WorksheetCloud: MEMORANDUM Grade: 5 Subject: English Topic: Kensuke’s Kingdom-Chapter 10 PART 1

Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo

Chapter 10 PART 1: Killer men come

1. What was the weather like after the turtle night? The rains came.

2. How had Kensuke’s paintings change?

Painted more from memory-his house, his family.

3. Why did he leave their faces unclear, indistinct? Remembered them, could hear them but couldn’t see them.

4. What was Stella growling/barking at? A junk.

5. What did Kensuke do when Michael told him about the boat?

Went to check for himself.

6. What was wrong with the boat? It was the monkey killers, the hunters.

7. Why didn’t it take Kensuke long to gather the orang-utans up? He just began to sing as they walked into the forest and they appeared.

8. Who was the one that didn’t appear? Kikambo, Tomodochi’s son.

9. As Kensuke was singing for Kikambo what did they hear? Outboard motor.

10. What did Michael compare Kensuke leading the orang-utan to safety to? The pied piper leading the children into a cave in the mountainside.

WorksheetCloud: MEMORANDUM Grade: 5 Subject: English Topic: Kensuke’s Kingdom-Chapter 10 PART 1

11. Why did Michael have to do in the end? Scoop up two of them and carry them.

12. As he began running, as the motor died, how did the forest react? It hooted and howled in alarm all around.

13. What did he hear as he reached the cave? First shots.

14. As the shooting went on how did Kensuke keep the orang-utans calm? By singing softly.

15. How did the young orang-utans react to all the shooting? Clung on to him, hid under his arms, his knees.