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Year 10
AQA

Understanding ideas of youth and education in Dharker's 'A Century Later'

I can explain how Dharker presents youth and education in 'A Century Later' particularly within the context of gender disparity within education across the world.

New
New
Year 10
AQA

Understanding ideas of youth and education in Dharker's 'A Century Later'

I can explain how Dharker presents youth and education in 'A Century Later' particularly within the context of gender disparity within education across the world.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. ‘A century later’ explores the fight that many women have faced across the world for education and equality.
  2. Dharker references Wilfred Owen's 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' which lamented the loss of the youth during the war.
  3. Dharker references activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in Pakistan.

Keywords

  • Resistance - the refusal to accept or comply with something

  • Optimistic - hopeful and confident about the future

  • Disparity - a difference in level or treatment, especially one that is seen as unfair

  • Murmur - a softly spoken or almost inaudible utterance

  • Swarm - a large group of people all moving together

Common misconception

The right to education is the same all around the world.

There are many places in the world where girls specifically have to fight for the right to education.

You could explore Malala Yousafzai in more detail if she is someone the students are unfamiliar with.
Teacher tip

Equipment

You will need access to a copy of the AQA World and Lives anthology for this lesson.

Content guidance

  • Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour
  • Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Supervision

Adult supervision recommended

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

Lesson video

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6 Questions

Q1.
When did WW1 begin?
1900
Correct answer: 1914
2014
Q2.
'Doomed' means...
Correct answer: certain to fail
certain to succeed
certain to try
Q3.
Describing someone has having "fine" skin suggests they are...
concerned about their image
Correct answer: young
elderly
Q4.
Having an optimistic outlook suggests...
Correct answer: positivity
negativity
nonchalance
Q5.
Placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast is the literary technique of...
Correct Answer: juxtaposition
Q6.
A "swarm" of people might imply...
Correct answer: common purpose
Correct answer: a large number
a small number
opposing opinions

6 Questions

Q1.
Dharker's 'A Century Later' mirrors the opening line from which Wilfred Owen poem?
Correct answer: 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'
'Exposure'
'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Q2.
A "murmur" means...
Correct answer: an almost inaudible utterance
a loud and unmissable utterance
a pessimistic and negative utterance
Q3.
Resistance means...
blindly complying with something
Correct answer: refusing to comply with something
understanding something
Q4.
A difference in level or treatment, especially one that is seen as unfair is known as a...
Correct Answer: disparity
Q5.
The image of people being unable to destroy books suggests...
Correct answer: education is more powerful than violence
violence is more powerful than education
education isn't important
Q6.
In 'A Century Later', Dharker likely doesn't refer to Malala Yousafzai by name in order to...
encourage the reader to research her
Correct answer: imply that every girl needs to fight for education
imply that everyone should fight for girls' right to education