The Witch Who Came for the Weekend
William Travor
About the Author
- Novelist and a Short Story Writer
- Born May 24, 1928
- Awarded the Whitbread Prize and five Booker Prize
- 20 Awards total
- First book was in 1958
The Story The Witch Who Came For The Weekend is related to his own life because in all the books he writes involves
PREREADING REFLECTION
What character traits and physical qualities do you associate with witches?
My charater traits associate with witches i used a broom to sweep up intead of flying and their are some good witch who are kind hearted and not do evil like me and some witches who are evil which is not like me.
Have you ever formed an opinion about someone's personality and later changed that opinion? How did you form your first opinion? What caused you to change it?
Yes, I haved formed an opinion of somebody before and have not changed it because it was true. I have formed by opinion based on their attitude and on their manners. I am sometimes wrong but I am sometimes right and I have changed it because of their attitude can change easily.
What character traits and physical qualities do you associate with witches?
My charater traits associate with witches i used a broom to sweep up intead of flying and their are some good witch who are kind hearted and not do evil like me and some witches who are evil which is not like me.
Have you ever formed an opinion about someone's personality and later changed that opinion? How did you form your first opinion? What caused you to change it?
Yes, I haved formed an opinion of somebody before and have not changed it because it was true. I have formed by opinion based on their attitude and on their manners. I am sometimes wrong but I am sometimes right and I have changed it because of their attitude can change easily.
VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT:
Define each term as it is used in the context of the story. Provide a quote from the story in proper quote format and include a page number.
Gorgeous
"' My dear, how gorgeous! ' " she cried out when the collies barked at her." (page 50)
extremly pretty
Extraordinary
" ' Extrodinary girl, no more than sixteen she was. ' " (page 50)
Not ordinary
Tedious
" How tendious teh weekend is going to be, Frances thought," (page 53)
Boring
Occupied
"She lay awake for ten minutes, gloomily thinking about the boring weekend, with her mothe occupied listening to Miss Perago's silly chatter and her father making hay, and teh man called Gareth probaly asleeep somewhere. " (page 53)
Contemptuously
" 'Really! ' " Frances comtemptoulsly exclamied before she went to sleep" (page 54)
Not believing
CONTRASTING IDEAS
Define each term as it is used in the context of the story. Provide a quote from the story in proper quote format and include a page number.
Gorgeous
"' My dear, how gorgeous! ' " she cried out when the collies barked at her." (page 50)
extremly pretty
Extraordinary
" ' Extrodinary girl, no more than sixteen she was. ' " (page 50)
Not ordinary
Tedious
" How tendious teh weekend is going to be, Frances thought," (page 53)
Boring
Occupied
"She lay awake for ten minutes, gloomily thinking about the boring weekend, with her mothe occupied listening to Miss Perago's silly chatter and her father making hay, and teh man called Gareth probaly asleeep somewhere. " (page 53)
Contemptuously
" 'Really! ' " Frances comtemptoulsly exclamied before she went to sleep" (page 54)
Not believing
CONTRASTING IDEAS
Frances HAS POWER in a conversation
France has power in a conversation when she was walking in the woods with Miss Perago. Frances has power in a converstaion when she was with Miss Perago because she had all of the information and she started the conversation.
Frances also has power in a conversation when she was on the bus with Mr. Adderlipe because she haas the power to say that Miss Perago is a witch but she didn't, instead she siad the she is a nice woman. Frances has power when she told Mr. Addlerpipethat she doesn't belive him but then Mr. Addlerpipe told her that she can't be a witch. Frances has power in the converstaion because she could turn the conversation into a new topic, she was talking at the moment, and she had disagreed making the conversation longer. Frances has power when she drives Miss Perago to the house because she and her father could take her to anywhere she wants. |
Frances doesn't HAVE POWER in a conversation
Frances doesn't have power in a converstaion when Mr. Addlerpipe was talking about witches in the bus. Frances didn't have power when Mr. Addlerpipe talkied about witches becasue he had all the information and he was telling the stories.
Frances didn't have power in a converstaion when she was staring at Miss Perago because her mother had told her to stop, he rmother also told her to go play outside, and she couldn't talk back to her mother. frances didn't have power in a conversation when Miss Perago told her to close her eyes because she was an adult and you have to have manners, and she commanded her to close her eyes and she didn't have power since there was a snake going up her leg. Frances didn't have power when Miss Perago was talking to her mother because she couldn't interrupt her and if she did she wouldneed to have to have a topic to talk about. She also didn't have power because she couldn't have anything to talk about. |