The Ear, the Eye
and the Arm
A Novel Package
ELA 9
Ms. Kuny
Novel Study Overview
Alright, so here we are at our novel study; The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by
Nancy Farmer. This novel study will have us working through questions,
vocabulary and various activities. You will be doing a lot of this work
independently so it is your responsibility to stay on top of things. Make sure to
complete and be ready for each class; especially on quiz days as you will be
permitted to use this study guide to help you. On quiz days you will also need
to hand your book in with your quiz before you begin reading the next chapter
so I can check your progress.
Breaking it Down: Below is an approximate schedule of this unit.
Thursday March 3, 2011:
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Book Sign-Out
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Receive novel packages
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Go over booklet
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Read: Chp 1-2
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
Friday March 4, 2011:
Monday March 7, 2011:
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Read: Chp 3-4
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
Tuesday March 8, 2011:
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Read: Chp 5-7
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
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Activity: Conflict Sheet #1
Wednesday March 9, 2011:
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Read: Chp 8
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
Thursday March 10, 2011:
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Read: Chp 9
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
Friday March 11, 2011:
NO SCHOOL
Monday March 14, 2011:
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Quiz: Chp 1-8
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Read: Chp 10
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
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Homework Check Day
Tuesday March 15, 2011:
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Read: Chp 11-12
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
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Activity: Event Illustration # 1
Wednesday March 16, 2011:
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Read: Chp 13
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
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Activity: Conflict Sheet
Thursday March 17, 2011:
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Read: Chp 14-15
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
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Due: Event Illustration #1 Due
Friday March 18, 2011:
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Read: Chp 16-17
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
Monday March 21, 2011:
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Read: Chp 18-19
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
Tuesday March 22, 2011:
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Quiz: Chp 9-18
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Read: Chp 20
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Activity: Conflict Sheet
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Homework Check Day
Wednesday March 23, 2011:
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Read: Chp 20
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
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Activity: Begin Event Illustration #2
Thursday March 24, 2011:
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Read: Chp 21
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
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Activity: Finish Event Illustration #2
Friday March 25, 2011: EARLY DISMISSAL
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Read: Chp 22-23
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
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Due: Event Illustration #2
Monday March 28, 2011- Friday April 1, 2011: SPRING BREAK
Monday April 4, 2011:
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Read: Chp 24-25
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
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Activity: Conflict Sheet
Tuesday April 5, 2011:
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Read: Chp 26-27
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
Wednesday April 6, 2011:
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Read: Chp 28
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
Thursday April 7, 2011:
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Quiz: Chp 19-26
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Read: Chp 27
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
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Homework Check Day
Friday April 8, 2011:
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Read: Chp 28-29
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
Monday April 11, 2011:
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Read: Chp 30
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
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Activity: Event Illustration #3
Tuesday April 12, 2011:
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Read: Chp 31-32
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
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Activity: Conflict Sheet
Wednesday April 13, 2011:
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Read: Chp 33-34
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
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Activity: Event Illustration #3
Thursday April 14, 2011:
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Read: Chp 35-36
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
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Quiz: Chp 27-34
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Read: Chp 37
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
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Homework Check Day
Friday April 15, 2011:
Monday April 18, 2011:
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Read: Chp 38-Epilogue
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
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Activity: Conflict Sheet
Tuesday April 19, 2011:
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Study Guide: Q’s and Vocab
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Intro Inside Out Character Sketch
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Essay Prep for tomorrow
Wednesday April 20, 2011:
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You will be writing your essay
Thursday April 21, 2011:
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You will be writing your essay
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Novel Package due on Tuesday
Tuesday April 26, 2011:
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Novel Final Exam
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Inside Out Character Sketch due tomorrow!
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Novel Package and Novels due back today!
Wednesday April 27, 2011
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Inside Out Character Sketch Due today!
Chapter 1
Vocabulary:
ancestors
reverence
mellow
destiny
holograph
entranced
virtues
holophone
benevolent
Study Questions:
• What is the setting (where and when the novel takes place) of the novel?
• Who is one of the main characters of the story?
• What do you know about him?
• How is the world in the novel different from the world today?
• What is destiny? (Use a dictionary if you need one)
• Why does Father approve of scouting?
• How does Father praise his children?
• Who are the Masks?
• What is a holophone and how is it different from a telephone?
• Who is the Mellower and what does his job seem to be?
• What is the struggle between Tendai and the Mellower? Who usually wins?
Chapter 2
Vocabulary:
strategy
martial
skulk
Study Questions:
• What do the children mostly study on this day?
• What do you think dwaaling means? (Foreign words are always italicized or
underlined.)
• Why do Tendai and Rita receive their educational instruction at home?
• Why does the martial arts instructor feel Tendai will not make a good soldier?
• How does Tendai react to the story of the sacrificed goat?
• In what way does Tendai feel like the mynah bird?
• What does Tendai do for the mynah bird?
Chapter 3
Vocabulary:
motivate
descendant
anatomy
realm
Study Questions:
• When Mother and Father are gone from the house, what do the children and the
Mellower do?
• Who has a shave for story telling?
• What is a shave?
• From what tribe is the Mellower?
• What is the difference between a shave and a mudzimua?
• What are the requirements for an explorer's badge?
• How will the Mellower help the children get Father's permission to go on the
scout trip?
• What does Tendai dwaal about when he loses himself in thought?
• How does the Mellower get two pass cards?
• How does Tendai feel about the trip?
• Do you trust the Mellower? Why or why not?
Chapter 4
Vocabulary:
contentment
debris
devour
genetically engineered
tightwad
chloroform
Study Questions:
• What do Mother and Father realize at the same time?
• How does the rat react to Rita?
• What does Tendai realize about himself and his emotions (happiness and sadness)
while in the Mbare Musika?
• What is the Blue Monkey's attitude toward people?
• Describe the trap that captures the children.
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Who is involved?
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What was the bait for the trap?
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What was used to make the children unconscious?
Chapter 5
Vocabulary:
vice
sleuth
solemnly
famine
Study Questions:
• Who do you think the She Elephant is?
• Why is Father embarrassed over how he has raised Tendai?
• How does Mother hear about the Ear, the Eye and the Arm Detective Agency?
• How are the children traveling away from the Mbare Musika?
• What does Tendai do to Fist's belt?
• Who are Fist and Knife?
• What important piece of information did Fist and Knife not know?
• Where do Tendai and Kuda hide?
• Where is Rita?
• Whose voice do you think they hear calling, "Bring them to meeeee"?
• Why didn't the children see the people in the vlei before?
Chapter Six
Vocabulary:
stammered
bewildered
abruptly
Study Questions:
 How is Arm different from anyone else?
 How is Ear different from anyone else?
 What kind of protections do Eye and Ear wear to protect themselves?
 How is Arm protected?
 What happens when someone shakes hands with Arm?
 What do you think Arm is doing when people feel energy hum while they shake
hands?
 What is Father's last opinion of Arm in the chapter?
Chapter Seven
Vocabulary:
camouflage
monotonous
mishmash
dank
riffraff
mournfully
Study Questions:
• Describe the vlei people.
• Who cleans Tendai's monkey bite?
• What does this say about the character?
• How is the food different in the vlei?
• What is a shooperer?
• What do the vlei say about the children?
• At this point in the story, who do you think are the good guys and who do you think
are the bad guys?
Chapter Eight
Vocabulary:
fetter
mottled
remnants
qualms
refuse
intensity
flask
Study Questions:
• Where does the She Elephant take the children?
• What kind of work are the children made to do?
• What valuable ore is mined in the trash heaps?
• What does this say about the author's view of the world in the future?
• What valuable items do the children find?
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How does Tendai feel when he is eating with the vlei and the She Elephant?
Chapter Nine
Vocabulary:
sober
gyrate
veer
malicious
plasma
Study Questions:
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What is Arm's specialty?
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What can he tell about General Matsika's house?
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What do the detectives learn from the Blue Monkey?
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"She Elephant" is a special title. What is the title and from what tribe does it
originate?
Chapter Ten
Vocabulary:
insidious
ravenous
aristocrat
siesta
seething
Study Questions:
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How much time has gone by since Chapter Nine?
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Aside from her brothers, who is Rita getting along with best?
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Who does Granny resent the most?
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What is her background?
resentment
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Why does Granny like Rita?
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Who is the man that Kuda translates for?
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Who is jealous of Trashman and why?
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What object does Tendai miss the most? Why?
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Why does Tendai cry at the end of the chapter?
Chapter Eleven
Vocabulary:
wallow
hooligan
disinfectant
Study Questions:
• Why are the Arm, the Ear and the Eye not welcome at Mr. Thirsty's?
• Who do Eye, Ear and Arm see at Mr. Thirsty's and what do they overhear?
• Who saves Eye's life?
• Who lies to General Matsika when the General starts his questioning?
• What does Mr. Thirsty say about the Mask's plans for the children?
• What gift does Arm give to Mr. Thirsty?
• What is the detectives' plan?
Chapter Twelve
Vocabulary:
consolation
motive
radiance
Study Questions:
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Because Fist and Knife are with Granny, Tendai has a new job. What is it?
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What is an ndoro?
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When she learns Knife has left an important clue behind, what does She
Elephant plan to do?
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Why are the Masks difficult to trace?
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Tendai prays to whom for help?
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How are his prayers answered?
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How does Tendai escape?
Chapter Thirteen
Vocabulary:
malicious
stifle
maneuvered
Study Questions:
• What does Granny know that shocks the children?
• Who carries Kuda away?
• Why doesn't Granny give the alarm that the children have escaped?
• Why don't the vlei people chase the children into the suburb?
• Where does the bus driver take the children?
Chapter Fourteen
Vocabulary:
contamination
ocher
despair
Study Questions:
• What is the Trashman's real name?
• What is Resthaven?
crosshatched
• How did Chedu become a member of Resthaven?
• Compare the smell of food between the She Elephant's cooking and the aromas in
Resthaven.
• When he is alone, who does Tendai thank?
• What is Tendai's theory about why the Mellower could speak convincingly about
Tendai's ancestors?
Chapter Fifteen
Vocabulary:
nirvana
sparse
conspicuous
malevolence
counterfeit
quest
Study Questions:
• How do you think a Nirvana gun works?
• How are the vlei like an ant nest?
• What happened that made Arm create enough noise to alert the She Elephant?
• What is the greatest threat to Arm?
• Why doesn't the border between the vlei and Vainona stop the vlei people?
• How are the detectives saved?
• Who does the bus driver think the She Elephant is?
• How close were the detectives to finding the children?
Chapter Sixteen
Vocabulary:
sarong
communal
etiquette
lotus position
totem
rank
proverb
suitor
hubbub
Study Questions:
• What attracts the attention of the people at Resthaven?
• Why is Tendai given his own bowl and not allowed to eat from the communal bowl?
• Describe how Tendai must introduce himself.
• What's for dinner?
• What happens after the meal? What is the "entertainment"?
• What happens in the story told by Garikayi?
• What is the story that Tendai tells?
• If the Spirit Medium agrees, Tendai and the other children will be accepted into
Resthaven. What will that mean?
Chapter Seventeen
Vocabulary:
lament
rueful
malice
Study Questions:
• What are the many things that Mother has discovered by this time?
• How has the Mellower behaved since the children left?
• What is the detective's reaction to the Mellower and his praise?
• What does the Arm see in the Mellower's mind?
• Why doesn't Gen. Matsika offer a reward for the return of his children?
Chapter Eighteen
Vocabulary:
appalling
antibiotics
Study Questions:
• What is the difference between the boy's lives and the girl's lives at Resthaven?
• What are some of the things that worry Rita?
• What are some of the things that the children at Resthaven do not know?
Chapter Nineteen
Vocabulary:
brooded
jujitsu
confer
atmosphere
midwife
Study Questions:
• Why does Tendai have sympathy for Clay Belly?
• How does Tendai feel about Resthaven life?
• What happens when the Kamba clan comes to the meadow?
• What does it mean to be a bull?
• Why does Tendai feel dishonest after the fight?
• Fighting was against the rules in Resthaven, but everyone is proud of Tendai. Why
do you think this is?
• What crime did Rita commit and what was the punishment?
• Should she have been punished? Why or why not?
• What is your opinion of Resthaven?
Chapter Twenty
Vocabulary:
tier
festoon
silhouette
cordon
hostility
Study Questions:
• Where did the detectives get suitable clothes for dinner with the Matsikas?
• Why were they given clothes?
• Why does Eye have a problem with the elevator to the Starlight Room?
• Who comes to the Restaurant as the General was leaving?
• What does Arm notice about them?
• What does the General know?
Chapter Twenty-one
Vocabulary:
placid
gaunt
crone
sovereignty
bogeyman
Study Questions:
• How did Resthaven begin?
• Why can't the General get the children out?
• Why can't the General invade Resthaven?
• What does Arm learn by putting his hands on the Gereral's shoulders?
• Who is Beauty?
• Why did General Matsika tell Arm about Resthaven?
Chapter Twenty-two
Vocabulary:
rejoice
stillborn
Study Questions:
• What kind of look passes between the Spirit Medium and Tendai? What does the
look seem to say?
• Why does Rita have a baby in her arms at the ceremony?
• Why is Rita angry?
• How and where did Myanda grow up and how did she get to Resthaven?
• Myanda accepts the bad with the good in Resthaven society. What are Myanda's
reasons for accepting the bad (like killing the baby) with the good?
• Do you agree with her? Why or why not?
• What must Tendai do at the night's ceremony to prove that he is not a witch?
• What does Myanda give him to help?
• What will happen to Sekai?
Chapter Twenty-three
Vocabulary:
trance
stealth
writhing
writhed
calabash
infectious
Study Questions:
• What is a spirit medium?
• What is with Tendai and the children in the dark while they are in custody?
• What is the matter with Rita?
• How does the Spirit Medium change?
• What does Tendai unexpectedly see in the Spirit Medium?
• What is the mudzimu?
• How does the midzimu change the plans of the Spirit Medium?
• Who does not vomit?
Chapter Twenty-four
Vocabulary:
undulating
Study Questions:
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Where do the children go? Who is accompanying them?
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How do they get chocolate? How do they get the fare to Borrowdale?
Chapter Twenty-five
Vocabulary:
sacred
shoal
profound
quarantine
suspicious
Study Questions:
• Who do the detectives hear in the subway?
• What is the most sacred law in Harare?
• What is the argument between Garikayi and the Spirit Medium?
• Who do the detectives pretend to be?
• How does Myanda protect the baby?
• How is life in Borrowdale different from life in Mazoe?
• How does Tendai find Horsepool Lane?
• Why will the children stay in quarantine?
• What are Tendai's suspicions about the Mellower's mother?
• What does he keep secret from her?
• What is Tendai's dream about?
Chapter Twenty-six
Vocabulary:
excruciating
psychic
morose
Study Questions:
• To whom does the baby bond?
• Describe the major problem Arm has because he has bonded with Sedai.
• Why is Arm jealous of the Mellower?
• How does the Mellower react when Arm asks him, "Have you heard anything about
the children?"
• What does Ear say about the Mellower's reaction?
• What do you suspect?
Chapter Twenty-seven
Vocabulary:
parliament
wretched
juggernaut
Study Questions:
• What are the interests of the Mellower's mother? What does she like best in the
world?
• What is the Mellower's real name?
• What is the Mellower's mother's real name?
• Who gets the best food in the house?
• What sickness does Tendai contract?
• Who gets it next?
• What are Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham's complaints about the robot?
• Why do you think Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham is lying to the children?
• How does Tendai get into the room Kuda is in?
Chapter Twenty-eight
Vocabulary:
compost
gnome
fetish
peril
anthropology
invalid
impertinence
righteous
Study Questions:
• What are the statues of little men in the garden?
• What visitors does Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham receive?
• What is the Invalid's Room?
• What is the Kiddie Koop?
• What are ngozi?
• How does Tendai protect Kuda from ngozi?
Chapter Twenty-nine
Vocabulary:
coo
Study Questions:
• Who do the detectives see in the subway?
• Where do the detectives think the She Elephant has gone?
• What clue do the detectives find in the subway?
• What power of Arm is becoming more sensitive?
• What is Arm sensing and learning about the She Elephant?
• Why does the baby cry?
• What do you think the Mellower is worried about?
Chapter Thirty
Vocabulary:
parasite
grub
denounce
confrontation
smarmy
impulse
Study Questions:
• Why is Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham so upset that she can't eat her oatmeal?
• What is Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham's plan and how does it involve her son?
• How does Tendai feel about Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham?
• How does Tendai feel about the Mellower?
• What reasons does Tendai find for the Mellower's involvement in the plot?
• What is Rita's reaction when she finds out that her parents are not on a cruise?
• Do you believe the Mellower or his mother should go to prison? Why or why not?
Chapter Thirty-one
Vocabulary:
malicious
methodically
Study Questions:
• What does Mrs. Matsika want to do?
• What is the children's plan?
• In what way would Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham be "declared a witch"?
• Who cuts through the front gate?
Chapter Thirty-two
Vocabulary:
petrified
rationalize
Study Questions:
• Who face off for battle in the garden?
• What are the strengths and weaknesses in each of these two opponents?
• How does the She Elephant escape?
• What has General Matsika done to the people at Dead Man's Vlei?
• How does the She Elephant rationalize stealing children?
Chapter Thirty-three
Vocabulary:
braziers
frantic
audible
antechamber
simpleton
Study Questions:
• Why doesn't Tendai yell for the police?
• Compare (show the similarities) and contrast (show the differences) the Blue
Monkey with Rita.
• To whom does the Blue Monkey bring the She Elephant?
• Why doesn't he stay?
• How does Tendai try to protect Kuda?
• Describe the Masks' den.
Chapter Thirty-four
Vocabulary:
embedded
fortify
palpitations
Study Questions:
• What clues are there that the children were at Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham's
home?
• What happened to Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham?
• What happened to the Mellower?
• What does the matchbook tell the detectives and what does it tell you?
• Why does the baby cry when Arm holds her?
Chapter Thirty-five
Vocabulary:
maitre d'
Study Questions:
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Describe Arm's dream.
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Where is he?
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What does it look like and what does he see?
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What is the mhondoro?
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What is the message that Arm is given in the dream?
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What does Arm realize about the Masks?
• Who are at the Starlight Room?
• What is the maitre d's opinion of the Gondwannan's?
• How does the mhondoro speak to Arm?
• Why doesn't the General believe Arm?
• What does Arm want General Matsika to do?
• How and why has Arm changed?
Chapter Thirty-six
Vocabulary:
bestial
pervaded
dignity
ominous
stench
Study Questions:
• Why do the Masks want a "goat"?
• Why does the She Elephant object?
• Why does Kuda laugh?
• What is behind the mask that surprises Tendai?
• Who is the Wart Hog?
• While looking out the car window, what does Tendai think of his city?
• How does Tendai fight the negative thoughts that flood his mind?
• Where is the Gondwannan Embassy?
• What is behind the black curtain?
• Describe the mask that draws Tendai's attention.
Chapter Thirty-seven
Vocabulary:
beacon
rouse
malevolence
Study Questions:
• Why does the building move?
• What rouses the mhondoro?
• What do the detectives see over the railing?
• How is Ear hurt?
• Who wants to help free the children?
• What is the diversion created by the cook and the salad master?
• Describe the door that blocks Mother.
Chapter Thirty-eight
Vocabulary:
purchase
loathsome
Study Questions:
• What does mhondoro say will happen to Arm if the detective is killed?
• What risk is the mhondoro taking?
• What does Obambo Chivari see that makes him jump back from Tendai?
• What does Tendai chant to give himself courage?
• When Arm shoots the Masks, what is it that only Arm can hear?
• What is the "hole in the ocean of desire"?
• How is Arm lost in battle?
Chapter Thirty-nine
Vocabulary:
fetish
defiant
Study Questions:
• What happens to Arm?
• Where does the Spirit Medium go?
• Why is this a good or bad choice?
• Tendai sees what the mhondoro really is. What is it?
• In what way does the She Elephant belong?
• Why can't the Big Head Mask readily take shape?
• What part does the She Elephant have in the victory?
• What does Rita not understand about Tendai?
Chapter Forty
Vocabulary:
glowering
Study Questions:
• Does the She Elephant escape?
• How is Tendai like his father when it comes to duty?
• Why do you think Arm lives?
• What does Tendai wish for at his birthday?
• Where is Trashman?
Epilogue
Vocabulary:
epilogue
Study Questions:
• What happens to each of the following characters?
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Obambo Chivari
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She Elephant
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Granny
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Fist and Knife
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Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham
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Trashman
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The People at Resthaven
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Tendai, Rita and Kuda
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Eye, Ear, and Arm
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The Mellower
Appendix
Study Questions:
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Describe the Spirit World of the Shona.
ELA 9
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
Event Illustrations
Upon the completion of every ten chapters, you will illustrate one of the events
that took place in those ten chapters. The illustration is a graphic representation of
the event. Each illustration must:
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have the event labeled at the top of the page
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be colored (pencil crayon or marker)
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show the background/setting
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include all characters that were present
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have a description to explain the event and it’s importance
to the novel
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be neat and legible
Upon the completion of the book, you will create a new cover page for this novel,
which will be handed in along with the event illustrations.
Each of the illustrations will be graded on a scale of 1 – 5.
5 – Engaging and skillful illustrations, color is included, insightful descriptions and
details are present, and perceptive exploration of the importance of the event.
4 – Purposeful and clear illustrations, color is included, plausible descriptions and
details are present, and elaborated exploration of the importance of the
event.
3 - Functional illustrations, some color is included, descriptions and details
are logical, and generalized exploration of the importance of the event.
2 - Illustrations and descriptions are simplistic. Color is minimal. Insight provided is
incomplete or uncertain.
1 – Minimal illustrations and obscure descriptions and details. Color is not included.
Irrelevant and underdeveloped exploration of the events.