Literacy: reading a story from history

Today we read the story Not Always A Perfect Place by Judy Waite. You can find it on pages 4 to 7 of the fiction anthology. We read it silently to begin with, and then we all read through it together, discussing the hard words and talking about the characters. At home please finish the first 9 comprehension questions. I have done the first one as an example. There is no need to copy the questions. Just write complete sentences to answer.

Question 8 is quite hard. It means: When Beatrice asks Soames if children died in the factory, what does that tell you about the way she is thinking? Has she changed her mind about the boy?