3. Mam does not want Frankie to go to confession over the incident at the Dooley house. Why?

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1 Chapter 8 Vocabulary plenary Indulgences-pardons from earthly punishment for sin 1. Why does Peter Dooley collect money by allowing other boys to look at his sisters while they bathe? 2. Why do the boys get caught watching Peter's sisters? 3. Mam does not want Frankie to go to confession over the incident at the Dooley house. Why? 4. What causes Frankie to miss his Confirmation Collection? 5. What gross misdiagnosis does the first doctor make? 6. What does Dr. Troy do when he examines Frankie? Why? 7. What is Extreme Unction, and what does it mean that Frankie receives it?

2 8. When does Frankie know he will get better? 9. Why does Dad's visit to the hospital bring Frankie great happiness? 10. Which two people befriend Frankie in the hospital? 11. What convinces Frankie that Dad is working while his son is in the hospital? 12. What book does Patricia loan to Frankie? 13. What does Frankie find thrilling about the history book? Find the quotation describing his delight. 14. From the other room, Patricia reads "The Highwayman" to Frankie. Why does he not get to hear the final lines of the poem?

3 15. Frankie observes, "Nurses and nuns never think you know what they're talking about. If you're ten going on eleven you're supposed to be simple like my uncle Pat Sheehan who was dropped on his head." (Pg. 198) What is it that Frankie understands? 16. Why does Frankie's new ward frighten him at night? 17. What unexpected challenge faces Frankie before he can leave the hospital? 18. How does Frankie get to hear the end of the highwayman poem? 19. How does the girl in the blue dress enrich Frankie's time in the hospital? 20. After how long does Frankie finally get to go home? What day is it? 2 1. What makes Frankie unhappy when he arrives at home? 22. Why was staying in the hospital luxurious to Frankie?

4 23. What embarrassed Frankie about his return to school? 24. What does Frankie do that gets him into the sixth class? What does he attribute this development to? 25. In Frankie's composition, why does he say it is fortunate Jesus was not born in Limerick? 26. How does Mr. O'Halloran differ from the other schoolmasters? 27. What does Mr. O'Halloran teach them that surprises Frankie? 28. Why does Mr. O'Halloran organize a raffle? 29. Why does Frankie feel tom between his father and his mother? 30. What does Frankie mean when he compares Dad to the Holy Trinity? What literary device does McCourt use in this comparison?

5 3 1. What causes the McCourt home to be infested with rats and flies? 32. Who is the latest welcome addition to the McCourt household? 33. Where does Frankie eat his Christmas dinner? 34. How does Finn's death demonstrate the compassion of the impoverished people in the McCourt's lane? 35. What happens to the stable at the end of this chapter?

6 Name: Date: Chapter 8 Context Objective: Investigating how context can change the meaning of words Activity When we speak of context, we often mean the environment surrounding a person or incident. However, the same word can mean the words that surround a word or passage in a book which affect its meaning. Keeping in mind the last definition of context, reflect on this quote, which appears twice in Chapter 8. "I do believe, induced by potent circumstances That thou art mine enemy." 1. When this quote appears on page 196, what is its literal meaning? 2. When this quote appears on page 196, what meaning does it have for Frank? 3. When this quote appears on page 203, what meaning does it have for Frank? 4. When you were Frank's age, what did you like to read? What does this tell you about Frankie McCourt? S - 53 Reproducible Student Worksheet

7 Name: Date: Chapter 8 Characters Objective: Exploring the impact that relationships with certain characters have on the narrator Activity In Chapter 8 Frank describes what it like to be in Mr. Thomas O'Halloran's sixth-term class. He also depicts rituals with his dad. Both men are educators of Frank McCourt and have a strong impact on McCourt's development. 1. As you read Chapter 8, note what Frank learned from each man. Mr. Thomas O'Halloran Mr. Malachy McCourt 2. Why do you think McCourt included vignettes about both his father and Mr. O'Halloran within the same chapter? S - 55 Reproducible Student Worksheet

8 Name: Date: Chapter 8 Newspaper Writing Objective: Using portion of memoir as the basis for a human-interest story Activity Picture your local newspaper in your mind. Think about the different sections: headline news, world, national, and local news, sports, editorials, weather reports, classified ads, science news, and lifestyle issues. Newspapers feature variety in order to sell more newspapers. One approach to selling papers is to use human-interest stories, which usually appeal to the readers' sympathies. It may be a good idea to bring your local newspaper to class to study the different sections and find examples of human-interest stories. Assume that you are a reporter for the Limerick Leadel: Your editor told you to cover the story about a boy in the Fever Hospital at the City Home who has typhoid fever. At some point in your story you should cover the five Ws: who, what, when, why, and where, but it up to you to set the tone of the article. Will you concentrate on the boy? The treatment? The causes? Hospital personnel? His family? You should interview the people involved (don't forget family, friends, and neighbors) and quote them in your article. Make sure that the title of your article is eye-catching. Your writing can be creative as long as it is consistent with the facts presented in Angela's Ashes. S - 57 Reproducible Student Worksheet

9 Name: Date: Chapters 6, 8 Literary Devices Objective: Identifying literary devices used by the author Activity Literary devices enliven an author's work by adding interest and variety to the style of writing. McCourt is a master of literary devices; each chapter teems with examples. Determine which of these literary devices is used in each of the following examples. Some devices may be used more than once. Your choices are: personification, irony, onomatopoeia, anaphora, simile, metaphor, alliteration. The first question has been answered for you. 1 We call him Dotty because he's small like a dot. Without Euclid, boys, mathematics would be a poor doddering thing. Without 2 Euclid we wouldn't be able to go from here to there. Without Euclid the bicycle would have no wheel. 3 Fintan's flat is like a chapel. Paddy notices that and we make a song from our two sounds, slap slap, 4 squish, squish, slap squish, squish slap. 5 The rain is clearing and there are birds honking over our heads. 6 It's bad when our kitchen is a lake. 7 They have snotty noses and sore eyes and scabby knees. 8 The doctor told me to go to Arizona. 9 He has a lump on his back like the one on the hunchback of Notre Dame. He curses his leg, he curses the world, but he curses in a lovely English 10 accent. 11 It's a lovely night with the June moon floating high over Limerick. My father is working and I don't care. My mother kisses me and I don't care. 12 The boys talk about The Collection and I don't care. I can hear the swish of Sister Rita's habit and the click of her rosary beads 13 when she leaves the room. Isn't it a great pity you have to be reading all about England after all they did l4 to us, that there isn't a history of Ireland to be had in this hospital. 15 He whispers that I'm a feather. 16 Nurses and nuns never think you know what they're talking about. 17 My father says the Shannon is a killer river because it killed my two brothers. 18 He has a head lil re Presid.ent Roo: jevelt I think my fathe] r is like I :he Holy Trinity with three people in him. You're allowed to say you love God and babies and horses that win but 20 anything else is a softness in the head. Simile S - 59 Re~roducible Student Worksheet