Anthology Texts 1
The author of Young and Dyslexic is called Benjamin __________.
Who is Zephaniah?
Aron Ralston’s hand gets trapped under this.
What is a rock?
This race includes donkeys and lots of noise.
What is the donkey race in A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat?
This animal flies and is used in H is for Hawk.
What is a hawk?
Adeline wins this type of school competition.
What is a writing competition?
The sport being watched in A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat.
What is a donkey race?
The reason the narrator is torn in The Explorer’s Daughter.
What is hunting the narwhal?
Zephaniah wrote this kind of literature as a child.
What are poems?
In “Danger of a Single Story,” the author first believed books had to be about these people.
Who are foreigners or white people?
What the goshawk does when it is pulled from the box.
What is flap/screech/fight or scream?
In "Young and Dyslexic," Zephaniah's refusal to change his identity due to racism or dyslexia represents this theme.
What is self-acceptance or resilience?
The form and flow of "H is for Hawk" mimic this emotional state.
What is grief or trauma?
In “Explorers or Boys Messing About?”, the two men crash this.
What is a helicopter?
The country Adichie is from.
What is Nigeria?
The job Adeline’s father wants her to do.
What is a doctor?
This Nigerian author warns us about the "danger of a single story."
Who is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie?
In "A Passage to Africa", George Alagiah never forgets this gesture from a dying man.
What is a smile?
This body part of the narwhal is used by Inuit hunters for harpoon tips, though it's brittle.
What is the tusk?
The reason the helicopter crash in "Explorers or boys messing about?" caused controversy.
What is the cost to the taxpayer?
In “Young and Dyslexic,” this poetic form helped Benjamin Zephaniah express himself despite his struggles with reading and writing.
What is spoken word or poetry?
The country where Jamie Zeppa moves to teach and experiences culture shock.
What is Bhutan?
Helen Macdonald sees this animal as “a reptile, a fallen angel” the first time she meets it.
What is a hawk?
The prize Adeline wins in “Chinese Cinderella” that finally makes her father proud.
What is a playwriting competition?
Zephaniah compares dyslexia to this architectural role to show it's a strength.
What is a role?
The hawk in “H is for Hawk” is described using this term, suggesting it embodies a mythical or ancient power.
What is a griffon (or a creature from a bestiary)?