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'Front Desk': book club

Starter quiz

  • What is a suitable definition of a memoir?
    • a genre in which oral stories are shared and passed down over time
    • a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge  ✓
    • a brief description accompanying an image
  • What person perspective are memoirs written from?
    • first person perspective  ✓
    • second person perspective
    • third person perspective
  • From the front cover, which of the following are likely to be in the genre of non-fiction?
  • True or false? Fiction texts contain imaginary or made-up events.
    • True ✓
    • False
  • Match the following terms of elements usually found in a fictional text to their definitions.
    • character
      ⇔
      a person or an animal in a story ✓
    • setting
      ⇔
      where the story takes place ✓
    • plot
      ⇔
      what happens in the story ✓
  • What is a suitable definition of immigration?
    • a consideration and interpretation of a reading experience
    • the way in which living things change and develop over millions of years
    • the act of living permanently in a foreign country  ✓

Attributions

  • Q3: Cloud Busting, Malorie Blackman, Helen van Vliet, Yearling

  • Q3: Who are Refugees and Migrants? What Makes People Leave Their Homes? And Other Big Questions, Michael Rosen, AnneMarie Young, Wayland Books

  • Q3: City of Stolen Magic, Nazneen Ahmed Pathak, Sandhya Prabhat, Puffin

  • Q3: Real-Life Mysteries, Susan Martineau, Vicky Barker, b small publishing

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