2. Minds-On In your groups, I want you to pretend to do the following:
You meet your best friend for coffee, and he/she is dying to know what Noughts and Crosses is about. (Hyperbole)
How would you summarize what you have read so far. ONLY summarize chapters 1-5! Tell him/her where you left off?
Theme; Protagonist; Conventions
Supporting Characters; Setting; Conflict

3. Minds-On 2
So why do you think the author named the book Noughts and Crosses?
What do you think needs to happen to decrease the poverty occurring in South Africa? What would you do if you were president of South Africa?
Before we start reading....
Theme; Protagonist; Conventions
Supporting Characters; Setting; Conflict

4. Violence can be used to solve problems.
To know what is happening in the novella Noughts and Crosses up until chapter 6.
To understand the character development up until chapter 6.
To be able to apply your understanding by role-playing a scene from the novella.
Theme; Protagonist; Conventions
Supporting Characters; Setting; Conflict

5. Who tries to kill herself? Mrs McGregor Mrs Hadley Minerva
Theme; Protagonist; Conventions
Supporting Characters; Setting; Conflict

6. Who does Lynette leave a letter for? Jude Mr McGregor Callum
Theme; Protagonist; Conventions
Supporting Characters; Setting; Conflict

7. Who pushes Sephy? Jude Mr McGregor Callum
Theme; Protagonist; Conventions
Supporting Characters; Setting; Conflict

8. Where does Sephy go with her mother? A cafe A shopping centre/mall
The beach
Theme; Protagonist; Conventions
Supporting Characters; Setting; Conflict

9. Who makes a confession about the bomb? Jude Mr McGregor Callum
Theme; Protagonist; Conventions
Supporting Characters; Setting; Conflict

10. Leader, Manager, Writer, Supporter and Two Speakers.
(p. 24, after ‘On the TV there were pictures of people on the ground, broken windows, blood.’)
Write and role play: Put the students in groups and tell them they are going to be two television news reporters at the bomb scene. Tell them to write a news presentation based on what they know and to invent more information. Tell them to make the presentation as lively as possible.
Leader, Manager, Writer, Supporter and Two Speakers.
What are the conventions of a news report?
Theme; Protagonist; Conventions
Supporting Characters; Setting; Conflict

11. Passive Voice; Active Voice; Tense
To be able to reformulate sentences so that they become passive and/or active voice sentences.
Turn to page 84.
Ex 2, Ex 3, Ex 5, Ex 6, Ex 7, Ex 8.
Passive Voice; Active Voice; Tense