Answer the guided questions on each Model text. The questions help you analyse the text in greater depth. You will reflect upon the author’s or poet’s views, values, message and narrative (story-telling) and poetic devices.
In your Reflective or Creative piece, you will draw upon the answers to the Guided Questions. You will use the author’s themes and key ideas to develop your own piece of writing.
In your Reflective piece, you will include personal examples and observations, sprinkled with your own thoughts, feelings and evaluation. By researching examples of people in similar situations, you will make connections between your own observations and other people’s behaviour, attitudes and achievements. This will help you draw conclusions and make predictions.
Table of Contents
- “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by Kurt Vonnegut 2
- “Time capsule found on the dead planet” by Margaret Atwood 3
- “There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury 4
- “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury 8
- “Two Words” by Isabel Allende 11
- “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber 15
- “Sticks” by George Saunders 17
- “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant 18
- “Eveline” by James Joyce 21
- “The Huntress” by Sofia Samatar 23
- “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson 24
- “Lambs to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl 29
- “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K LeGuin 35
- “Whirlpool” by Cate Kennedy 38
- “The Stone Boy” by Gina Berriault (1957) 45
- “The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield 51
- Questions 60