SANCTA MARIA COLLEGE

Year 9 Examination Term Four

2006

Read, study and show understanding of an extended written text.

INSTRUCTIONS

You should answer ONE of the questions. You are advised to spend 30 minutes on this question.

In this activity you will write about ONE extended written text you have studied in class.

Choose ONE question. Write at least 200 words.

Support your points with specific details from the text. Your essay must contain quotations.

1. A good text to study at school should appeal to both boys and girls.

Show how the text you studied this year appealed to both boys and girls

2. Describe the important changes that a character went through in the course of the text.

Explain what caused these changes.

3. Describe an important lesson that you learnt from studying this text.

Explain why this lesson has been of value to you.

4. Describe the setting of the text.

Explain how the setting was made realistic by the author.

5. Briefly describe what happens at the end of the text.

Explain why the ending is successful.

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