Part 3: Using Media to Extend Understanding of an Informational Text

Question 1

Why does MacGregor begin the chapter on the slit drum with facts about Horatio Herbert Kitchener?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

to make the reader understand why Kitchener captured the slit drum

Question 2

Question 2

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It helps the reader visualize the coin.

Question 3

Question 3

Revolt · Accepted Answer

He provides a description.

Question 4

Question 4

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Great Britain’s rule over Sudan

Question 5

What is the cultural significance of the carvings on the side of the slit drum?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

They reflect African traditions in southern Sudan in the late 1800s.

Question 6

Which quotations reveal the historical significance of the suffragette-defaced penny? Check all that apply.“. . . the battle only really got going at the start of the twentieth century, when the suffragette movement was born . . .”“Defacing a coin of the realm is a more subtle crime – one with no evident victims . . .”“The idea is incredibly clever, because it uses the potential that coinage has . . . to be widely circulated.”“Our Edward VII bronze penny was struck in the year of the formation of the Women’s Social and Political Union (the WSPU), whose founders included Emmeline Pankhurst . . .”“The suffragettes became systematic lawbreakers in order to change the law, and defacing the penny was just one element in a campaign that went far beyond civil disobedience.”

Revolt · Accepted Answer

“. . . the battle only really got going at the start of the twentieth century, when the suffragette movement was born . . .”; “Our Edward VII bronze penny was struck in the year of the formation of the Women’s Social and Political Union (the WSPU), whose founders included Emmeline Pankhurst . . .”; “The suffragettes became systematic lawbreakers in order to change the law, and defacing the penny was just one element in a campaign that went far beyond civil disobedience.”

Question 7

What cultural shift does the penny represent?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

women becoming more concerned with their rights and less concerned with acting “ladylike”

Question 8

Question 8

Revolt · Accepted Answer

“added the emblem of the British Crown”

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