This lesson contains 13 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.
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''
Inferior refers to something that is of lower quality, value, or importance compared to something else.
Slide 4 - Slide
Sephy
- A cross
- ''Superior group''
Superior refers to something that is of higher quality, value, or importance compared to something else.
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?