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An Eagle In The Snow Teaching Resources – PowerPoint Presentation
An Eagle In The Snow This is the extraordinary story of the man who could have stopped WW2. It’s 1940 and Barney and his mother, their home destroyed by bombing, are travelling to the country when their train is forced to shelter in a tunnel from attacking German planes. There, in the darkness, a stranger on the train begins to tell them a story about Billy Byron, the most decorated soldier of WW1, who once had the chance to end the war before it even began, and how he tried to fix his mistake. But sometimes the right thing is hard to see – and even harder to live with…
After The Air Raid When at last the All Clear siren sounded and the terror was over and we came up out of the shelter – how many hours we were down there I do not know – we found the world about us a place of rubble and ruin, hot with fires that were still smouldering everywhere. Mulberry Road, what was left of it, was filled with acrid smoke that hung like a fog around us and above us. There was no good air to breathe, no sky to see. Hoping against hope, we made our way home, to our house at the end of the road. But we had no house. We had no home.
Q: How Q: What doesother Michael descriptive Morpurgodevices make use does ofhe different use to create sentence Q: How might Barney feel when he sees the scene? structures atmosphere? to create atmosphere?
Exploring Vocabulary Mulberry Road, what was left of it, was filled with acrid smoke that hung like a fog around us and above us. Q. Why might Michael Morpurgo havebe? chosen this Q. What might acrid smoke word to describe the air?
An Eagle In The Snow This is the extraordinary story of the man who could have stopped WW2. It’s 1940 and Barney and his mother, their home destroyed by bombing, are travelling to the country when their train is forced to shelter in a tunnel from attacking German planes. There, in the darkness, a stranger on the train begins to tell them a story about Billy Byron, the most decorated soldier of WW1, who once had the chance to end the war before it even began, and how he tried to fix his mistake. But sometimes the right thing is hard to see – and even harder to live with…