Starter quiz
- Order the following parts of a narrative.
- 1⇔opening
- 2⇔build-up
- 3⇔climax
- 4⇔resolution
- What did Lila have to overcome during the build-up in Chapter 4 of 'The Firework-Maker's Daughter'?
- a challenging climb up the Volcano of Merapi ✓
- an encounter with pirates
- swimming through the green lake
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- What did Lila uncover the entrance to at the end of Chapter 4?
- the King's palace
- her father's workshop
- the Grotto ✓
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- What did Lila want to retrieve from the Grotto?
- Hamlet the white elephant
- the special ingredient for making fireworks ✓
- the magical water
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- What was Lila missing in order to protect her from the flames inside the Grotto?
- a fire extinguisher
- a firesuit
- the magical water from the goddess ✓
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- Who retrieved the magical water in an attempt to save Lila?
- Razvani
- Chulak ✓
- Lalchand
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Exit quiz
- What is the climax of a story?
- the part that introduces the protagonist
- the part where the suspense and excitement reaches its highest point ✓
- the part where the problem is completely resolved
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- What should you focus on when summarising the climax?
- the little details
- the key moments of suspense ✓
- how it ends
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- What did Lila hear and see when she entered the Grotto?
- fire
- silence ✓
- noise
- darkness ✓
- light
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- What lit the cave up?
- torches
- Razvani
- fireflies ✓
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- Why did Razvani mock Lila for coming to the Grotto?
- because she was a young girl
- because she didn't bring the three presents or the magical water ✓
- because she was bad at firework-making
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- What happened when Lila entered the flames?
- She did not survive them and she became a ghost too.
- She ran back out of them crying and went home.
- She almost couldn't cope but then she received the magical water and survived. ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- The climax of a story is the point in the narrative where the suspense and excitement reaches its highest point.
- ‘The Firework-Maker’s Daughter’ reaches climax when Lila meets Razvani and faces the biggest challenge of her quest.
- Moments of suspense lead the reader to question whether Lila will succeed or survive.
- It is important to focus on key moments of suspense when summarising the climax of a story.
Common misconception
Children may have questions or misconceptions around the 'illusion' element of the special ingredient and how Lila was still successful in completing her quest.
Do not delve too deeply into the 'illusion' element as it is not key for the writing of the climax. We can summarise that the true quest was to show no fear in facing fire in order to pursue her dreams which Lila demonstrated.
Keywords
Climax - the point in the narrative where the suspense and excitement reaches its highest point
Suspense - a state of feeling excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen
Summarise - to pull out the key events and ideas from a text
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