Summarising 'Emmeline Pankhurst, Little People Big Dreams' | English

Starter quiz

What cause was Emmeline Pankhurst an activist for?
- women's suffrage ✓
- women's education
- men's rights
What type of text tells us the story of Emmeline Pankhurst's life?
- a fiction narrative
- a biography text ✓
- a poem
When retelling the story of a significant figure's life, I should ...
- memorise the entire story and include every detail.
- summarise the most important parts of their life to retell. ✓
- only retell the beginning of their life.
How can you build a greater understanding of a text?
- guess what the story is about
- answer questions by retrieving important information ✓
- read it once
Match the vocabulary to the correct definition.
- significant figure
  
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  a person who has done something important in our world ✓
- activist
  
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  a person who takes action to change something in our world ✓
- suffrage
  
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  the right to vote in political elections ✓
- suffragette
  
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  an activist for women's right to vote ✓
When Emmeline Pankhurst was alive, life was ...
- exactly the same as it is now.
- lots of fun.
- very different and unfair for women. ✓