Background Information

What would it be like to work at a dangerous job for little pay? Why would someone work like that? Talk about the mining business and working in isolation. Has the mining business gotten worse or better?






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Questions

1. What was George's job?

2. What lived in the mine?

3. Why do you think there wasn't one grey head on the crew?

4. What is rubble?

5. Why do you think working conditions were so bad?

6. What kind of weather was around the mine?

7. Use the word rumour in a sentence.

8. Which war is George talking about? How do you know this?

9. What does George mean by a thick head?

10. Do you think the men should have kept the animal? Why?

11. Why did the fisherman's wife row the boat every morning?



Other Activities: write a story about a war that you know something about. If you don't know a lot about any war, do some reading or talk to someone about war before you begin.

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