Key into Evaluation

Key into Evaluation

Level One Set T3

Evaluation requires the skills or reorganisation and inference.  Answers must come
from the information in the story. Look for keywords. Consider the writer’s intent.

Mum’s Miracle

What is a miracle?  A miracle is when something happens that you would never
have thought could happen in a million years.  There seems to be no explanation
for it either.

We lived in the country when I was growing up.  My brother wandered off
late one afternoon and got lost in the hills behind our place.  We were desperate
to find him. The family and the neighbours went out, looking and calling his name.
 It was my mother that found him. She just walked around a tree and there he was,
looking at a huge wild boar that was coming straight at him.

She can’t remember flying at the boar and kicking it under the jaw.  
She knows it stopped in its tracks. She remembers tucking Jared under
her arm and running back to safety with him.  Those who were close behind,
saw the boar. They said it was one of the biggest they’d ever seen and they looked
at my mother with great respect after that day.  She could never say how she did
what she did or even how she thought of it. When one of the neighbours caught
the boar later in the year, she took one look at it and fainted clean away.

Some people say that a butterfly coming out of a cocoon is a miracle, but
I think that if you can explain it, or if it happens a lot, then it’s not.

a.  What was the miracle in this story?

The mother don’t remember what she did to the boar all she remembers
is her running back to safety with her son.

The miracle in this story is the mother kick the wild boar and managed
to scare it away and run to safety.

b.  Why do you think they were desperate to find Jared?

I think they were desperate to find him because there are a lot of
dangerous wild animals out there.

c.  Why was the writer’s mother looked at with great respect?

They looked at the writer’s mother with great respect because she kicked
one of the biggest boars in the head and managed to get away safely.

d.  Why did my mother ‘faint clean away’ when she saw the boar?

The mother had fainted because she had no idea that she have kick
something that big in the head.

Reaction question:

Would you have done what Jared’s mother did?  Why do you say that?

I don’t know because it would of just happened.