Under the Hawthorn Tree

Activity Book

3rd and 4th Class

  1. Write about your favourite part of the novel. You must mention why you picked this part as your favourite.

______

  1. Now write about your least favourite of the novel and explain why you chose this particular part.

______

  1. There are three main characters in this novel. Write about your favourite character and explain why. Use examples from the book to add to your answer.

______

  1. Imagine you are Eily and you are writing a diary entry on the night that Peggy fell ill with the fever. Describe how you feel?

______

______

  1. Short Questions!

(Write answers beside questions on sheet)

  1. What was the children’s father called?
  2. Who ran into the classroom to get his brother?
  3. What were the girl’s bedclothes called?
  4. What did Mother send the children to Mary Kate for?
  5. What did Mary Kate give the children?
  6. Who was Dan Collins?
  7. Where was Bridget buried?
  8. What type of an animal was Moses?
  9. What did Mother bring to the village to trade?
  10. What was in the large sack that Mother brought home?
  11. Who gave Eily’s mother a dance lesson for her birthday/
  12. What flowers were on the top of Mother’s birthday cake?
  13. Who was Michael’s friend?
  14. Did the children’s grandaunts get married?
  15. Before they left home the children had decided to travel to a certain place. Where?
  16. Did Tom Daly see the children run away from the walk to the workhouse?
  17. Who was Mary Kate pretending to look for when the children were in the bushes?
  18. Where did Michael hurt himself?
  19. What dead animal did Peggy find?
  20. How many cups of soup had the children have at the soup kitchen? (each)
  21. Where did Joseph hope to travel to?
  22. What toy did Peggy wish she had?
  23. What did Michael use to catch the fish?
  24. Where did Peggy get bitten by the dog?
  25. How many soldiers were minding the caravan?
  26. Where was the grain going to?
  27. What did the kind sheep farmer give the children?
  28. What type of storm did the children encounter?
  29. What did the storm bring to the children?
  30. What did Eily give Peggy when she got the fever?
  31. Who did Peggy call out for when she was sleeping?
  32. Was the workhouse that Michael went to see full?
  33. What did Michael find on his way back to the workhouse?
  34. What did Michael and Eily do with the cow?
  35. Did Peggy recover from the fever?
  36. What did Michael give Peggy as she awoke from the fever?
  37. What was behind the high wall of the great house?
  38. What was behind the white gate inside the wall?
  39. Who went in to gather some food?
  40. What did she use to gather it with?
  41. Who was driving a pony and trap along the road?
  42. Did he offer them a lift?
  43. Was it day or night when they reached castle taggart?
  44. Did they find their aunts straight away?
  45. Where did they sleep that night?
  46. What two people gave them directions to find their aunts?
  47. Which aunt did they meet first?
  48. Where was the other aunt?
  49. What did the children get to eat?
  50. What would the children always miss and never forget?
  1. The children met a boy called Joseph T. Lucy at the soup kitchen. He was hoping to travel to Liverpool for a new life.

Write a letter from Joseph to his mother about his new life away from the famine in Ireland.

Hints:

- How he was treated by the English people

-The type of work he was doing

-Where he was living

-Other Irish people he met

-What he missed about home

-How much money he was sending home with the letter

  1. Illustrate the chapter ‘The Dogs’ in three pictures.

1.
2.
3.
  1. Write a newspaper report on the incident with the soldiers and the cart of grain.

______

  1. After reading the last chapter of the book, imagine there was another chapter. Write the first page of the next chapter.

WELL DONE!!!