Use these figures of speech in your writing.
Chapter 5
1.
What impression do you get of Hepzibah in this
chapter?
( what sort of person do you think she is?)
2. Which evacuee is living at Druid’s Bottom? What does
he like about the house?
3.
What object is kept in a box on the desk in the library?
4.
What strange story did Hepzibah tell about this object?
5.
How did Carrie and Nick feel about this house when
they compared it with the Evans’s.
Chapters 6, 7 and 8
1. Mr Evans did not like Hepzibah. What did Carrie he want Carrie do to
and how did she feel about that?
2. Describe Mrs Gotobed the first time Carrie aw her. What did she ask
Carrie to tell Mr Evans?
3. What had Auntie Lou done which made Mr Evans angry?
4. Hepzibah explained some of the reasons why Mr Evans was so hard
and mean and why he did not get on with his sister, Mrs Gotobed.
What did she say?
5. Who was major Cass Harper?
Chapters 9,10,11 and 12
1. What dreadful thing did Mr Johnny do? What made him do it?
2. When Mrs Gotobed died, Carrie felt obliged to give her message to Mr
Evans. How did he take it?
3. What did Albert think Mr Evans did when he came on a visit?
4. What word came from their mother?
Group Discussion
Questions to discuss
1. Was Mr Evans really an ogre? What were his bad points/ Is there
anything to say in his favour?
2. What was it about Hepzibar that made it possible for people to
believe that she was a witch?
3. In what ways was Mrs Gotobed’s life unusual?
4. Why is Albert Sandwich likeable? What do you dislike about him?
5. Re-read 100-106. Why did the author bring Frederick into the novel?
6. What kind of person did Carrie’s mother seem to be? How did Nick
and Carrie feel about her at the beginning (p.38-40) and at the end
(135-136). Why?
7. How do you react to Aunty Lou? Do you like her and feel sorry for her
of do you feel exasperated by her as Carrie sometimes does? Why?
Character Study of Mr Evans
We first hear About Mr Evans on page 24. Who tells us about him? What does he
say?
What word is used to describe Mr Evans? (31) What does he look like? What does he
do for a living?
Describe an incident between Nick and MR Evans (35)
How does Mr Evans react to Carrie and Nick’s mother? (39)
Describe the relationship between Mr Evans and His older sister Dilys.(45)
Why does Mr Evans ask Carrie to keep her eyes open at Druids Bottom? (67)
What do we find out from Hepzibah about Mr Evan’s past?
What does Mr Evans do for Carrie and Nick when they leave that is his way of trying
to be nice?
Read pages 118,123 and 147. Do you think Mr Evans stole Mrs Gotobed’s will? Give
reasons.
What happens to Mr Evans at the end? (156)
List the good and bad things about Mr Evans. Use page 124 and any other references
you want to.
Do you like Mr Evans? Why? What sort of character has the author created?