Starter quiz
- When did WW1 begin?
- 1900
- 1914 ✓
- 2014
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- 'Doomed' means...
- certain to fail ✓
- certain to succeed
- certain to try
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- Describing someone has having "fine" skin suggests they are...
- concerned about their image
- young ✓
- elderly
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- Having an optimistic outlook suggests...
- positivity ✓
- negativity
- nonchalance
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- Placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast is the literary technique of...
- 'juxtaposition' ✓
- A "swarm" of people might imply...
- common purpose ✓
- a large number ✓
- a small number
- opposing opinions
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Exit quiz
- Dharker's 'A Century Later' mirrors the opening line from which Wilfred Owen poem?
- 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' ✓
- 'Exposure'
- 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
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- A "murmur" means...
- an almost inaudible utterance ✓
- a loud and unmissable utterance
- a pessimistic and negative utterance
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- Resistance means...
- blindly complying with something
- refusing to comply with something ✓
- understanding something
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- A difference in level or treatment, especially one that is seen as unfair is known as a...
- 'disparity' ✓
- The image of people being unable to destroy books suggests...
- education is more powerful than violence ✓
- violence is more powerful than education
- education isn't important
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- In 'A Century Later', Dharker likely doesn't refer to Malala Yousafzai by name in order to...
- encourage the reader to research her
- imply that every girl needs to fight for education ✓
- imply that everyone should fight for girls' right to education
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Key learning points
- ‘A century later’ explores the fight that many women have faced across the world for education and equality.
- Dharker references Wilfred Owen's 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' which lamented the loss of the youth during the war.
- Dharker references activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in Pakistan.
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.
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
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