Be my Valentine

Be my Valentine

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Overview
Using this Resource
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Further Resources
This task is is about using information in a play script to make inferences.

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Read the extract Write on by David Hill. Then answer the following questions. 
 
a) Make up a list of the props (any objects handled or used by actors in a performance) that would be essential to stage this section of the play. 
Props:

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b)  What are two other props that are not referred to in the text but would help set the scene?
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c)  What are two ways the writer has made the dialogue sound natural?
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d)  In the line where Nadia says "School project, eh? I'll believe you". Why has the "I'll" been presented in bold?

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e)  What is the most likely reason Solomon told Nadia he is working on a school project about Valentine's Day?

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f)  i)  Where is the play most likely set?
ii) Give a reason to support your answer.

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g)  If you had to prepare a backdrop to create a setting for this play what would you put on it?
Task administration: 

This task can be completed with pencil and paper or online (without auto-marking).

Copyright: 
"Write on" originally published in School Journal, Pt 4, No. 1, Learning Media Limited, 2000. (Text altered).
Level:
5
Curriculum info: 
English, Making meaning, Reading
Key Competencies: 
Thinking
Keywords: 
drama, script, School Journal, props, inference, locate information, SJ-4-1-2000
Description of task: 
Students read an extract from a drama script and answer questions on props, dialogue, and stage sets. (The text used is reproduced in the the Teacher information pages.) SJ-4-1-2000. Text provided.
Curriculum Links: 
 
Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading:
This resource helps to identify students’ ability to:
  • locate and summarise information and ideas 
  • infer ideas and information that are not directly stated in the text
as described in the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading at: http://www.literacyprogressions.tki.org.nz/The-Structure-of-the-Progressions.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Making sense of text: processing system, sets 6-7
Reading for literary experience, sets 6-8
within the Reading Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

 

Y11 (03/2002)
a)  

Props  

  • Radio
  • Table
  • Chair
  • Card
  • Paper
  • Pen
  • Rubbish bin

3 marks - moderate 

2 marks - very easy 

1 mark - very easy
b)   For any 2 of:

  • School bag or school gear.
  • Bedroom props, e.g., beds, poster, and drawer, clothes on the floor, bookshelf.
  • Kitchen or dining room with appropriate props.
  • Calendar (with14th circled).
 moderate
c)   For any 2 of:

  • Use of slang, e.g., "bro", "course", "uncool".
  • Use of pauses.
  • Use of fillers "um um".

2 correct - very difficult 

1 correct - moderate
d)   Any 1 of:

  • It tells the reader that a sarcastic tone is used.
  • It suggests the opposite 'I don't believe you'.
 very easy
e)   Any 1 of:

  • He doesn't want his sister to know who is his valentine.
  • He does not want to be teased.
  • He is embarrassed about the card.
 very easy
f)

i)

ii)

Bedroom or kitchen, (accept home).

Accept an answer that supports i), e.g., bedroom, he is writing something privateor kitchen, he is using a table not a desk.

 very easy
g)  
  • Bedroom, e.g., a bed/window/ bookshelf.
  • Kitchen, e.g., kitchenware/fridge/ stove/cupboards.
  • Valentine's theme - heart designs.
 easy