Developing a personal response to a short story: Ten Minutes' Musing by Alice Dunbar Nelson

English

The Short Story

Who wrote the story, Ten Minutes’ Musing?

Critical evaluation means how a text changes over time.

Critical evaluation means providing your opinion or personal response to a text.

Critical evaluation means you disagree with a text.

Which of the statements below is true? (Choose one.)

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?”

Which subject terminology might you use when analysing this quotation: "Nearly every boy in the school was in that seething, swarming mass,"

A polysyndetic list uses a comma after every term in the list.

A polysyndetic list uses a conjunction (and, or) after every term in the list.

Select the correct definition of a polysyndetic list.

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…”

True or false: The boys are calm and skilful with the ball

True or false: They boys seem out of control but purposeful.

True or false: Some boys are standing on the sides, screaming and laughing.

Chaotic, excitable, uncontrollable, savage

Which set of words below best describe the mob of boys?

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Developing a personal response to a short story: Ten Minutes' Musing by Alice Dunbar Nelson

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.