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Chapter 1: The Town -P3-6 opening extract.

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Chapter 1: The Town -P3-6 opening extract.

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1. Why is Beth’s father so upset?
Beth's father is upset because her father died in a car crash caused by the aunty.
2. What did Aunty Viv and Aunty June mean when they told Beth she’d see her mother again ‘on another side’? Did Beth believe them?
Aunty Viv and Aunty June told Beth that she'd see her mother again 'on another side.' They meant that they believe there's another place, like a spiritual world, where people go after they die. Whether Beth believes them or not depends on her own beliefs.
3. What do you think Beth’s Grandpa Jim meant when he said “Life doesn’t move through time, Bethie. Times moves through life”?
When Grandpa Jim said, "Life doesn't move through time, Bethie. Time moves through life," he meant that the way we experience time is shaped by our life experiences. Time is not as important as the things that happen in our lives.
4. When Beth describes her father as having “a lost expression [she’d] come to hate”, what do you think that tells us about Beth’s feeling towards her dad’s grief?
When Beth describes her father as having "a lost expression [she'd] come to hate," it means she doesn't like to see her father so sad and confused. She wishes he could feel better, but his grief is difficult for her to handle.
5. In the final paragraph of the extract, describe Beth’s protectiveness over her father.
In the final paragraph, Beth is shown as being very protective of her father. This means she cares about him a lot and wants to make sure he's okay. She wants to keep him safe and help him through his difficult times.

Sample Summary
Beth's father is so upset because he has lost his daughter, Beth, in a car accident. He is struggling to come to terms with the loss and 'stuck in grief' over it. Beth is protective over her father and she describes him as having a 'lost expression [she'd] come to hate.' meaning that she is effected by the pain he is feeling. He can still see her as a ghost - which is a sign of both of them not being ready to let go. She believes she must watch over him while he heals and so it doesn't become too much for him. Beth's Aunties talk of her seeing her mother 'on another side' in the after life (as her mother died years earlier. Although Beth hadn't seen her yet, she knew she would (when she left her dad). When Beth’s Grandpa Jim said “Life doesn’t move through time, Bethie. Times moves through life”, he means that life happens and you have to go with whatever will be.

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Which Chapters?

Chapter 6 - The Beneath P 47-52

Chapter 7 The Truths P58-67 (teacher will have done P55-57 as intro)

The Cop P132-142

Summary
-she gets taken and trapped
-she hears her mums voice again to help her escape
-the fetchers take her to where they keep the "colours" (indigenous Australians) and give her something to make her vision go fuzzy and pass out.

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Opening excerpt from 3-6.
The Sunset - Page 29 - 35 - This is the first prose chapter from Catching.
The Witness - p21-28
The Beneath p. 47-52
The Truths - p55-57
The Deaths P98-102
The Feed and The Grey P109-117
The Dream P155-163
The End From Page 180 onwards until the end of the book.

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Which chapters?

Chapter 5 - The Other Place P 36-46

1. Isobel talks about her world being drained of colour. Why is it lacking colour?  The lack of colours represent...

Isobel talks about lacking colour because her mother is gone.

2. Isobel says "My heart is hollow". What do you think it is that she is missing? (Which emotion?)

She is missing the love of her mother so her heart is hollow instead of being filled with love.

3. How does Isobel describe the 2 figures on the cliff?

Isobel describe the 2 figures as “ they’ve got wings. Leathery. Grey”, “Long robes, which hide their heads and bodies . Their faces are covered by white masks with human features. P.43

4. Catching is described as having colour and being a 'little rainbow'. The fetchers seem to take an interest in this. Why do you think Isobel is seen to be beautiful?

Because Isobel has colour on her, but the two fetchers don’t “ she has colour” “bright” P.44. It is her innocence and youth that the Fetchers are interested in.

5. The passage ends with her saying she has been 'fetched' what do you think this means?   Catching feels scared and has been kidnapped.

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Isobel talks about when she turns into her personal totem (a bird)

To distract her about her mum dying

She talks about the dugong under the Children ‘Home’

She tries to remember something else traumatic that happened during the dugong.

She talks about how her body hurts

The Station P68-78

The Colours P121-131

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Which chapters?

Chapter 2 - The Home P 13-20

The Deaths P90-98 (teacher will finish next part from 98-102)

The Catching and The Escape P164 - 172

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1. When Beth says 'there's more to the world that what most people saw' what is she referring to?
She is trying to say that there is a spiritual world but not just the normal world that exists. where physical people can go into the spiritual world.

2. Michael can tell that Catching no longer wants to talk about her ordeal, why do you think she can't continue?
We think she cant continue because she is traumatised, In the chapter before this she in the beneath, it is a secret room underneath the childrens  home and it where the abuse takes place. The abuse it traumatic and that's why she doesn't want to talk about it. The trauma may be affecting her memory - she is disassociating as a response to the abuse.

3. The hospital says that her mother is coming to get her, but Catching had previously told us that her mother died in a storm. Why was she 'telling the truth in a different way?
She cant revel the truth because she is traumatized - she also uses metaphors perhaps because she is unable to face the horrors of what she went through.

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First prose chapter from Catching.
1. How does Catching handle anger?

2. Who does she think of to control her 'fire'?
3. When Isobel thinks of these people she says 'in [her] heart, she can breathe.' What does this mean?
4. What happened to Isobel and her mother in the storm?
5. What happened to Isobel's Nanna?

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Which chapters?

Chapter 1 - The Town P 7-12 (teacher will have done 3-6 as intro.)

The Prisoner - P105-108

The Story P143-147

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Which chapters?

Chapter 3 - The Witness P21-26

The Missing P79-89

The Two - P151-154

The End P175-179 (teacher to read P180 onwards to class)

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I really like piecing together the story as more information is learnt about the town and what has happened there.

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Students completed a 'fill in the gap' summary activity on these chapters.

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Students completed a 'fill in the gap' summary activity on these chapters.

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Literary Circles are group reading sessions in which your group reads certain parts of the book and then discusses what has happened. Each member should have a chance to share their reflection. 

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Literary Circles are group reading sessions in which your group reads certain parts of the book and then discusses what has happened. Each member should have a chance to share their reflection. 

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Each reading session will involve a task to complete. It is a group effort that requires a lot of collaboration, one of our key school values.

The task should be completed as a team, with one person scribing the responses on the padlet after team discussion.

Each circle (or group) will report back to the class on what has happened in their chapter/excerpt so that the class can better understand the text. The 'reporter' must be a different person to the scribe.

Each person will then complete a summary of their own.

Literary Circles with a ghost story can be like solving a big puzzle!

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ACTIVITIES
1.  When Isobel says the earth opened and swallowed her and the Fetchers, where do you think they have gone?
the "Fetchers" took here to the dungeon beneath the home where they mistreated the kids of the home.

2. Find a quote (or 2)  from Isobel that shows what they think of her.
"you're good at fixing, you will make her shiny and new."

3. Why doesn't Isobel fight back?
There was no way out at the moment to she decided to save her energy until there is an opportunity for her escape and her wrist is broken. In addition, the Fetchers have drugged Isobel.

4. How do the Fetchers describe their role on page 50?
the fetchers cant keep the colours," they get them, give them but never keep them." they are for the big boss (Alexander Scholt).

5. What do the Fetchers do to Isobel once she is inside?
they drugged her and gave her anesthetic, they are trying to clean her up to give her to "the boss"

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The Town - P 7-12 (teacher will have done 3-6 as intro.) 

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The Town - P 7-12 (teacher will have done 3-6 as intro.) 

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ACTIVITIES
1. Where had the fire taken place?
2. What was found in the fire?
3. Who did they think was the corpse?
4. What happened to the director?
5. Why hasn't Beth's dad spoken to her Aunty Viv lately?
6. What is it showing when Michael Teller says to Beth, "No one lost you more."

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ACTIVITIES

1. What was the suspected cause of the fire?

-That a child or someone deliberately caused/set the fire alight.

2. Why was noone overcome with grief about the fire?

-Nothing’s been the same for Beth Teller since she died. Her dad Michael, a detective, is the only one who can see and hear her – and he’s drowning in grief. But now they have a mystery to solve together.

3. Describe Catching's reaction to Michael.

-Catching was suspicious of Michael teller and didn't want to tell him her story because as a police man, she thought he wouldn't believe her.

4. When Michael tells Catching that he is there to listen, what is her reply?

-As Beth unravels the mystery, she finds a shocking story lurking beneath the surface of a small town, and a friendship that lasts beyond one life and into another.

5. Isobel is thinking about something. How does that make her feel? Provide a quote that supports your view.

-“I didn't know what could scare this fearless girl, but whatever it was it was no joke and no trick”

The summary- In this chapter, Beth is torn between her fear and her sense of responsibility. She knows she should help solve the crime, but it's not easy for her. Throughout the chapter, Beth's inner struggle is explored, and readers learn about her emotions and the challenges she faces.

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ACTIVITIES
1. Isobel talks about her world being drained of colour. Why is it lacking colour?
2. Isobel says "My heart is hollow". What do you think it is that she is missing? (Which emotion?)
3. How does Isobel describe the 2 figures on the cliff?
4. Catching is described as having colour and being a 'little rainbow'. The fetchers seem to take an interest in this. Why do you think Isobel is seen to be beautiful?
5. The passage ends with her saying she has been 'fetched' what do you think this means?

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ACTIVITIES
1. What was Beth's reaction to the crow?
2. What was the importance of Beth looking after her father?
3. Describe the children in the photo that Michael was looking at.
4. Who funded the Children's Home?
5. What were the roles of Nurse Flint and Director Cavanagh?
6. What was interesting about the children and the fire?
7. Who was found walking the land near the home?

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Students to complete a summary on chapters 1-3 using the literary circle notes to support their responses. 

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Students to complete a summary on chapters 1-3 using the literary circle notes to support their responses. 

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ACTIVITIES

1. How does Beth feel at the beginning of this chapter?

Beth felt trapped between two different sides of the world. she wanted to be free and be a butterfly like her aunt Viv used to call her.

"I still wanted to be a butterfly girl even if I couldn't fly away.

2. Why did Sarah's disappearance not get much attention?

Sarah's disappearance didn't get much attention because she was an indigenous Australian.

3. What was Michael's view on injustice and bad people being enabled by others?

Michael didn't like injustice because he hated people not getting treated fairly, he talked about how growing up in his fathers town has taught him that "one powerful person can do bad things but it takes lots of people to let it continue." this means that the town was enabling this unfair behaviour.

4. Michael breaks down about the loss of Beth in this chapter, how does he feel about her loss?

Michael felt like he had let her down. he failed to protect her and keep her safe.

5. What happened to Derek Bell?

Derek was killed, but there was no sign of forced entry.

"he wasn't unconscious, he was dead."

"he'd probably been stabbed, likely by the same people who had killed three other people."

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ACTIVITIES
1. Describe Isobel's friend in the beneath-place.
a girl who is grey,
2. Her friend tells her that she too will be drained of colour and full of screams. What do you think she is warning her about?
the fetchers
3. Crow has been there since the beginning and tries to help others. She says there is only one way people escape, what is it?
they have to die to escape

summary
the chapter is about how Catching being taken to thew beneath where she meets Crow. crow used to be a girl but she is now grey with long hair, long nails implying that she is dead. the Feed is the big boss and the Fetchers take the girls to the Feed. Crows colors have been taken away and Crow says the only way out of the beneath is death.

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ACTIVITIES

1. Explain what we learn about Oscar Scholt and his fear of the apocalypse. He thinks the end of the world is coming.

2. This leads to a suspicion that Alexander Sholt may have been involved in what? A legal activity.

3. What do we find out about Allie's friend Sarah? She's crow and she went missing 20 years ago.

4. Finish this sentence... They find a broken window upstairs and believe....

5. The chapter ends with another development. What happens?

Summary- Beth rejoins Michael and Allie in the car. As Allie drives, Michael asks whether she went to school with Derek and Alexander Sholt. She says she did, though they were a little older. Alexander went to boarding school for a while but returned after his grandfather, Oscar Sholt, spent too much of the family money preparing for the apocalypse he believed was coming. Alexander made a lot of that money back on the stock market as an adult. Beth, knowing Allie can't hear her, suggests that Alexander made the money back dealing drugs or committing other crimes. Allie praises Alexander Sholt’s charity, mentioning that some townspeople didn’t want him to set up the home. Others wanted to volunteer there, but unfortunately, they were told that by law, only people employed at the home could work there. Beth asks Michael whether that’s a real law. When he shakes his head slightly, she suggests that Alexander fabricated it to keep townspeople from the home.

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ACTIVITIES
1. Beth describes Catching's gaze as being 'so deep, like there was no end to the things she'd seen.' What does this mean? This mean that while she is glazing, what she is thinking has impacted her really hard causing her to stare like there is no end.
2. What do we discover about the re and those involved?

3. How does Beth describe her connection with Catching?

4. Describe Beth's impression of Derek Bell. Use two quotes to support this view.

Summary:

Beth, who doesn’t sleep, thinks all night. She decides to tell Michael that Catching can see her, in the hopes that Michael will become reinvested in the case and Catching’s story, which Beth suspects symbolises more “terrible” events than just rehab. Beth is sure that if Michael knows something harmful happened to Catching, he’ll help her, which will “help him too.” Beth worries that this plan could lead to Catching telling Michael that Beth has to move on, deepening his grief, but she doesn’t have a better idea.

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The Deaths P90-98 (teacher will ﬁnish next part from 98-102) 

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The Deaths P90-98 (teacher will ﬁnish next part from 98-102) 

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ACTIVITIES
1. The police uncover two victims of a stabbing. Who were they are what do we learn about their bodies?
2. Why do you think Michael sends for a team of officer's from the city?
3. Beth mentions that the way the children were treating in the home was 'not right'. What was stopping good people from being involved?
4. The location of the bodies is also the location of something else, what else happened here?

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The Truths P58-67 (teacher will have done P55-57 as intro) 

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The Truths P58-67 (teacher will have done P55-57 as intro) 

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ACTIVITIES
1. If Catching was abandoned by her mother, why would she have said that she had died?  because in her mind her mother was dead to her because she put her in rehab and left her.
2. What did Michael suspect Nurse Flint and Director Cavanagh of doing? Michael thought the nurse flint and john Cavanagh were embezzling money from the home and ran away when they knew there was going to be an investigation.
3. What do we learn about Catching and Beth when Beth storms back in to the hospital?  we find out that catching can see Beth and that ability was passed down all the women in her family, Beth found out that when spirits get a big surge of energy they can make things blow up and there is another world she needs to move onto but her dads holding her back.
4. Why does Catching have this ability? this ability was passed down through all the women in her family.
5. Why was the anger bubbling up inside of Beth?
she was getting angry because catching was saying that it is her dads fault she cant move onto the spirit world and she was being sarcastic saying things like, "oh so your going to hold his hand for the rest of his life" and "let me guess, you were going somewhere else but decided to stay for your sad old man."
6. What has made Beth cry by the end of the chapter? Can you link it o the quote "Hang about and hold your dad's hand for the rest of his life"?
Beth was upset because she started thinking about how her aunty used to call her 'butterfly girl' but she didn't feel like that anymore because she felt her dad was weighing her down. she felt like she had to stay and be there for her family but she couldn't. she kept thinking about what catching said, ("hang about and hold your dads hand for the rest of his life.") she started to feel like it was true.

summary
-Michael and Beth went to the hospital to see the witness to the fire. (Isobel catching)
-Isobel talks about her mother dying in a car accident
-the nurses say that child services have found her mother.
-Michael doesn't believe Isobel and says "I don't think she was lying, she was just telling the truth in her own way."
-Beth believes catching.
-Beth finds out Isobel can see her.
- Beth makes a light explode.

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Students to complete a summary on chapters 4-5 using the literary circle notes to support their responses. 

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Students to complete a summary on chapters 4-5 using the literary circle notes to support their responses. 

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ACTIVITIES
1. Michael asks Beth about the 'other place' and what does Beth tell him about her mother?
2. Catching appears more colourful, why do you think that is?
3. Explain the importance of Catching ancestral stories in aiding her survival.

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1. What is different about The Feed? Alexander Scholt is the feed, there's actually 2 feeds, sees mirror eyes of glasses . The fetchers are tom cavanagh and martin flint.

2. Isobe says she is turning into Crow. What does she mean?  She thinks she's dying

3. What do we learn at the end of this chapter? We learn that there is not 1 but 2 feeds.

Summary- In this chapter, we find out that there are two special feeds, which are like magical ways of seeing and knowing things. A guy named Alexander Scholt is connected to these feeds, and he looks at the world through special glasses with mirror eyes. Two people named Tom Cavanagh and Martin Flint help get information from these feeds.

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ACTIVITIES

1. Michael tells Catching that he can protect her and her friend. What is her reply? She didn’t want his help and believed that she could look after herself.

2. Catching uses her anger and sadness to tell Beth that she needs to move on. What do you think Beth is starting to realize? Find a quote in the last paragraph on page 125 to support this.   I believe Beth is reconsidering about staying with her father and crossing to the other side ‘You want to help somebody, Teller? Try yourself.’

3. Why does Catching only want to 'be heard'?  Catching only wants to be heard because the people might not support the way catching looks and would only listen to a voice and not a video.

4. I took all of Beth's energy not to cross over. Why was she fighting leaving her Dad? She was fighting leaving her dad so that her dad could continue to go on with life and not worry about his dead daughter.

summary:

Isobel catching is not telling Michael who has abused her and is not telling Beth and her dad the truth and what she's feeling. Beth wants to deny Catching, but she knows she can't, her death has made her and her dad permanently “different.” Catching looks at Beth's face, smiles a little, and tells her to leave for now. Catching keeps urging Beth to do what's best for herself, showing that she is a true friend to Beth.

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Students to complete a summary on chapters 6-7 using the literary circle notes to support their responses. .

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Students to complete a summary on chapters 6-7 using the literary circle notes to support their responses. .

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Catching's definition of friendship was that friends tell each other the truth even when it hurts.

Isobel says she had a friend in the beneath-place. But when her smile vanishes and her hand clenches we know that remembering her friend is painful because her friend underground had been good but told her things she didn't want to hear.  "Her friend had told her things that hurt." "Catching had been through something awful."

Isobel wants to 'be heard' because when she was in captivity she had not been listened to. Noone had cared for her wellbeing or safety and she is crying out for help now.

Isobel isn't ready to talk about the fire yet, she would rather discuss her friend, Crow. Instead of responding to the questions from Michael, she wants to talk about things her way because she needs to get it all of her chest now that she is trusting enough to tell someone. She's had to do whatever she was told for far too long in the 'beneath place'.

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The End P175-179 (teacher to read P180 onwards to class) 

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The End P175-179 (teacher to read P180 onwards to class) 

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ACTIVITIES

1. What does Catching reveal is 100 paces to the West?

2. Catching gains a lightness after being heard. Why?

3. What had Oscar Sholt built?

Summary- When Catching finishes, Beth realizes that the story has taken all day and all night it’s morning. Beth feels as though the story has altered her worldview, and Michael looks as bad as he did after Beth died. When he tells Catching how he’s sorry, she tells him again that he was “too late” to help and that “it” is about 100 steps “west.” Beth asks what that means, but neither Catching nor Michael explains.

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Students to complete a summary on chapters 8-10 using the literary circle notes to support their responses. 

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Students to complete a summary on chapters 8-10 using the literary circle notes to support their responses. 

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Chapter 12 and 13: The Feed and The Grey P109-117 (SENSITIVE THEMES - MAY BE DISTRESSING). 

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Chapter 12 and 13: The Feed and The Grey P109-117 (SENSITIVE THEMES - MAY BE DISTRESSING). 

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1. How do the fetchers treat Isobel in the room?
2. How is the Feed described? What does this suggest about race?
3. What happens to Isobel when the Feed arrives?
4. "My eyes leak hot tears. My throat rips itself apart with screams I can't scream." Explain the effect of this trauma on Isobel using the quote in your answer.
5. What has happened to the other girls who were here?
6. She says her connections are broken and she is shattered. She is spoken to by her mother, what impact does this have on Catching?

Sample summary
Catching is taken by the Fetchers and treated like property. They go through tunnels and she is dropped on the floor. The Feed arrives, a white, large man who has no respect for Catching as she is Indigenous. She is grabbed and abused by The Feed. She says "My eyes leak hot tears. My throat rips itself apart with screams I can't scream."  This trauma leaves her terrified. The pain she experiences and the hurt that she has felt is too much to bear. Crow informs her that all of the other girls who were here were treated like this and they are all now dead. Catching says her connections are broken and she is shattered. The spirit of her mother speaks to her and Catching says she 'can endure' and get through it with the help of remembering the strength of her ancestors.

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1. Why is Crow crying?
2. Crow says her colours have been 'taken'. What does she mean by this?
3. What impact has being abused had on Crow and Catching?

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Chapter 21 and 22: The End ad The Beginning From Page 180 onwards until the end of the book. 

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Chapter 21 and 22: The End ad The Beginning From Page 180 onwards until the end of the book. 

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1. Who were the Feeds?

2. Who was their first victim 20 years ago?

3. What do we learn about Isobel?

4. Why had Catching been telling Beth the story?

5. What does Beth need to talk to her father about?

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ACTIVITIES
1. What are her memories giving Catching in this chapter?
2. Explain Catching's strength in this chapter.
3. Describe the Feed when he is cornered. Does he appear tough?

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Beth Teller
Michael Teller - Father of Beth and local police detective.
Director - Tom Cavanagh
Nurse - Martin Flint
Isobel Catching
Alexander Sholt - Local wealthy man
Derek Bell - Local police boss
Rachel Ali - Michael's boss.
Allison (Allie) Hartley - another local police.
Sarah Blue - Allies Indigenous friend who went missing at 14.
Oscar Sholt - Alexander Sholt's Grandfather
Charles Sholt - Alexander Sholt's Dad