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PAGE ONE Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, South Wales, on September 13, 1916. Dahl’s parents were Norwegian. As a child, he spent his summer vacations visiting with his grandparents in Oslo. Roald Dahl was one of five children and he had a half brother and half sister so it must’ve been a busy house to grow up in, his parents were called Sofie and Harald. Roald Dahl was named after the famous Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, who, 5 years before Dahl’s birth, led the first expedition to reach the South Pole (on 14 December 1911). When Roald was at Llandaff Cathedral School, he and four friends got into a lot of trouble for terrorising the local sweet shop owner Mrs Morgan. They put a dead mouse into a jar of gobstoppers and got caught. This ended with the boys being caned at School and Roald’s mother took him out of the School. This story is known as The Great Mouse Plot. Sweets and chocolate feature a lot in Roald Dahl’s stories (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches) Roald Dahl was fascinated by medicine and designed the Wde- Dahl-Till-Valve with neurosurgeon Kenneth Till which was used for brain surgery. He also led vaccination awareness campaigns and he discovered new ways of helping people recover after they had had a stroke. Roald Dahl thought Doctors were pretty important. Roald Dahl had many exciting jobs as well as writing stories he was also a fighter pilot, a spy and a chocolate taster. Which job would you enjoy the most? Roald Dahl invented hundreds of new words in his stories. You can find them in the Roald Dahl Dictionary, featuring almost 8,000 real and imaginary words used by the author in his many books. The dictionary reportedly took more than five years to complete. Write a letter to say PAGE thank you to that person TWO for being so great. George interviewed David Wood to find out more about his story being made into a stage production. Think of something that you are interested in and using the template create a new article. PAGE THREE Write the headline here in large letters Who was involved? Draw and label a picture to go with your report. What happened? When? Where? Describe in more detail what happened and why. A ‘quote’ is a comment from someone about what happened. Can you include a quote here? Remember to identify who said it. What do you think PAGE happens next for George? FOUR Complete the story... The day after Grandma disappeared....

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AN ANALYSIS OF J)l])ACTlC VALUES IN THE ][i'IGURES OF NOVEL THE WITCHES BY ROALJ) DAHL A PAPER Submitted to the Faculty ofAdab and Humanities in partial accomplishment ofthe requirements for Degree of Strata 1 By: Eko Priyol\o NI~: 102026024485 TilE ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF ADAB AND HUMANITIES SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY .JAKARTA 2007 APPROVAL OF ADVISOR AN ANALYSIS OF DIDACTIC VALUES IN THE FIGURES OF NOVEL THE WITCHES BY ROALD DAHL A PAPER Submitted to The Faculty ofAdab and Humamities in partial accomplishment ofthe requirements for Degree of Strata 1 By: Elm Priyono NI~: 102026024485 Approved by: ~~k Drs. Asep Saefuddill, ~.Pd NIP. 150 261 902 THE ENGLISH LETTERS DEPART~ENT FACUYLTY OF ADAB ANDHU~ANITIES SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH JAKARTA 2007 LEGALIZATION OF EXAMINATION BOARD A paper entitled "An Analysis of Didactic Values in tlte Figures of Novel tlte Witches by Roald Dahl" was examined by the examination board of Adaband Humanities Facuity, State Islamic University/SyarifHidayatulla({ Jakarta on February 19th 2007. It has been accepted as a partial fulfillment ofthe requirements for Smjana Degree. Jakarta, February 2007 Examination Board Chief Secretary ( /~/ ~%l$i ,>' Dr. lVIuham ~arkhan lVI.Pd. Drs. A. SalefuddiIi, lVI.Pd. NI .(/150299480 NIP. Jl50 261 902 Examiner I Examiner II Dl's. H. Abdul (Iamid, M.I~d. ,RIve Oktaviyani, SS, M.Hum. NIP. 150 181 922 NIl'. 150317725 ABSTRACT EKO PRIYONO, with the paper entitled Analyze the Didactic Values in the Figures of Novel The Witches by Roald Dahl, Syarif Hidayatullah, State Islamic University, Jakarta, 2007. The study concems with the didactic valucs on The FVitches novel by Roald Dahl and the messages ofthe didactic values for the novel readers.
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