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?to make the reader wonder how the slit drum helped make Kitchener famousto make the reader guess what Kitchener looked liketo make the reader wonder what Queen Victoria thought about Kitchenerto make the reader understand why Kitchener captured the slit drum

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D: to make the reader understand why Kitchener captured the slit drum

Question 2

What historical time period does the slit drum represent?[___]

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B: Great Britain’s rule over Sudan

Question 3

What is the cultural significance of the carvings on the side of the slit drum?They convey the dominance of Islam in Khartoum in the late 1800s.They represent British methods for battling Sudan in the late 1800s.They depict typical routines of daily life in Egypt in the late 1800s.They reflect African traditions in southern Sudan in the late 1800s.

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A: They convey the dominance of Islam in Khartoum in the late 1800s.

Question 4

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 o

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A: “. . . the battle only really got going at the start of the twentieth century, when the suffragette movement was born . . .”; D: “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 . . .”; E: “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 5

What cultural shift does the penny represent?Edward VII becoming less respected by societyPrime Minister William Gladstone realizing that his ideas about women were wrongfewer people concerning themselves with obeying the lawwomen becoming more concerned with their rights and less concerned with acting “ladylike”

Revolt · Accepted Answer

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

Question 6

What is the effect of this technique?[___]

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C: It links the reader personally to the suffragettes.

Question 7

Which piece of evidence best supports this conclusion?[___]

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B: “added the emblem of the British Crown”

Question 8

What technique does the author use to engage the reader?[___]

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A: He asks a question.

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