Sigmond Slitherforth (A Poem)
Sigmond Slitherforth
1. What might the surname ‘Slitherforth’ mean?
I think that it is his last name for a bit of a joke and slither because snails slither and forth because he has forty brothers and sisters.
2. What is the MAIN thing Sigmond did in each of the six chapters of this poem?
1. He got told of from hi love of speed. 2. He had to be like the others or he would have to leave. 3. He couldn’t take it anymore so he got banished. 4. He met a slug that said he could help. 5. The slug got sigmond to jump in a giant bucket full of oil, that made him really fast. 6. He zoomed past his family and he was a big suckses to make it all the way to space. He left a message to his family
3. New and tricky vocabulary. On a copy of this table complete the meaning for each of these words. LOOK at the text to help you work it out. Use a dictionary if you need to. Write the meaning in YOUR OWN WORDS, to show that YOU understand.
Word
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Page
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Meaning
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Distraught:
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Pg 7
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Frightened, scared, or upset.
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Dignity:
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Pg 8
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Having respect.
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Reformed:
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Pg 9
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Making changes in something.
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Antenna:
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Pg 9
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A small little pointy stick at the end of an insects head.
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Debating:
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Pg 11
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To argue about a subject like at court.
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Banished:
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Pg 11
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To be told to go away from somewhere and never come back, and that it was a legal for them to enter again.
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Mottled:
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Pg 13
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Something marked with colour.
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Emerged:
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Pg 17
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Came.
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Admonished:
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Pg 19
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A sign of not licking what someone has done in a rude and firm way.
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