Key words

Character
Relationship
Personality
Significant
Quotes
Peaceful
Tommo
Charlie
Private Peaceful
Chapter 8 - Fourteen Minutes Past Two
This lesson we will:
✔ Analyse key quotations
✔ Develop group discussion and
debating skills
Starter

Re read pg 94/5 and the description of the soldiers who have signed up.
What does it tell us about people's hopes, expectations and attitudes towards the
war and the soldiers?
Select and annotate 3 quotations to support your ideas.
Reading – Chapter 8 - Activity 1 – Questions to consider
p106-121 1) What atmosphere is created in the opening of
this chapter?
Make sure you are following 2) What is your impression of training?
along! 3) What do you think of Sergeant Hanley?
When reading Chapter 8 try think 4) What do you think of Charlie’s reaction to him?
about the theme of war and how 5) Why do you think Morpurgo creates this
Morpurgo addresses it. relationship between the two characters? Use
evidence to support your opinion.
6) What do Charlie’s actions show about his
character?
7) How might Tommo feel seeing Charlie being
punished?
8) Do you think the treatment and punishment of
the soldiers was fair?
 ANALYSING QUOTES
How do you think Morpurgo is wanting us
to feel about the military?

Find a quote that shows us this.

 Analysing quotes
“They marched past me, arms swinging in perfect
time, buttons and boots shining, the sun glinting on Let’s focus on:-
their bayonets.” 1. Techniques
“Sergeant Horrible Hanley, our chief tormentor… 2. Word choice
makes all our lives a misery” 3. Attitudes
“Hanley was nasty but he wasn’t stupid” 4. Effects
“Even more pain, even more fury, even more 5. Reader
punishment” response
“Mutiny was punishable by death, by the firing
squad”
Activity 1 – Group Discussion
We are over half way through the book and we are only just beginning to learn
about World War One…
You have 5 minutes to come up with bullet points that answer the following
question…

Is Private Peaceful a pro-war novel or an anti-war novel?

Make sure you have a number of points ready, as we will then discuss/debate
this answer as a class.
Activity 2 - exam style questions - fiction reading
 Activity 2 - exam style questions - answers
1. a) Compound noun

b) another — that came later/ khaki costumes — I never did get to wear the
scarlet uniform/ hoping for — how to iron creases in/ in time — all except for little
Les James

The dashes show the speaker’s thought process and add further information

c) the speaker’s attitude is positive/lighthearted/amused

d) khaki

2. a) Simile

b) the reality of war hasn’t sunk in/ feels like childish games/ training is made to
be fun
 Activity 2 - exam style questions - answers
3. Exclamation marks/ short sentences/ repetition/ shouting

4. They didn’t want to face the truth of war/ laughed and mocked to hide
their true feelings/ scared deep down but didn’t show it

5. we were back to play-acting/ war games/ still warm with summer/ “We’re
much alike, bee, you and me,”

Sees war as a game/ playing like children/ focuses on summer warmth and
happy memories/ talks to a bee

6. The reality of war has hit him/ no more games and training/ death and
tragedy is coming their way/ foreshadows the doom of war
Activity 3 – Training to be a Private p115-121.
Pick out and list all of the difficulties of being training. Copy and complete the
table below.
Difficulty Evidence
Verbal abuse of soldiers by superiors. “You nasty little worm!”
Activity 4 - Review writing
Success Criteria:
Your task:- ★Title and subheadings
Write a review about training to be a private, ★Introduction
either from Charlie or Tommo’s point of view. ★Overview of the
❏ Summarise the overall training training
❏ Zoom in on key parts of the training
★Describing the
❏ How were you and the others treated?
❏ What was the worst part? different elements of
❏ Would you recommend it? To who? training
Why/why not? ★Personal opinion - best
and worst bits
Include a range of persuasive devices ★Conclusion -
Adapt your language recommendations and
who it should be aimed
Use complex sentences
at
Use ambitious adjectives to show your ★Star Rating (out of
personal opinion
five)
 Success Criteria: WWW: I have included…
★Title and subtitles and …
★Introduction EBI: Next time I will…
★Overview of the training
★Describing the different people and elements of training
★Personal opinion - best and worst bits
★Conclusion - recommendations and who it should be
aimed at
★Star Rating (out of five)
 How many references to time can you spot in
the opening section of the chapter?
Plenary Why do you think this is important?

I keep checking the time. I promised myself I wouldn't, but I can't seem to help myself. Each
time I do it, I put the watch to my ear and listen for the tick. It's still there, softly slicing away
the seconds, then the minutes, then the hours. It tells me there are three hours and forty-six
minutes left. Charlie told me once this watch would never stop, never let me down, unless I
forget to wind it. The best watch in the world, he said, a wonderful watch. But it isn't. If it was
such a wonderful watch it would do more than simply keep the time - any old watch can do
that. A truly wonderful watch would make the time. Then, if it stopped, time itself would have
to stand still, then this night would never have to end and morning could never come. Charlie
often told me we were living on borrowed time out here. I don't want to borrow any more time.
I want time to stop so that tomorrow never comes, so that dawn will never happen.

I listen to my watch again, to Charlie's watch. Still ticking. Don't listen, Tommo. Don't look.
Don't think. Only remember.
 PEE
Extra
A level C PEE will:
✔ Make a clear point about A level A PEE will: A level A* PEE will:
the book ✔ Make a detailed point about
✔ Make a detailed point what the author is doing /
✔ Use a good quote
about what the author trying to do using technical
✔ Explain what the quote
is doing / trying to do words.
suggests in good detail ✔ Use an interesting quote that
✔ Use an interesting
you can say 2 things about
A level B PEE will: quote that they can ✔ Explain what a word in the
✔ Make a clear point about say 2 things about quote suggests in detail.
what the author is doing / ✔ Explain what a word in ✔ Explain what it also suggests
in detail.
trying to do the quote suggests ✔ Explain what it makes the
✔ Pick an interesting quote ✔ Explain what it also reader think and feel and
✔ Explain what some words suggests why.
in the quote suggest ✔ Explain what it makes ✔ Compare it to another key
✔ Explain what it makes the word / quote and evaluate
the reader think and
reader think or feel how effective they are.
feel and why
 RATE MY PEE
Michael Morpurgo uses verbs to describe the
military. We can see this when it says “They
marched past me in perfect time”. The word
‘marched’ suggests that they are a very powerful
force. This could also suggests that they are
determined, ordered and respected. This makes
the reader feel that the military are to admired,
and that Tommo could be tempted to sign up.
 RATE MY PEE
Michael Morpurgo describes the
military. We can see this when it says
“They marched past me in perfect
time”. This shows us that they are
powerful and disciplined because they
are marching in perfect time.
 RATE MY PEE
Michael Morpurgo uses verbs to describe the military. We can
see this when it says “They marched past me in perfect time”.
The word ‘marched’ suggests that they are a very powerful force
because we associate it with discipline. It could also suggest that
they are determined and unstoppable. This makes the reader
feel admiration for the army, and think that Tommo could be
tempted to join. This is reinforced with the word ‘perfect’.
Morpurgo wants us to see the military as an impressive, flawless
group so that we feel as in awe of them as Tommo does.
 PEE: How do you think Morpurgo is wanting us to feel
about the military?
POINT:
Michael Morpurgo uses verbs to describe the
One sentence that makes a statement /
military. We can see this when it says “They
gives a fact about the book or a character.
marched past me in perfect time”. The verb
The author presents ……..
‘marched’ suggests that they are a very
powerful force because we associate it with
EVIDENCE: discipline. It could also suggest that they are
Give a relevant quote from the book. determined and unstoppable. This makes the
reader feel admiration for the army, and think
EXPLANATION:
Pick out keywords from the quote and that Tommo could be tempted to join. This is
explain what they suggest reinforced with the adjective ‘perfect’.
Explore multiple connotations. Morpurgo wants us to see the military as an
Explain the effect on the reader impressive, flawless group so that we feel as
Challenge: can you link to the context of in awe of them as Tommo does.
WW1 and propaganda?
 WORK CHECK
✔Point is one sentence long
✔It makes a statement / gives a fact about the book
✔Used quotation marks around the evidence
✔Picked about a key word and explained what it
suggests
✔Said what it might also suggest
✔Said what it makes the reader think or feel