Reading Group Assignment #1

Chapter I
Down the Rabbit-Hole
       Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”

Question 1 ABC- What does ‘tired’ mean?
Question 2 ABC – Why is Alice getting tired?
Question 3 ABC – Draw a picture of a bank.
Question 4 ABC – What is Alice’s sister doing?
Question 5 ABC – What does Alice think of that?

Group C can stop reading.

       So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

Question 6 AB- What does ‘considering’ mean?
Question 7 AB – Why is Alice feeling very sleepy and stupid?
Question 8 AB – What does ‘worth the trouble’ mean?
Question 9 AB – What are daises?
Question 10 AB – What suddenly happens?

Group B can stop reading.

       There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!” (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.

Question 11 A- What does ‘remarkable’ mean?
Question 12 A – What two things did Alice think are not very remarkable?
Question 13 A – What does ‘wondered’ mean and why did Alice not wonder at the talking rabbit?
Question 14 A – What makes Alice snap out of it?
Question 15 A – Draw a picture of the last scene.