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Local People Remember War and Peace

WORKBOOK 8

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Funding for this project has been provided through a grant by the National Literacy Secretariat

This is a project of the Eastern Shore and Musquodoboit Valley Community Learning Initiative.

The Community Learning Initiative thanks the Veterans, War Brides, and other people who shared their stories for this project. The CLI also thanks the Students and Staff of the Duncan MacMillan High School, Sheet Harbour, the MacPhee House Community Museum, Sheet Harbour; and the Administration of the Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital, Sheet Harbour for their help in the production of these books.

Workbooks Written and Edited by John Wood, Sober Island

Published March 2001 by The Musquodoboit Valley and Eastern Shore Learning Initiative

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FAR AWAY BUT CLOSE TO HOME

WORKBOOK 8

Introduction

Each workbook in this series goes with a Reader. The workbooks have exercises that are based in the text of the stories. The exercises concentrate on developing comprehension of the story content.

Learners and their tutors may find it helpful to have the relevant Reader to hand for frequent reference.

Copies may be made of any material in these books for the purpose of assisting literacy learners. Copyright is held by the Eastern Shore and Musquodoboit Valley Community Learning Initiative. Materials outside the ownership of the CLI and its contractors are used by permission.

The stories on which the workbooks are based are from the Second World War, 1939-1945, and the years that followed. The story-tellers are from, or are now living along, the Eastern Shore and Musquodoboit Valley of Nova Scotia.

FAR AWAY BUT CLOSE TO HOME - WORKBOOK 8

CONTENTS

Exercise Type Source story

CLOZE Getting ready I don’t think so Early Start A bad mistake Smoking along! A good sort No fresh air

HOMONYMS Spit and polish Sea-cocks We need shipwrights Gasp!

WORD SEARCH Scary stuff! Ricochet! A tense time

TRUE OR FALSE The military way A warning shot Unexpected

MAPS “You can’t get there from here” Nabob and Puncher

TITLES AND INFERENCES Distant Guns Heavy metal

MATH (Reading between the lines) Nabob and Puncher

LEARNER’S RESPONSE All the stories in the book


Looks the same, but isn’t

Some words sometimes sound the same, but don’t mean the same thing.

In the story “Spit and polish” Reader 8, George talks about “polish”. Say it like Poll-ish. It’s something used to make things smooth and shiny. There is a country in Europe, called Poland. Things to do with Poland and it’s people are called “Polish”. Say it like Pole- ish. It always has an upper case P. The stuff that makes things shine may or may not have an upper case P depending on where it comes in the sentence.

1 Write a sentence using polish, stuff to make things shine.

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2 Write another sentence using Polish, to do with Poland, or it’s people.

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The “o” sound in polish is short, even though there is only one “l” in polish. The fish “Pollock” has the same short “o” sound, made by adding a second “l”

Write a sentence using “Pollock”, the fish.

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Have a look at the story “Getting Ready” in Reader 8. Words have been left out in the same story on this page. From the way you understand the story, put them in the blank spaces.

Getting ready

George Fraser : Middle Musquodoboit

We went overseas from Halifax. I __________________over to Glasgow, I think it ___________________. There were over seven __________________of us on the boat. It took seven __________________ to cross the sea. One reason it was such a __________________ trip was enemy submarines. We had to keep ___________________ of them. We had to change __________________ several times to ___________________ that. We didn’t have any trouble like being __________________ at. There wasn’t even a ___________________, or anything ___________________ that. When we ___________________ we went by rail to Aldershot for more training. We were told that we were getting ready for the invasion.



Word Search

R M L P K B J I C G Y O T C C I R C L E

D R U Z D I T E N C

F R A N G S D O S A T G J N D C L E A N

B L O K R A H F A A

G R I N I R B T Y D W M C G V Y E O K A

F T E M E J E L U S

T R A F F I C L O T

Find the words from “Scary stuff!” in Reader 8, hidden in this puzzle. The Words go Across, Down, and Slanting Up or Down. There may be other words that we didn’t see. Have a look.

TRUCK SCARY

DRIVE ALONE

ROUNDABOUT CANADA

IDEA TRAFFIC

WRONG CIRCLE



Find a way

To find your way to some place you don’t know well, it’s handy to have a map. Things on maps are labelled so you know what is what.

In “You can’t get there from here”, Reader 8, George says that there was no direct road from Manchester to Glasgow.

On the map of Great Britain with the roads on it, FIND MANCHESTER AND GLASGOW. Notice the road North from Manchester does direct to Glasgow.

The map with the hills on it is called a “Relief Map”. This kind of map shows you if the way you want to go will be flat, or hilly.

DRAW THE ROAD FROM MANCHESTER TO EDINBURGH AND ON TO GLASGOW ON THE RELIEF MAP. WHY DO YOU THINK THAT A DIRECT ROAD WAS NOT MADE FROM MANCHESTER TO GLASGOW ?

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Have a look at the story “I don’t think so” in Reader 8. Words have been left out in the same story on this page. From the way you understand the story, put them in the blank spaces.

I don’t think so!

George Fraser : Middle Musquodoboit

When I found the outskirts of Glasgow, it was pretty near just getting dark. There was __________________ way that I was going to try to _________________ the depot in the dark. There were no __________________ lights or anything like that. There were no lights ________________ of the black out. The __________________ over there have what are called “lay bys”. They are like a small ___________________ place to on the side of the road. I just hauled the ___________________off into a lay by. I crawled in the _________________, and went to __________________. The truck was just __________________ enough for you to __________________ down in the back. Not across, of course, but on the ___________________ way. I made it into the depot all right the next morning.



True or false

Read the story “The military way” by George Fraser. It is in Reader 8.

From what you understand of the story, are these things true or false?

TRUE FALSE

George’s car broke down

The power from the engine wasn’t getting to the back wheels. The Canadian army was to fix it. It was fixed quickly.

George was given jobs to do with his truck each day. George’s commanding officer knew that truck could not be used. The officer stopped giving George his orders after a few days.



Have a look at the story “Early Start” in Reader 8. Words have been left out in the same story on this page. From the way you understand the story, put them in the blank spaces.

Early Start

Ted Miller : Musquodoboit Valley

I had joined the navy before the war as part of the Naval Reserve. So when the __________________ started I already had my __________________ training. I went into the Regular _________________. I started at the _________________. That is I was an Able __________________. What I did ___________________the war was to work as a carpenter. I didn’t know then that being a carpenter was going to __________________ me a lot. I only had a Grade 5 __________________, but I __________________ read books. That helped me a lot too, later on.



True or false

Read the story “A warning shot” by Ted Miller. It is in Reader 8.


TRUE FALSE

The liner “Louis Pasteur” was a Canadian ship.

The “Louis Pasteur” was in Halifax. The spies did not dare go past the guns at York Redoubt. The guns hit the “Louis Pasteur” .

The spies gave up as soon as the armed guard arrived. For Ted being a guard on the “Louis Pasteur” was just another of many jobs he had done in the war.



Looks the same, but isn’t

Some words sometimes look the same, but don’t mean the same thing.

In the story “Sea-cocks” Reader 8, Ted says that some-one noticed that the “Louis Pasteur” was listing. To “List” can mean a ship leaning over to one side. To List can also mean to write things one after another down a piece of paper.

1 Write a sentence using list, meaning a ship leaning over.

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2 Write a sentence using list, meaning to put things one after another down a piece of paper.

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Word Search

C F N Y R A B T N O D N B O U N C E S R

A S U M K D G R H H

M E L O N G O R O J A M L M Y O O K U A

G D E E D L I F T R

E I T T I B V S L K D F U A D S P I E S

X O S L P H H L U G

D T U W S U N K H S

Find the words from “Ricochet!” in Reader 8, hidden in this puzzle. The Words go Across, Down, and Slanting Up or Down. There may be other words that we didn’t see. Have a look.

OUTDOORS METAL

BOUNCES BULLET

NOISE SHOUT

SPIES SAILOR

DAMAGED SUNK


Have a look at the story “A bad mistake” in Reader 8. Words have been left out in the same story on this page. From the way you understand the story, put them in the blank spaces.

A bad mistake


The “Louis Pasteur” was still sinking. The sea-cocks in the ____________ room had to be __________________. A party of ___________________ were __________________ to do that. Then the _____________________ was pumped out of the ____________________. The Vichy French and German __________________ who had tried to __________________the ship were all rounded up. A lighter came out to __________________ them off to shore. There they would be sent to __________________camps. These men __________________ us on their way to the lighter. One of them did something very __________________. He __________________ at my mate. I have ___________________ seen anyone ________________ so fast with the butt of a rifle. The man who spat crashed to the _________________ holding his face. They had to carry him to the lighter.



True or false

Read the story “Unexpected” by Ted Miller. It is in Reader 8.


TRUE FALSE

Ted did not know enough to fix the chart table.

The table folded against the wall. No-one was in the room when Ted was working.

The captain tested how strong the table was. The captain expected Ted to talk to him.

Ted was wearing a badge that showed he knew how to fix things. The badge Ted had was on his chest.



Sounds the same, but isn’t

Some words sometimes sound the same, but don’t mean the same thing.

In the story “We need shipwrights” Reader 8, Ted says that the captain took his serial number. “Serial” means things that have something to do with each other, one after another. Your S.I.N. number is a serial number. Serial sounds just like the food many people eat for breakfast. That is “Cereal”.

1 Write a sentence using serial meaning things that have something to do with each other, one after another.

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2 Write a another sentence using cereal, the breakfast food.

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Have a look at the story “Smoking along!” in Reader 8. Words have been left out in the same story on this page. From the way you understand the story, put them in the blank spaces.

Smoking along!


I served on Royal Navy ships for some of the war. ___________________ the way overseas we were ____________________ a large liner. This ship could go ___________________ twenty-two knots ___________________ more. We tried __________________ join a convoy of much slower ships. This was ___________________ the convoy escorts would guard us too. However, we were told to clear ___________________. The escorts had to look _________________ the slow ships. We __________________ the convoy and steamed fast for England. Sure __________________, a German submarine tried to sink us. It was __________________ us. To go faster, it was ___________________ the surface. We were going __________________ fast as we could to get _________________. The smoke from the boilers was so hot that the paint was burning off the funnels!



Word Search

D H C A T C H S R J M T O W A R D S A T

B V M J A R S P I R

E D I N S I D E D A Y E N C L O H E G C

T A G I K S P D M K

C L O S E P D F P J T A R F O R E V E R

F U H T U K L E I O

A B S Q F U E L T Y

Find the words from “A tense time!” in Reader 8, hidden in this puzzle. The Words go Across, Down, and Slanting Up or Down. There may be other words that we didn’t see. Have a look.

CATCH CLOSE

COMING SPEED

INSIDE FUEL

STOPPED TRACK

TOWARDS FOREVER



What’s going on?

Read “Distant guns” from Reader 8. From what you understand of the story, write sentences to answer the questions.

A submarine tried to catch us. We were more than half way across the Atlantic Ocean. Not far away were the Azores islands. There were some of our planes on the Azores. We sent a radio message about the submarine. Soon, a flying boat came to help us. The submarine was still on the surface. It was still trying to catch us. The flying boat dropped some bombs. The flying boat however was hit by the submarine’s guns, and shot down. The submarine did not dive. This was odd. The submarine captain would want to get under the sea for safety. We then knew that it had been damaged, and could not dive. We could still see it behind us. A Royal Navy destroyer arrived before dark. We could see it and the submarine in the distance. There was a fight, and the submarine was sunk.


WHAT CLUES DOES THE TITLE GIVE YOU ABOUT THE STORY?

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WHAT DO YOU THINK THE PEOPLE ON THE LINER FELT WHEN THE FLYING BOAT WAS SHOT DOWN?

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ON ANOTHER PAPER WRITE HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THE END OF THIS STORY.


Find a way

To find your way to some place you don’t know well, it’s handy to have a map.

In “Nabob and Puncher”, Reader 8, Ted tells us about ships from Great Britain to Murmansk. The convoy routes are marked on this map of the Atlantic Ocean.

FIND GREAT BRITAIN, FIND MURMANSK. WHAT PLACE DO THE LINES GO TO FROM GREAT BRITAIN BEFORE GOING ON TO MURMANSK?

Maps often have a Key to show you things you need to know. The Key for this map is:

Convoys to Murmansk

To and from Britain

To and from Halifax

WHY DO YOU THINK THE CONVOYS WENT THE LONG WAY ROUND BY WAY OF ICELAND?


Reading between the lines

There are things to be found in a story that don’t stand out when you first read it. Finding these things is sometimes called “Reading between the lines”.

In the story “Nabob and Puncher”, Ted says that he joined the Navy Reserve in 1935. He says he was in the navy for 21 years.

IN WHAT YEAR DID TED LEAVE THE NAVY?

What we have to do is add 21 onto 1935. To save having to write the 19, we can just use the 35, and add 21 to it.

35 + 21 = ___

Now we can put the “19” back to get the year 19____

Let’s say Ted was 17 years old when he joined the Reserve. The war started in 1939. HOW OLD WAS TED WHEN THE WAR CAME?

He was 17 in 1935, and the war came in 1939. Again, leave the “19” out of it. This time we have to take away.

39 - 35 = ___

Now we add this to Ted’s age when he joined in 1935 which was 17

17 + ___ = ___

HOW OLD WAS TED WHEN HE LEFT THE NAVY? We add the years he was in, to his age when he joined.

21 + 17 = ___


Have a look at the story “A good sort” in Reader 8. Words have been left out in the same story on this page. From the way you understand the story, put them in the blank spaces.

A good sort


One time I was shipwright on a destroyer. We went _________________Great Britain to St. John’s, ___________________ The captain knew _____________ from earlier in the __________________. He said “You were at _________________, in the repair yard.” We talked __________________that a bit. I told him that both my _____________________ and my sister were working in the St. John’s __________________ yard. When we came to St. John’s, I had a real ___________________. As we __________________ to the dock side, there ____________________ for me were both my father and my sister! The captain had ___________________ a message ahead, and set up the meeting. He was a good sort, that captain.

Photo courtesy Ted Miller


Looks the same, but isn’t Some words sometimes sound the same, but don’t mean the same thing.

In the story “Gasp!” Reader 8, Ted says that ships have small round windows called “scuttles”. To “scuttle” a ship is to sink it by flooding it. “Scuttle” can also be the thing you put coal to bring it indoors. “Scuttle” is also a way crab move about. Write a sentence using “scuttle”, a small round window on a ship.

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Write a sentence using “scuttle”, to sink a ship.

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Write a sentence using “scuttle”, some-thing for coal.

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©2001www.arttoday.com Write sentence using “scuttle”, the way a crab runs. ________________________________________________________

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Have a look at the story “No fresh air” in Reader 8. Words have been left out in the same story on this page. From the way you understand the story, put them in the blank spaces.

No fresh air


As a Chief Petty Officer, my room on board ship was at the deck level. This was __________________ the officers and chiefs were ___________________. I had to ___________________with other chiefs. But, it was ______________ better ___________________ being “below decks”. The _______________sailors were __________________decks. There was not much __________________air for them. Things got _________________ hot and smelly _________________ there. This was ________________ in bad weather, ____________________ the men would get sea-sick. Think how that __________________, with people throwing up. Wouldn’t you want to open a ________________ if you could? Those sailors sure did!



What’s going on?

Read “Heavy metal” from Reader 8. From what you understand of the story, write sentences to answer the questions.

Heavy metal


When the war was over, I was overseas on a British warship. Now, it was going to transport troops back to Canada. The first thing to do was to take out all the ammunition. There was a lot of this. When that was gone, the ship was very much lighter. It turned out that it was so much lighter that it was dangerous. It was meant to have that weight! The troops did not weigh anything like as much as the shells! So, the troops were only let up on deck a few at a time. The fear was that if too many were on deck at once, the ship would tip over!

WHAT CLUES DOES THE TITLE GIVE YOU ABOUT THE STORY?

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WHEN YOU READ THAT THE MEN WEIGHED MUCH LESS THAN THE SHELLS, WHAT DID YOU FEEL?

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IS THIS A FUNNY STORY, OR ONE ABOUT DANGER AND FEAR? WHY?

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Your turn

The stories in Reader 8 are about people who were in the army or the navy . Someone who has been in the armed forces is called a Veteran. Write about your favourite story in the book. Say why you like it the best. How does it make you feel? What other stories made you feel something, mad? sad? glad? Why is this?

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