Reproducible Sheets for The Last Battle – Page 1
Note to the teacher: These reproducibles were designed to the used with the study guide for The Last Battle.
The answers to these activities are found in the Answer Key at the end of the study guide.
Pre-Reading Activity: 3. Create a list of rooms in your home that contain books: _________________
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Chapters 1 and 2
Literature Analysis: Effect and Cause
An effect is what happened and a cause is why it happened. Read the information presented in the
chart. Write the letter of the correct cause for each effect:
EFFECT
CAUSE
___Trees were felled.
a. Shift wanted to tell everyone (through Puzzle) what to do.
___A rage came over
b. Puzzle thought the happenings were warnings, but Shift said
they were confirmations.
King Tirian and he killed a
Calormene.
___The Dryad died.
c. “Aslan” ordered them to be cut.
___Shift dressed Puzzle to look
d. Puzzle knew that Swift was far cleverer than he.
like Aslan.
___A thunder clap and a small
earthquake occurred.
e. Jewel kept on King Tirian’s right and the King put his strong
arm around the Unicorn’s strong neck.
___Puzzle never complained.
f. King Tirian realized that the Calormenes had harnessed Talking
Horses.
___Jewel and King Tirian
g. The Dryad’s tree had been cut down.
crossed the River safely.
Chapters 3 and 4
Vocabulary:
Circle the letter of the correct synonym or definition for each vocabulary word:
1. Tirian hastily cut Master Horse’s traces (pg. 29).
a. marks
b. hair
c. straps
d. footprints
2. The Calormene replied in the pompous (pg. 38) Calormene way.
a. proud
b. magnificent c. dignified d. humble
3. The Calormene stated that The Tisroc was the most sapient (pg. 38) mouthpiece of Aslan.
a. talkative
b. stately
c. popular
d. wise
4. and 5. Use the first line of synonyms for the first word printed in bold/italics and the second line for
second word; both words are found on page 38:
The Calormene said that The Tisroc was wholly in agreement with the Ape in the judicious plan.
a. happily
b. possibly
c. completely
d. partially
a. ridiculous
b. clever
c. harsh
d. careful
6. Tirian began to feel a faint hope (pg. 52).
a. ambition
b. promise
c. goal
d. expectation
Literature Analysis #1: Literary Devices
Identify the device(s) in each of the sentences printed at the top of the next page. Write an O for
onomatopoeia, an A for alliteration, and an R for repetition. Then underline the words that you
identified to be an example(s) of this technique.
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______1. The morning that King Tirian woke in the woods wet with dew was about the worst moment
he had ever had in his life.
______2. The King was stiff and sore when he stood.
______3. Tirian heard a light pitter-patter of feet.
______4. Hours and hours passed; Tirian became very thirsty and very hungry.
______5. The beasts broke up and began going in different directions.
Literature Analysis #2: Antonyms
b. The sentences printed below contain one blank and an italicized word or two blanks. If the sentence
has one blank*, write an antonym for the italicized word in the blank. If the sentence has two blanks, write
words that are antonyms of each other. *Note: The word you write in the blank will not be found in the book.
1. Most of the Calormenes had naked scimitars (pg. 31) in their hands. _________________
2. The Beasts wanted to be free (pg. 38). ___________
3. The _______________ (pg. 42) god Tash could not possible be the same as the __________ (pg.
42) Lion by whose blood all Narnia was saved.
4. The first Mouse climbed up ________________ (pg. 45) until he was perched on the rope that bound
Tirian’s chest, but (later in the chapter) the some- thing on four legs walked rather _______________ (pg. 50).
__________________.
Tirian thought of other Kings who had ___________ (pg. 51) and _____________ (51) in Narnia.
5. Tirian had never seen the real Aslan (pg. 50)
6.
Life Applications:
1. Create a list of some of the characteristics of God:_________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
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Chapters 5 and 6
Vocabulary:
A. Match the definition to the vocabulary word; write the correct letter in the blank:
___1. perilous (pg. 61)
___2. mail (pg. 61)
___3. victuals (pg. 61)
___4. prithee (pg. 61)
___5. valor (pg. 73)
___6. rive (pg. 78)
___7. sullen (pg. 66)
___8. notable (pg. 73)
___9. miscarry (pg. 76)
___10. malapert (pg. 81)
___11. firkin (pg. 70)
___12. vile (pg. 82)
a. bravery
b. gloomy, dismal
c. dangerous
d. unbecomingly bold or saucy
e. evil
f. food supplies
g. remarkable
h. I pray thee
i. small wooden cask
j. armor
k. fail to arrive
l. tear apart
Literature Analysis: Analogies
An analogy compares one thing with another. Analogies are read in the following way:
bread : eat : : water : drink “Bread is to eat as water is to drink.”
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For each of the analogies, think about how the first two words or sets of words are related. Then think
about how a word could be related to the third word(s) in the same way. Write this word(s) in the blank.
1. donkey : Puzzle :: ape : ____________________
2. King : Edmund :: Queen : __________________
3. King : Tirian :: Prince : ____________________
4. golden key : secret room : : plain key : ________________________
5. Calormen : Calormenes : : Narnia : ___________
6. Centaur : Roonwit : : Unicorn : ______________
7. Genesis : Revelation : : The Magician’s Nephew : ________________________
8. Tash : terrible : : Aslan : ___________________
9. Experienced warrior/huntsman : Tirian : : wondrous wood-maid : ____________________
10. Mice, Rabbit, Moles : fed and washed the King : : Eustace, Jill : ___________________________
Chapters 7 and 8
Vocabulary:
Use the clues to fill in the puzzle;
a word list is printed at the bottom of
page 5:
Clues:
Down
1. little men; dwarfs
2. excellent
3. one of these is a distance of
about three miles
4. a secret word
7. villain
9. worthless
Across
2. polite
5. a scheme to deceive
6. shrewd, intelligent
8. covetously
10. creased or puckered
Literature Analysis: Decision-Making
After Jewel told them his story in Chapter 8, the group had to decide which course of action to take.
Fill in the blanks with their two choices:
1. They could go ____________________________________________________________________ or
____________________________________________________________________________________
2. they could steal _____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________.
Write the #1 on the back of page 5 of these reproducible sheets and write the words FOR and
AGAINST under the number 1. Then write #2 on the back of another page and write the words FOR and
AGAINST under the number 2. Write the reasons for and against each idea; then orally answer the
questions: Which plan did they choose? Why?
Chapters 9 and 10
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Vocabulary:
B. Match the words in each line (A-D) to the correct word; write the letter in the blank:
FOUL
___
A: diverse
B: base
C: beast
D: betrayer
FIEND
___
numerous
corrupt
brute
dissident
MANIFOLD
TRAITOR
___
myriad
nasty
demon
heretic
multiple
odious
monster
turncoat
___
many
vile
villain
saboteur
Chapters 11 and 12
Vocabulary Review:
Begin a vocabulary review puzzle for some of the words you’ve studied as you’ve read The Last Battle.
Use the numbers and words printed below (follow the directions from the mini-guide):
1.
2.
3.
Words
T
H
miscrEEant
Clues
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evildoer; villain
4.
5.
6.
7.
L
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8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13
B
A
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Literature Analysis: Grid Logic
Edmund Peter
Seven Kings and Queens stood before King Tirian
in Chapter 12. They all had crowns on
their heads and wore glittering clothes.
Imagine for a moment that the Kings
and Queens were numbered. Use the clues
to match the number of the King or Queen
with the correct name; write an X in
the correct square:
Clues:
1. Queen #1 was the eldest of the Queens.
2. Tirian knew King #2 or Queen #2 when
this person laughed.
3. King #1's name does not begin with the
letter E.
4. King #4 was the youngest of the Kings.
5. King #3 was in Narnia on the First Day.
Lucy Digory
Jill
Polly Eustace
Ideas for Discussion and Writing:
3. Fill in the blank about Dwarfs: Whatever else you may say about them, no one can say that they aren’t
_______________.
Chapters 13 and 14
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Ideas for Discussion and Writing: 2.
Prince Caspian
It felt as if someone were pulling
them (a frightful
pulling) or
dragging them
along.
(pg. 3 in Prince
Caspian)
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Edmund:
Lord Digory and Lady Polly:
Lucy:
Literature Analysis: Sequence
The events printed below occurred in Chapter 14. Write the correct number in each blank (#1-10).
___ Stars began falling all around them.
___ The Sun died.
___ As the creatures came up to Aslan, one of two things happened to each of them: 1) Their faces showed
fear and hatred, and they ceased to be Talking Beasts; these creatures swerved to Aslan’s left, 2) They loved
him (though some of them were also frightened), these creatures came in at the door on Aslan’s right.
___ The monsters grew old, lay down, and died.
___ All kinds of creatures, by thousands and by millions, raced up the hill for dear life.
___ Enormous animals were crawling and sliding down into Narnia.
___ The Dragons and Giant Lizards crunched up the trees and the grass died.
___ Aslan roared and Father Time woke.
___ The sea rose.
___ The sky became full of shooting stars.
Chapters 15 and 16
Literature Analysis: Similes and Metaphors
Emeth used a number of similes (comparisons using the word like or the word as) and a metaphor (a
comparison without the word like or as) to describe the great Lion (pg. 204). Fill in the blanks with the
comparisons:
1. The speed of Aslan was like the _____________.
2. His size was an __________________________.
3. Aslan’s hair was like pure __________________.
4. The brightness of his eyes was like ___________ that is liquid in the furnace.
5. Aslan’s beauty surpassed all that is in the world even as the____________________________
_________________________________________.
The following similes are used in Chapter 16 (pg. 227); fill in the blanks:
6. A great series of many-colored cliffs led up in front of them like a __________________________.
7. Aslan himself was coming, leaping down from cliff to cliff like a ___________________________
_________________________________________.
Word list for the crossword puzzle:
capital civil enviously leagues manikins miscreant password plant rucked sagacious scurvy