Study Questions / Guide for DAWN

Here are questions for the last two chapters of DAWN. You test will come from all these questions (as well as questions on rules for commas, semi-colons, colons, dashes).


CHAPTER FIVE
1. What does Elisha imagine that the room is filled with?
2. What does the beggar tell Elisha about this night?
3. What does the little boy tell him?
4. Why is it significant that it is the boy who speaks?
5. How did John Dawson react when told he would die?
6. Why does Elisha not want to see Dawson eat?
7. What problem does Elisha think is worse than fear?
8. In what way does Ilana say that war is like night.
9. What other observations of war does she make?
10. After the war ends, what does Elisha think will remain?
11. What does he think the silent dead do?
12. What does he say the freedom nation is built upon?
13. Elisha says he is not a murderer but an idealist. How is this true?
14. In what way did he, as a youth, try to follow any idealist dream?
15 What do the presences symbolize as far as what makes a man?
16. What does the revolver symbolize for Elisha?
17. Why does he say that in an hour everything will be different?

CHAPTER SIX
1. What is ironic about the meaning of Elisha's name?
2. What does Elisha think the next day will bring him?
3. Why does John Dawson understand Elisha better than any human being?
4. What two burning sensations does Elisha feel?
5. Whom does Elisha picture when he tries to picture David Ben Moshe?
6. What experiences did Dawson's artistic hands make Elisha think of?
7. Is he right in saying, "Now our only chance lies in hating you, in learning the necessity and art of hate"?
8. What is the meaning of, "I've killed Elisha"?
9. What does he hear his mother say to him?

10. Explain the last line of the novel.

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Grammar Exercises

A) John owns a hat. John loves to wear hats. John's girlfriend likes to see John in cowboy hats. John's hero is John Wayne.

B) My shoes are Nikes. My Nike shoes are designed to play tennis. My Nikes have air soles. I like their weight.

READ 44-60.

Journal for DAWN

DUE: Wednesday - write a journal that contains three parts:

1) A summary of the book up to page 44.

2) A PREDICTION about what you think will happen.

3) What you would do if you were in Elisha's situation.

Sentence Combining and Grammar Exercises

Today - we're going to review punctuation, do some grammar exercises and write a journal about DAWN.

Combine each of the following into one sentence.

1) The bear was big. The bear broke open the garbage. The bear ate the left over pizza. Dan's father shot the bear. Dan cried.

2) Espionage is the secret collection of intelligent information. The history of espionage goes back over two thousand years. Espionage was started in China by Sun Tzu.

For the following correct the punctuation:


Put in semicolons, colons, dashes, quotation marks, where ever they are needed in the following sentences.

1. Several countries participated in the airlift Italy, Belgium, France, and Luxembourg.

2. Only one course was open to us surrender, said the ex-major, and we did.

3. Judge Carswell later to be nominated for the Supreme Court had ruled against civil rights.

4. In last week's New Yorker, one of my favorite magazines, I enjoyed reading Leland's article How Not to Go Camping.

5. Yes, Jim said, I'll be home by ten.

DAWN

To view a map of Israel click HERE.

Look over the places where DAWN takes place. What do you see?

Grammar Exercises

Here's a great website on the Dash.

Go HERE to test yourself on punctuation.

Today we are going to review compound and complex sentences.

Some real basic definitions for simple, compound and complex sentences can be found HERE

A more in-depth discussion of complex sentences can be found HERE

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Today we'll be taking notes on the DASH, and reading 30-40 in DAWN.

First let's begin with some grammar warm-ups. Please go here