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1.) Why, in Ellie’s opinion, is Cobbler’s Bay and Wirrawee so important to the invaders?
- It's a entrance to the big town and cities

2.) Corrie and Ellie reminisce about how innocent they were in high school and even a few days ago. Why were they still innocent then? Why are they no longer innocent?
- They believed things in fantasies like santa, but they also believed they were safe, now they know it was all a lie

3.) By blowing up Corrie’s house, what does the invading force demonstrate to the teenagers?
- That they wouldn't been dead if they were in there and that they wouldn't care

4.) Describe the strategy Homer and Ellie use to ensure their safety when riding their bikes into town. What does this show about how they are starting to think?
-One ride ahead and look out and wave there hands to show that it is clear, they are being very cautious&Paranoid

5.) How does Ellie feel as she is waiting in the truck at the Council Depot? Where do her emotions come from?
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6.) Why is it so terrible that Chris falls asleep while on sentry duty? How does Ellie react why do you think she reacts this way? How does she feel about her reaction later? 

Chapter 9-12 Questions

John Marsden

John Marsden was born in Victoria, Australia in 1950.  He went to many different primary schools, and from an early age enjoyed the journeys into magical worlds that reading could provide.  His teachers in Grade 4 and Grade 6 encouraged him to write, and at the age of nine he decided he wanted to become an author.

For seven years he attended The King's School Parramatta, a strict military school in Sydney, and from there went on to the University of Sydney.  However, he soon decided that a career in law looked too boring, so he dropped out and drifted around for nearly 10 years, trying different jobs, and earning just enough money to support himself.

When he was 28, he began a teaching course, which he loved from the start. Embarking on a teaching career, he also became more and more interested in writing, and in 1987 succeeded in getting his first book, "So Much to Tell You", published.  A string of huge hits followed, highlighted by the Tomorrow series and Ellie chronicles. John has now sold more than 2 1/2 million books in Australia alone, but is an international best-seller, with many major awards to John's interest in education has never waned. In 1998 he bought the Tye Estate, 850 acres of natural bush, on the northern edge of Melbourne, and later added the property next door.  For eight years he ran enormously popular writers' courses and camps there before starting his own school Candlebark, in 2006.

Candlebark is a P-8 school, which has been described by John as "somewhere between Steiner and The Simpsons". Its friendly lively and positive atmosphere has resulted in such early success that it has a four-year waiting list.

Michael mew is Asian and are great art designer. He is one of his drawings 

  Mime tape man

                 THE ROYAL FAMILY - Nationals 2018 (Guest Performance)                 Dance
 HAIRSPRAY 262011 HD   Musical theatre
                 Dynamo Magician Impossible in Paris Tour                Illusion
                 Russell Westbrook Is Not to Be Messed With - The Jeselnik & Rosenthal Vanity Project                Comedy

Who are you working with? Nobody because i think its cool
Which type of performing arts are you doing? dance i like it
What song / theme are you going to use and why? Depends what vibe im feeling
What are you starting on first? rap dance

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of first person narration?
2. What kind of story do you think Ellie is going to tell? Uses evidence from the text to support your answers.
3. What set of skills do these characters have that convince their parents that they can ‘go bush’ independently. Find examples for three characters.
4. What picture of Kevin do we get in chapter 3?
5. What does Ellie liken Fi to? Do you think this is a fair assessment of her character. Use examples from the text to support your thinking
6. Ellie claims that ‘Hell’ is only a label and that people label things all the time, often ignoring or overlooking certain labelled places or things. She then comes to the conclusion that ‘Hell was people’. Is she right? What’s your opinion, on labelling and Hell?
7. What was especially peculiar about the planes that flew over Hell? ‘Their ------, their ------, their----- frightened me.’ Do these characteristics have any significance?

Definition of words

1. Chronological - following the order in which they occurred.
2. Authority - the police has the rights to arrest you.
3. Alternatives -  a choice limited to one of two or more possibilities,
4. Gratification - satisfied  
5. Obstinate - being stubborn in someone else’s choices.
6. Hoist - raising someone high up.
7. Unsympathetic - Simple terms of not caring.
8. Scrutinising - looking at something closely.
9. Commemoration - remembering the past event or a person.
10. Hysterically -  i started laughing and couldn't control myself.
11. Concealed - hidden ( something )