Introduction Noughts and Crosses

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This lesson contains 12 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

Lesson duration is: 45 min

Items in this lesson

Slide 1 - Slide

Look at the cover, what do you think the book is about?

Slide 2 - Mind map

In short

The story is about two groups in life: noughts and crosses. They do not get along well.

Callum belongs to noughts and Sephy to the crosses. They are friends and become lovers, but are actually not allowed to hang out together.

Themes: friendship, discrimination in various parts of life

Slide 3 - Slide

Callum

- A nought

- ''Inferior group''

Slide 4 - Slide

Sephy

- A cross

- ''Superior group''

Slide 5 - Slide

When you look at the groups Noughts and
Crosses. What strikes you now you know
that Callum is inferior and
Sehpy is superior?

Slide 6 - Open question

The author

Name: Malorie Blackman

Born: London, 1962

Genre: young adult, fiction

Won various prices

Slide 7 - Slide

Noughts and crosses are segregated (gescheiden) and not allowed to do things together. This system was used in South Africa in previous decades as well. What was this system called?

Slide 8 - Open question

What groups are still inferior today?

Slide 9 - Mind map

What groups are still superior today?

Slide 10 - Mind map

What is your opinion about the book so far?

Very interesting!

Good book

Hmm.. OK

Bad

Slide 11 - Quiz

LET'S START READING

Slide 12 - Slide