We are currently reading Private Peaceful.
- The author bounces between Tommo as a young man and Tommo's memories of growing up. Why do you think this is?
- All the chapter titles are times: Nearly Quarter Past Eleven, Ten to Midnight, Twenty-four Minutes Past Twelve. Why do you think this is?
- What do you think this book is going to be about?
- Authors often use many writing "tools" when they write. One tool that Michael Morpurgo uses is foreshadowing. IN YOUR OWN WORDS tell what is foreshadowing (use google!). Big Joe, Tommo and Charlie blew raspberries at the colonel. What might this foreshadow?
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The author bounces between Tommo as a young man and Tommo's memories of growing up. Why do you think this is? I think the author bounces between them is that Tommo is writing the story to his kid and leaving it on the table for his son or girl to write the story for people.
ReplyDeleteAll the chapter titles are times: Nearly Quarter Past Eleven, Ten to Midnight, Twenty-four Minutes Past Twelve. Why do you think this is? It's the time where Tommo is somewhere
What do you think this book is going to be about?
I think this book is going to be about war and death.
Authors often use many writing "tools" when they write. One tool that Michael Morpurgo uses is foreshadowing. IN YOUR OWN WORDS tell what is foreshadowing (use google!). Big Joe, Tommo and Charlie blew raspberries at the colonel. What might this foreshadow? A flashback or remembering something.
The author bounces between Tommo as a young man and Tommo's memories of growing up. Why do you think this is? I think the author bounces between them is that Tommo is writing the story to his kid and leaving it on the table for his son or girl to write the story for people.
ReplyDeleteAll the chapter titles are times: Nearly Quarter Past Eleven, Ten to Midnight, Twenty-four Minutes Past Twelve. Why do you think this is? It's the time where Tommo is somewhere
What do you think this book is going to be about?
I think this book is going to be about war and death.
Authors often use many writing "tools" when they write. One tool that Michael Morpurgo uses is foreshadowing. IN YOUR OWN WORDS tell what is foreshadowing (use google!). Big Joe, Tommo and Charlie blew raspberries at the colonel. What might this foreshadow? A flashback or remembering something. Nick B
1. It might be because Tommo wants to remember his life before he goes to war.
ReplyDelete2. The author may be telling the time the events Tommo is thinking about happen.
3. The book is most likely about Tommo remembering his life before he fights.
4. Foreshadowing is a likely an indication of a future event that may happen. Big joe, Charlie and Tommo blowing raspberries at the colonel may indicate that the colonel might take action against them.
Locklan
It might because he wants to see what war is like.
ReplyDeleteAll the times are in the afternoon evening night e.g. P.M. and the war is going to start in the morning I mean the book is going to end in the morning.
I think this book is going to be about War WW|| .
Foreshadowing is a type warning and this foreshadow might be a warning of war.
Arsh C
Private peaceful
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Emma
I think the author bounces between old Tommo and young Tommo because the author wants the reader or readers to know why Tommo is going war and why he only sometime writes to Molly.
I think that the titles are times because when Tommo was going to war he kept checking his watch for when they would be at the soldier training. I also think why the titles are times is because Tommo wanted to turn back time so morning wouldn't come.
I think this book is going to be about Tommo growing up and him going to war because he wants Molly to notice him being fearless. I also think this book is about when Tommo and Charlie go to war and Charlie dying at war.
I think foreshadow means what will happen in the future and gives you a hint of why something is going to happen or why somebody is mad or sad.
emma
I think that because his memories are not that nice for him.
ReplyDeleteSo that we know when the time is in the book.
I think this book is about war tying to make peace if they go to war when he thinks he’s not a coward if he doesn’t go to war.LK
Foreshadowing is when an author uses a hint for something going to happen in the the future of the book.I think they did that because they have to work for the colonel.
I think the author did this because Tommo is reflecting on his life before war and writing it down so he will never forget it.
ReplyDeleteI think the chapter titles are this because the author wanted people to know when the events are taking place because it could change the storyline or these times represent big events in Tommo’s life.
I think this book is going to be about Tommo and Charlie going to war and trying to survive, and how hard the war actually is and it’s a lot worse than people think.
This might foreshadow that Big Joe, Tommo and Charlie might not like what the colonel is doing with his power and might try to make a plan to change that.
Amy
I think he does that because the author wants the reader to now about Tommos life as a child and war isn't how you think it is an what you see on movies.
ReplyDeleteI thinks it's kind of like a countdown until they have to go to war.
I think it's about war and about Charlie and Tommo going through this together.
I think that it's a warning for them to stop blowing raspberries.
Jessie
1.I think the author bounces between two perspectives because he wants to show Tomo before war and his childhood and after war the present day. The author is doing this because he want to show what war can do to your life.
ReplyDelete2.I think the author does time like ‘Nearly Quarter Past Eleven, Ten to Midnight, Twenty-four Minutes Past Twelve’ because they are special times in Tomos life and his childhood and how in the olden days people said time like ‘ten minutes to eleven’.
3. I think the book is going to be about war and about a teenager growing up and having to take part in the war.
4. I think it means that Tomo,Charlie and Big joe dislike the Colonel.
LL
I think the author is foreshadowing and saying what will happen in the future for Tommo.
ReplyDeleteI think this story is like a journal and Tommo is writing it and telling what time it is every chapter.
I think this book is about Tommo and Charlie going to war and seeing that war is not fun and games.
Foreshadowing is when the writer gives and advanced hint about what is coming up later in the story. When Big Joe, Tommo and Charlie blew raspberries at the colonel, I think that started the fight between them.
Nick K.
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ReplyDeleteI think the author bounces between Tommo in different ages because later in the story they are going to mention it so they just want to keep us guessing.
I think all the chapters start with times because the times might be special times of his life and they want to mention it.
I think this book is going to be about what it feels like in war mostly.
After I searched up on google, I think foreshadowing is to like kind of explain a future event coming up. The sentence above might be foreshadowing to that they might get in trouble later in the story.
W.W
1. I think this is because I feel the author really wanted to show how someone's life can be good and normal and after they join the army and fight in the war your life can be a living hell.
ReplyDelete2. I think this is him in the future saying what war is like then and giving snippets of the future.
3. I think did book is going to be about how bad war is and how bad it can be.
4. I think foreshadowing is a warning or indication of a future event. I think this means maybe the colonel might get him back by making them join the war except not Big Joe.
I think the author is switching between Tommo as a young man and Tommo growing up is because he is writing it down or telling a story to someone
ReplyDeleteI think all the chapter names are times because that is when the event takes place.
I think this book is going to be about Tommo living in the trench during the war.
Foreshadowing is a sign or indication about a future event.
sorry I forgot my name Esmee D.
DeleteI think it bounces between Tommo as a young man and Tommo’s memories because he is remembering his life when he was younger, and he speaks of a night he cannot sleep, so I also think that on that he is remembering on that night.
ReplyDeleteI think the chapter titles are times because what time it says, that’s the time Tommo is remembering.
I think this book is going to be about World War 2 and Tommo and Charlie as soldiers in the war because the title is called Private Peaceful, and Tommo’s last name is Peaceful and his rank is Private.
Foreshadowing is when the author gives a hint about what will happen if say someone found out about a secret relationship, what would happen to the people in the relationship. After the foreshadow, the thing the author foreshadowed, normally happens. When Big Joe, Tommo and Charlie blew raspberries at the colonel, I think it meant that there are raspberries in the future OR they get in trouble with the colonel.
Haohao
1. Who is Captain Wilkie? How is he different from Sergeant Hanley? (p.120)
ReplyDelete2. Is the war going well for the soldiers? How do you know this?
3. What problems were there in the trenches?
4. Anna, the girl from the estaminet, reminds Tommo of Molly. Write about a time when you saw someone who reminded you of a person you know. Tell what it was about that person (not just looks) that reminded you of them.
Owen
1He jumps between times because he wants to get you excited for the rest of the story.
ReplyDelete2 Each of them are about 30 m apart I think the starting of the chapters means he is writing a letter, and it’s right before he is going to the final push or the front lines and thinks he will die. He also is writing that letter because he wants to think of the happier times.
3 I think is going to be about war and the life they lived before it.
4 I think it is foreshadowing the colonel trying to get revenge, and not be humiliated.
Evan
I think because the author wants to show tommo’s whole life but back in forth so it’s not just one thing.
ReplyDeleteI think because maybe this is tommo writing about his life and it is like a journal and he is putting the time it is or the time it happened.
Tommo and his brothers and the rest of his family and war.
That might lead to the colonel getting mad at them.
Paige
Private Peaceful: Post Number One
ReplyDelete1.I think the author does this because then Tommo is the narrator and he can share his life story/experience with us.
2.I think this is counting down to the time of his court martial.
3.I think this book will be about Tommo’s experience in world war 2.
4.Foreshadowing means that the author is setting us up for a major event that will happen in the future. It might foreshadow that the colonel will try to retaliate in a big way.
Alex