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The Danger of a single story.

Key ideas in the piece.

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Prejudice/ poverty
Racism/race

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The danger of a single story.

What are the key perspectives?

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  1. Passionately against prejudice
  2. Sympathy to the marginalised
  3. Adichie believes everyone should be equal.
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The danger of a single story

Best quotes in the text.

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  1. My American roomate was shocked by me. - hyperbole and a simple sentence
  2. A single story of Africa: a single story of a catastrophe - Anaphora
  3. They stirred my imagination - metaphor
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A Passage to Africa

What are the key ideas?

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  1. Suffering
  2. Poverty (rich vs poor)
  3. Disgust
  4. Journalist vs subject
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A Passage to Africa

What are the key perspectives?

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  1. Sympathy + Empathy
  2. Journalism is emotionally challenging
  3. Disgust vs sympathy
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A Passage to Africa

What are the best quotes?

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  1. Habiba had died - simple sentance
  2. Like the craving for a drug - similie
  3. And then there was the face I will never forget - single line paragraph
  4. how could it be? - rhetorical question
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The explorers daughter

What are the key ideas?

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  1. Survival
  2. Danger
  3. Beauty
  4. Hunting
  5. Conflicted emotion
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The explorers daughter

What are the key perspectives?

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  1. Awe
  2. Anxious towards hunting
  3. Sympathy for narwhals
  4. Respect for narwhal + hunter
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The explorers daughter

What are the best quotes?

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  1. the glittering kingdom - metaphor
  2. Every hunter was on the water - simple sentence
  3. my heart leapt for both hunter and narwhal - confliction
  4. to dive, to leave, to survive. - tricolon
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Explorers or boys messing about?

What are the key ideas?

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  1. Adventure
  2. Expertise
  3. Rescue
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Explorers or boys messing about?

What are the key perspectives?

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  1. Stupidity
  2. Childish
  3. Waste of time
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Explorers or boys messing about?

What are the key quotes?

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  1. “nothing short of a miralce” - speech marks adds mocking tone
  2. Both men are eperience adventurers - simple sentence
  3. have hit the headlines - alliteration
  4. they’ll probably have thier bottoms kicked - colloquial language - childish
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127 hours : between a rock and a hard place

What are the key ideas?

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  1. Danger
  2. Survival
  3. Adventure/ climbing/ exploration
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127 hours : between a rock and a hard place

What are the key perspectives?

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  1. Fear
  2. Confidence –> panic
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127 hours : between a rock and a hard place

What are the key quotes?

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  1. I come to another drop-off - simple sentence
  2. Fear shoots my hands oer my head. - Passive sentence
  3. Then silence. - Minor sentence
  4. right now. - itallics
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Young and dyslexic? You’ve got it going on.

What are the key ideas?

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  1. Betterment
  2. stereotyping
  3. Creativity
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Young and dyslexic? You’ve got it going on.

What are the key perspectives

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  1. Part of the problem
  2. creativity is important
  3. dyslexic people = superheros
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Young and dyslexic? You’ve got it going on.

What are the key quotes?

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  1. We are the architechts, we are the designers - anaphora
  2. I just had self-belief - simplensentence
  3. no compassion, no understanding and no humanity - triplets
  4. we’ve got it going on - collective pronouns
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A game of polo with a headless goat

What are the key ideas?

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  1. Danger
  2. Chaos
  3. Sport
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A game of polo with a headless goat

What are the key perspectives?

A
  1. Fear/ anxiety
  2. Stupidity
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A game of polo with a headless goat

What are the key quotes?

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  1. fired up - hyperbole - excitement
  2. formula one without rules - metapor
  3. yacoob loved it - simple sentence
  4. voices were raised, fists were out and tempers rising.
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Beyond the sky and the Earth : Journey into Bhutan

What are the key ideas?

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  1. peacfulness
  2. beauty - Landscapes and buildings
  3. Heritage
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Beyond the sky and the Earth : Journey into Bhutan

What are the key perspectives?

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  1. Respect for the people
  2. Admiration for avanced culture
  3. Blown away Bhutan
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Beyond the sky and the Earth : Journey into Bhutan

What are the best quotes

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  1. Simple sentence - they don’t even have traffic lights
  2. mountains rise to meet the moon - metaphor and alliteration
  3. last line - admiration
  4. Kindess from people
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H is for Hawk

What are the key ideas?

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  1. Beauty (hawks)
  2. pain
  3. isolation
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H is Hawk

What are the key perspectives?

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  1. Fear
  2. Awe
  3. Chaos
  4. respect
27
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H is for Hawk

what are the key quotes?

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  1. A reptile. A fallen angel. A griffon - oxymoron + tricolon.
  2. Oh. - single word paragraph.
  3. This isn’t my hawk. - simple sentence
  4. could I? - hope/desperation
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Chineese Cinderella

What are the key ideas?

A
  1. Family
  2. education
  3. patriarchy
  4. fear
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Chineese Cinderella

What are the key perspectives?

A
  1. Respect
  2. Likes school/ education
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Chineese Cinderella

What are the key quotes?

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  1. Where is everyone? - single sentence paragraph.
  2. Is it possible? Am I dreaming? Me, the winner? - tricolon of rhetorical questions.
  3. Going to England is like going to heavan - similie
  4. Sit down! Sit down!

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