Chapter+16-18

Please answer the questions using full sentences.

1. What did the guards accuse Lina of doing? 2. Describe the mayor. 3. What does the mayor say about what he is doing? 4. Where does he threaten to take Lina? 5. How does Lina escape? 6. What are the three songs and what are they about?
 * Chapter 16**

Chapter 17 1. Doon sings some of the Song of the River. What does it tell us about how they generate their power? 2. Who did they bring with them? Was this the right choice to make? 3. How did Lina and Doon get the boat into the water? 4. Do you think Doon & Lina made the right choice to leave Ember? Why or why not?

Chapter 18 1. What did Lina and Doon see as the tunnel opened into a large room? 2. In the large room they say things that Lina thought looked like mashed potato hardened tostone. What might these have been? 3. What did they find in the second cavern? 4. Where would the river have gone? 5. What did Poppy have? 6. What is Lina's realisation?

__**Vocabulary**__
Find the meaning of the word and use in a sentence.

frantically unfurled undignified ponderously pried impudence acquainted tumult wryly dispersing tether

__**Activities**__

 * Powering Ember**

The song of the river gives us big clues about what powers Ember. Research hydroelectric power and use research and images to present your findings. Why would the Builders have chosen this as Embers power source. Do we have Hydropower in New Zealand? Use these links to help you. [] [] [] []