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DANNY
The Champion of the World

By Roald Dahl

CHAPTER 1 - "The Filling Station"

VOCABULARY:

champion - lavish - spokes - kerosene - gypsy - scruffy

rickety - bunk - caravan - engineer - bough

 

1. Who is telling the story?

2. Where do Danny and his father live?

3. What kind of job does Danny’s father have?

4. Find three (3) sentences in Chapter One that describe how Danny feels about his father.

a)

b)

c) 

5. Based upon the description in this chapter, draw a picture of the inside of Danny’s house.

 

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DANNY
The Champion of the World

By Roald Dahl

CHAPTER 2 -"The Big Friendly Giant"

VOCABULARY:

marvelous - stern - enormous - wheelbarrow - cavern - occasionally - stride

mysteriously - shrill - prowl - blowpipe - tremendous - gait - hedge

 

1. How can Danny tell if someone’s smile is for real?

2. Create a timeline and storyboard showing the activities of the "BFG’ in Chapter 2.

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DANNY
The Champion of the World

By Roald Dahl

CHAPTER 3 - "Cars and Kites and Fire Balloons"

VOCABULARY:

mechanic - grindstone - amazing - majestically - inevitable- interval - swoop - sapling

compliment - soar - sterno - stilts - meadow - tangled - crouch - boomerang

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 1. Why did Danny’s dad decide to wait two more years before sending
him to school?

2. Describe Danny’s world.  

3. List seven (7) things Danny’s dad taught him how to do, and draw a picture of each.

4. What is "Soapa"?

5. Why is Danny impatient to be nine?

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DANNY
The Champion of the World -

By Roald Dahl

CHAPTER 4 - "My Father’s Deep Dark Secret"

& CHAPTER 5 - "The Secret Methods"


VOCABULARY:

complicated - doze - aghast - ravenous - quirk - yearn - fetch - mania

faint - poach - rear - filthy - panic - pheasant - disgusted - sheepish

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1. Make an Open Mind showing what Danny thought when he awoke at night and found his dad gone.

2. What is Danny’s father’s deep dark secret?

3. What do the keepers do?

4. What is poacher’s bottom?

5. What are the beaters hired to do?

6. How does Danny’s dad feel about the rich men who rear pheasants?
( How do you know that? )

7. Make a storyboard to show the steps of Dad’s secret method of catching pheasant.
(a) The Horsehair Stopper     OR  (b) The Sticky Hat

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DANNY
The Champion of the World

By Roald Dahl

CHAPTER 6 - "Mr. Victor Hazell"
& CHAPTER 7 - "The Baby Austin"

VOCABULARY:

brewery - smug - precisely - indicate - estate - superior - wriggle - dread - snob - inspect 

prickly - swerve - glimpse - cozy - stealth(ily) - ruin - inflamed - twilight - petrified - immense

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1. Who is Mr. Victor Hazell?

2. Why doesn’t Danny’s father like Mr. Hazell?

3. What is meant by decarbonizing?

4. Explain why twilight is the best time to catch pheasant.

5. Why did Dad wear the navy blue sweater and peaked cap to go poaching?

6. What did Danny think when he woke up at 2:10 in the night?

7. Make an open mind to show Danny’s thoughts and feeling as he was driving the Baby Austin?

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DANNY
The Champion of the World

By Roald Dahl

CHAPTER 8 - "The Pit"

 

VOCABULARY:

queer - collapse - knuckles - accelerator - roost - shiver - jar (v.) - speedometer - ankle

tangle - support - approach - grasp - presumably - agony - anesthetic

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1. How did Danny find his father?

2. Describe the trap that the keeper made to catch poachers.

3. Why was it important that Dad get out of the trap before sunrise?

4. How did Danny get his father out of the trap?

5. Why did Dad let Danny drive the car back home?

6. Why would Danny’s father need to have an anesthetic?

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DANNY
The Champion of the World

By Roald Dahl

CHAPTER 9- "Doc Spencer"
& CHAPTER 10 - "The Great Shooting Party"

VOCABULARY:

retired - mooch - injection - plaster - patient - flabbergasted - loathsome

brood - astonished - surgery - blunt - infuriating - trousers - trout

stretcher - sneer - ambulance - diabolical - parcel - triumph

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1. Describe Doc Spencer’s method of catching trout?

2. What is Doc’s attitude about poaching?

3. How did Doc Spencer get even with Victor Hazell for kicking his dog?

4. How does Doc show kindness toward Danny?

5. What is the big event that Mr. Hazell holds every year?

6. Why does that make Danny’s dad "madder than a mackerel"?

7. What does Dad wish to do?

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DANNY
The Champion of the World

By Roald Dahl

CHAPTER 11 - "The Sleeping Beauty"

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1. Describe Danny’s idea about how to catch all 200 pheasants.

2. What does Dad mean when he says, "If this thing works, it will revolutionize poaching."?

3. Do you think the plan will work? Why? Why not?

4. What does "quarter the dose" mean?

5. What did they decide to call Danny’s method of catching pheasants?

6. Why did they decide to wait until Friday to carry out their plan?

7. Make a timeline and storyboard to show their plan of action. (See pages 95 & 96.)

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DANNY
The Champion of the World

By Roald Dahl

CHAPTER 12 "Thursday and School"

 

VOCABULARY:

autumn - erect - moustache - platoon - fascinating - commemorate - scarlet - repulsion

naturalist - coronation - corridor - insolent - vast - nectar - pact - apologetic

horde - butler - encourage - fury - expedition - aniseed - eclair - revolting

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1. What does Danny mean when he says that his dad is a true countryman?

2. What are skylarks, nightingales. partridges and grouse?
- What do they all do alike?

3. Draw a picture to show what you learn in this chapter about the following:

(Choose four 4.)

a) the weasel ................................... g) the guppy

b) crickets ....................................... h) the death’s head moth

c) grasshoppers ............................... i) birds

d) the vast hordes of insects ........... j) bees

e) the bullfrog ................................. k) the butler in some English

f) yellow clover butterfly country houses

4. describe the "drag hunt"

5. What is Mr. Snoddy’s deep dark secret?

6. Why do Danny and his friend make a pact not to tell the other children about Mr. Snoddy?

7. Why wouldn’t Danny ever bring his friends home to play?

8. What horrible thing happened to Danny at school?

9. How did Dad react when Danny told him what happened?

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DANNY
The Champion of the World

By Roald Dahl

CHAPTER 13 "Friday"
& CHAPTER 14 "In the Wood"

 

VOCABULARY:

knitted/knitting - squint - clearing - trance - extraordinary - anxiously 

nudge - flurry - saucepan - swap - transfixed - investigate - colossal

game - ecstasy - pungent - bulge - murky - swivel - conscious

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1. At the beginning of Chapter 13, Danny said. "I had snakes in my stomach the moment I opened my eyes on that Friday Morning." What do you think he means by this?

2. What extraordinary piece of news did Danny learn about his mother?

3. What is toad-in-the-hole?

4. What time were they planning to leave for Hazell’s Wood?

5. What does the law say about wild birds and other wild game?

6. Create a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast how Dad felt and how Danny felt as they were in the wood planting the raisins.

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DANNY
The Champion of the World

By Roald Dahl

CHAPTER 15 - "The keeper"
& Chapter 16 - "The Champion of the World"

 

VOCABULARY

hover - incredible - nuisance - peculiar - superbly - Labrador - eerie - limp 

suspended - pomegranate - suspicious - sacks - plummet - loiter - lurking - taxi

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1. Write the lines that tell how Dad was feeling as he and Danny waited for the darkness to fall.

2. What is a Cox Orange Pippen ?

3. Who is Mr. Rabbets?

How did Dad react when he saw Mr. Rabbetts?

4. Once they were back in the wood, Dad began to wonder about their plan. Why did he say, "I should have tested it with the rooster." ?

5. Soon they found out that their plan did work. How many pheasants did they collect, and how did they carry all of those pheasants?

6. Who is Charlie Kinch, and why did he come to the wood?

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DANNY
The Champion of the World

By Roald Dahl 

CHAPTER 17 - "The Taxi"
& CHAPTER 18 - "Home"

 

VOCABULARY

astounded - vicar - prance - equipment - crafty - vicarage

roasted - parsnips - aghast - survey - succulent - freezer

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1. Why did Dad call Danny The Champion of the World ?

2. What did Dad plan to do with all of those pheasants?

3. Who is Enoch Samways, and why is Danny afraid of him?

4. Who is Mrs. Grace Clipstone?

5. What does she have to do with the poaching of pheasants?

6. Why did they have to leave the pheasants at the coal shed instead of taking them home to the filling station?

7. Why did Dad decide to buy:

a) an oven?

b) a deep freezer?

8. What three (3) things must you always have with roasted pheasant?

a)

b)

c)

9. Draw a picture of a Spit, and explain its purpose.

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DANNY
The Champion of the World

By Roald Dahl 

CHAPTER 19 - "Rockabye Baby"
& CHAPTER 20 - "Good-bye Mr. Hazell"

 

VOCABULARY

genius - frantic - hush - constable - ridiculous - shriek - dismount

scoundrel - convert - lubricate - neutral - absurd - conjuror - squat

rogue - infernal - cargo - resplendent - entice - uproar

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1. Read the whispered conversation (on page 163) between Dad and Doc Spencer.

a) What did Dad tell the Doctor?

b) How did Doc Spencer react to the news?

2. How did Mrs. Clipstone plan to deliver the pheasants?

3. What went wrong with the plan?

4. Write a paragraph describing this event from the point of view of

5. Make a timeline and storyboard for Chapter 20.

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DANNY
The Champion of the World

By Roald Dahl

CHAPTER 21 - "Doc Spencer’s Surprise"
& CHAPTER 22 - "My Father"

 

VOCABULARY

astonishing - varmint - luscious - thoroughbred

mare - porch - terrace - lounge

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1. Why was Mrs. Clipstone upset?

a)

b)

2. What was Doc Spencer’s surprise?

3. How did Dad and Danny decide to spend Saturday?

a) First go to  ______________ in order to _________________.

b)Then go to ______________ in order to _________________.

4. I would / would not (circle one) recommend this book to my friends because:

a)

b)

c)

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Final Book Project

 

Write a story about "Dad & I" or "Mom & I" that tells about an adventure you experienced with one of your parents. Use the Creative Story Writing guide. (individual) Use PowerPoint or Hyperstudio to publish your story.

Groups select one project below to complete.

1. Create a board game that sequences the entire story. Include the following elements:

2. Create a comic book that illustrates the story. Show the main events that occur in the story and the things that Danny learned from his dad.

3. Make character puppets and perform a puppet show of the story. You must write the script. Include the facts about nature.

4. Create a diorama depicting four scenes form the story.

5. Use the Puzzle Maker to create a giant crossword puzzle making use of the vocabulary you learned from reading this book.

 

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