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**By Mark Nestor Svendsen** 1. Outline the plot. //**- Josie**// 2. Find definitions. **- //Eleanor - Tori (Find at least five words//****//)//** 4. Write a list of questions that your group wants to discuss about the story. **- //Tori - Helena//** 6. Describe the setting **//- Eleanor//**
 * 3.** Your job is to find a connection between the short story you are reading and the outside world. //**- EVERYONES OWN**//
 * 5.** Choose a paragraph or sentence from the short story to analyse. //**- EVERYONES OWN**//
 * 7.** You're the illustrator! **//- EVERYONES OWN//**


 * Task One:

Task Two: Eleanor's Words** **Snared:** To be snared it means to be trapped. “The scurrying mouse was snared into the mouse trap as it could not resist the cheese.” Slunk:** To move or go in a furtive, abject manner, as from fear, cowardice, or shame. "She slunk againist the wall trying to not be seen." Task Three: **  **Helena:** The connections found between the short story and reality fall under the topics of Peer Pressure and Tall Tales resulting in bad endings. In the story three kids tell each other scary stories to impress each other much like in reality where by telling each other stories and making up fibs they compete to see can come up with the best story. In the ending of this story one of the kids dares the other two to enter the scary house, only one rises to the challenge and the other two set off to the house but never return. In reality these sort of situations occur where people dare each other to do things they are incapable of doing or are too scared too, and just like in the story most people fall under the peer pressure of it all either to prove the other wrong, or to make themselves look cooler. **Eleanor:** The connection I found to real life is that there are so many stories of witches, ghouls, vampires, spiders, bats, zombies, phantoms, spirits, leeches, wizards, werewolves and ghosts around these days. There are millions of scary movies around that after watching it makes you think twice about whether they are real or not. Also recently one of the biggest movies/books of all time “Twilight” involved the theory of blood-sucking vampires. The movie sucked in just about every 12 – 16 year old girl. Reading about these kids making up tales and fibs to scare their friends and all wicked scary fictional creatures, bring back many memories of books such as “Goosebumps” or even some types of themes in the beloved Harry Potter series. Killing Time is another great example of all these types of fictional characters.
 * Hoick:** To hoick something is to pull or lift something or somebody violently or suddenly. “She hoicked the jacket off the coat hanger so quickly the plastic coat hanger broke in half.”
 * Nonchalant:** To be nonchalant is to be calm and unconcerned about things. “Sarah was very nonchalant and calm when she was told about her favourite jeans getting ruin in the wash.”
 * Canny:** If you’re canny, you’re shrewd enough not to be easily deceived, not gullible. “John was canny when Andy told him he owes him $50, he didn’t believe him.”
 * Lilting:** A pleasant rising and falling variation in the pitch of a person's voice. “The girl’s voice was lilting as she chatted and flirted with the boys from down the road.
 * Victoria's Words
 * Achingly:** achingly is intense pain. "sam got treatment for his aching back."
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 * Victoria:** The novel “Killing time” is defiantly connected to the real world. In many towns there are mystical tales that young children make up, such as witches living next door, ghost and trolls ect. Also a major connection between the book and the real world is the boasting the child did about how he had heard and seen this about the witch only making it bigger and bigger lie, this is done at any age. Another major connection is the imagination of young children that will believe anything they hear.


 * Josie:

Task Four: ** For the questions we had about the book we have set up four discussions, four different questions where we have all commented on and answered in our own way. The link is: [] This will take you directly to our discussions all named "task four" that have been submitted by Helena and Victoria.

Eleanor:** The paragraph I am choosing to analyse is the second last one in the short story. It reads: //“Then Mrs Ferguson got up, slowly and achingly. Turning to the open window, she took aim and hurled the cane toad out into the dark, ashamed by what the night might have seen. Two schoolkids saw through her, eyes glittering and then they were gone.”// I selected it from the last page in the story. It is practically just summing the story up in a final twist. Seeing as the kids were making up terrible fibs (or so you think they were) about her, so finally, she supposedly takes revenge on them by making disappear into the deep darkness of the night. Does she turn them into dogs? Or does she have a cellar to keep them in under her house. We shall never know what happened to those two little rascals of boys. It is easy to assume that Ms Ferguson is a witch by the very detailed profile in this paragragh. The author has added a couple of similies into this paragragh such as "Ms Ferguson crept through the night //like a cat"// and also "Black as a crow" this shows that she must have been sneaky and secretive. This is in the prespective of the children. Task Six: ** The setting is described gives of a very eerie and scary vibe. The picture that forms in my head is that it’s at night, a full moon is shining and these three children are standing there shivering nott just because it’s icy cold but because they’re terrified. They’re standing out the front along an old picket fence that needs a couple palings to be replaced and a new paint job. They are looking at the directly at the run-down old weatherboard house that used to be a nice shade of cream but has faded in several places giving it an old whitish look, covered in dirt. The garden is destroyed with old dead plants fading away while the weeds flourish and bloom. The grass is growing wildly; looking like it hasn’t been mowed for weeks. They look inside to see curtains torn and hanging only by a couple hooks. There is rubbish everywhere and the glow of the television is lighting up the room. The two dogs bark, as giving you the appearance that if they were let off their chain they would rip you to pieces. The children all try to act brave and act as if they weren’t petrified but each time the dogs howled and whined they all shook in there boots. With every gush of wind the house shakes and creaks. As the two boys creep up the path, the gate creaks and slams behind them, as if it never wants to let them out. They step onto the porch which creaks and moans even louder. The boys knock on the solid timber door and as the girl blinks they vanish, never to be seen again. **By Eleanor.** Images from the internet of what I think it might look like:
 * Task Five:
 * Victoria: T**he paragraph that i have choose to analyse is a description of Ms Ferguson through the eyes of the children. It reads;
 * //" Ms Ferguson crept through the night like a cat, decked in black like an unlit christmas tree. Hair blown black and muttering muttering. With her slunk two dogs both black too. Black unhemmed dress, black shoes, black stockings and hat, or none at all, and her hair growing mad as unmown grass. Black as a crow she was, or the stretched elastic wings of flying foxes."//**
 * Josie:

OR This sketch includes the witch's house, the well that the witch used to change two men into dogs (also shown) and the two boys that dare each other to go to the house hiding behind logs.
 * Task Seven: **
 * Helena:**
 * Eleanor:** Given in by hand.
 * Victoria:** Given in by hand.
 * Josie:**