CURIOUS+INCIDENT+-+FRONT+COVERS

=//What might these front covers tell us about the novel?//=



=//What about the first chapter, Chapter 2? (Yes, Chapter 2!) What has happened? Who is speaking? What can we tell about the narrator?//=

2.

====It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears's house. Its eyes were closed. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the dog. The points of the fork must have gone all the way through the dog and into the ground because the fork had not fallen over. I decided that the dog was probably killed with the fork because I could not see any other wounds in the dog and I do not think you would stick a garden fork into a dog after it had died for some other reason, like cancer, for example, or a road accident. But I could not be certain about this. ==== ====I went through Mrs. Shears's gate, closing it behind me. I walked onto her lawn and knelt beside the dog. I put my hand on the muzzle of the dog. It was still warm. ==== ====The dog was called Wellington. It belonged to Mrs. Shears, who was our friend. She lived on the opposite side of the road, two houses to the left. ==== ====Wellington was a poodle. Not one of the small poodles that have hairstyles but a big poodle. It had curly black fur, but when you got close you could see that the skin underneath the fur a very pale yellowlike chicken. ====

I stroked Wellington and wondered who had killed him, and why.
=//And the second chapter, chapter 3? //=

**3. **
====My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,057. ====

Then she showed me this picture


====and I knew that it meant "happy," like when I'm reading about the Apollo space missions, or when I am still awake at 3 a.m. or 4 a.m. in the morning and I can walk up and down the street and pretend that I am the only person in the whole world. ====

but I was unable to say what these meant.
====I got Siobhan to draw lots of these faces and then write down next to them exactly what they meant. I kept the piece of paper in my pocket and took it out when I didn't understand what someone was saying. But it was very difficult to decide which of the diagrams was most like the face they were making because people's faces move very quickly. ==== ====When I told Siobhan that I was doing this, she got out a pencil and another piece of paper and said it probably made people feel very ====



====and then she laughed. So I tore the original piece of paper up and threw it away. And Siobhan apologized. And now if I don't know what someone is saying, I ask them what they mean or I walk away. ====

= TASK =


 * It has happened.**


 * Your parents and teachers were telling the truth after all.**


 * You have spent SO long on MSN and Facebook and txtng that you have lost the ability to speak standard English.**


 * Pretend that you can only communicate in text speak and smilies :-/**


 * In your new language, write a paragraph about something which made you very emotional - elated, despondent, perturbed, discombobulated or whatever. (Dictionary is here!) Post it on your wiki page.**


 * [|This]might help... try putting your history homework into it :-) But don't hand it in >:-(**
 * Then - read what you have written and write a paragraph (standard English this time) explaining whether you think non-standard English is better, worse or the same in terms of expressing yourself.**

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