The Duel

Reading Strategy Check

Title: The Duel

Predicting: 

Before you start…

I think someone made a robot and its destroying everything. And it was maybe meant to help people not destroy 

At the stop point...

He gonna press the button and it's going to explode or there will be a big trap to get someone hahah

Questioning:

Before…

Is that robot meant to destroy stuff?

Was the robot meant to help people?

At the stop point

Summarise:

Identify the main events in the text, using key words. Grandpa and Baron von spanner were having two events and they both wanted to show off to each other. So they both made stuff and showed them off. They made the inventions and granpa had the best one out of all and it was bottons.

Inferring:

What do you infer about the character?

Just like grandpa sid how very dull

Baron von spanner is very grouchy and mean 

Just like grandpa sid thinks he is better than the other at creating things.

I think grandpa sid is helpful and kind and he really doenst want to hurt baron von spanner.

Vocabulary:

Words that I found difficult and their meanings.

Racket can mean its making a loud racket when it bangs on the door or racket can mean like a sports racket

Nemesis a person that you dont like or get along with like not your friend.

Duelling a lot of things to sigh or a challenge thing contract 

Counter 

Neutralise

 thwart 

microscopic

Connections:

Text to Self… when we went to the faraday center there were some pretty cool inventions 

Text to Text… The robot it quite dangerous and could be kind of helpful 

Text to World… people are inventing robot to help around with the world 

Fundamental 

Premise

Bluffing