Developing a personal response to a short story: Ten Minutes' Musing by Alice Dunbar Nelson
Developing a personal response to a short story: Ten Minutes' Musing by Alice Dunbar Nelson
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- In this lesson, we will work on developing a personal response to the short story 'Ten Minutes' Musing'. We will consider and evaluate different interpretations of the story and use them to formulate our own critical response.
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7 Questions
Q1.
Which subject terminology might you use when analysing this quotation: "Nearly every boy in the school was in that seething, swarming mass,"
nouns
simile
verbs
Q2.
Select the correct definition of a polysyndetic list.
A polysyndetic list uses a comma after every term in the list.
Q3.
Which subject terminology might you use when analysing this quotation: “It was a mob that screamed and howled, and kicked, and yelled, and shouted, and perspired, and squirmed…”
polysyndetic list of adjectives
polysyndetic list of nouns
Q4.
True or false: The boys are calm and skilful with the ball
true
Q5.
True or false: They boys seem out of control but purposeful.
false
Q6.
True or false: Some boys are standing on the sides, screaming and laughing.
false
Q7.
Which set of words below best describe the mob of boys?
Tired, confused, introspective, generous
5 Questions
Q1.
Who wrote the story, Ten Minutes’ Musing?
Charles Dickens
The narrator
Q2.
What does “musing” mean?
fighting
funny
Q3.
Who narrates the story?
a child
a mother
Q4.
Which of the statements below is true? (Choose one.)
Critical evaluation means how a text changes over time.
Critical evaluation means you disagree with a text.
Q5.
What words could you use to describe this rhetorical question? “Did you ever stop to see the analogy between a game of football and the interesting little game called life which we play every day?”
random
terrifying
thoughtful