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Mr. Harris and the Night Train Jennifer Bassett

Mr. Harris and the Night Train Jennifer Bassett. Preparing for the Reading Circle St Bonaventure College 16 January. Beginning (p.22).

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Mr. Harris and the Night Train Jennifer Bassett

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  1. Mr. Harris and the Night TrainJennifer Bassett Preparing for the Reading Circle St Bonaventure College 16 January

  2. Beginning (p.22) Mr. Harris liked trains. He was afraid of aeroplanes, and didn’t like buses. But trains – they were big and noisy and exciting. When he was a boy of ten, he liked trains. Now he was a man of fifty, and he still liked trains.

  3. Ending (p.28) Harris did not take the train back to Helsinki. The bus was slow, and there were a lot of people on it, but Harris was very happy. He didn’t want to take the night train across Finland again. Why?

  4. Main characters fifty-year old, liked trains, liked to read Mr. Harris Carl Elena

  5. What - The diamond necklace • Can you imagine how the diamond necklace looked like? (Did you watch the TV series ‘The Gem of Life - 珠光寶氣’?) zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/珠光寶氣 http://drama.tvb.com/thegemoflife/ 2. Who owned the diamond necklace? 3. What did Carl want to do with the diamond necklace?

  6. Highlights - scenes P. 24 Mr. Harris wanted to hit him. (Why? Who was he?)

  7. P.25 The colour of the seat began to change to red, and the diamond necklace fell from Carl’s hand on to the floor. Why did the colour of the seat change? What happened?

  8. P.25 There was no dead body of a young man. There was no young woman…no blood, no knife, no diamond necklace Why? What did Harris see then?

  9. The guard’s story Try to retell the guard’s story in your own words. ‘Elena di Saronelli died about eight years ago. ……………………………………….. ……………………………………………… ………………… What Mr. Harris saw was ……..’

  10. Reading Circle : something different?Be focussed Discussion Leader : How would you assign the roles this time? Summariser: Will you focus on Mr. Harris’s experience or the guard’s story? Why? Word Master: Can you focus on the action words? Passage Person: Will you focus on the history or the action scenes of the story? Why?

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