The Simple Gift

The Simple Gift

Author: Steven Herrick

Open Ended

How was your weekend?

What was the highlight of your weekend?

Open Ended

Joke of the Day

You should never give Elsa a a balloon. Why?

Open Ended

Joke of the Day

Why did the tomato blush?

Next CAT: Reading Test

• 10 multiple choice questions

• 5 short answer questions

• 1 extended response

• Exact date TBA

• This week will be preparation for the test

Multiple Select

Billy Luckett leaves home, leaving his violent, alcoholic father and becomes homeless.

What does Billy take with him when he leaves home?

• schoolbag

• cigarettes

• beer

• school uniform

Simile

• comparing one thing with another using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’ 

• "they fought over drugs like a pack of wild dogs" (Dylan)

• " I felt like an eagle getting ready to capture its prey" (Salv)

Multiple Select

Billy meets a homeless drunk called Old Bill, "the saddest man in the world" (p.105).

Why does Billy call him that?

• Old Bill lost his job and home from gambling

• Old Bill's daughter Jessie died when she was ten years old after falling out a tree

• Old Bill was in an unhappy marriage

• Old Bill's wife died due to drink driving.

Multiple Choice

When Caitlin meets Billy for the first time at Mcdonalds, she feels.....

• intrigued/curious

• disgusted

• angry

• pity

Caitlin

• a teenage girl from a rich family who works at McDonalds. She is saving up for her escape

• "I can't wait for university so I can leave home"

• attends a rich, prestigious school called Bendarat Grammar School because her father sees it as a symbol of wealth and status

• Her father buys her everything but Caitlin thinks "none of this means anything"

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is false?

• It is a novel that is written through the form of poetry

• The entire narrative is written in verse

• Verse novels allow the reader to connect with the characters

• The words in a verse novel must always rhyme

What is a verse novel?

A verse novel is a novel told through the form of poetry (remember the I am Poems that we did in class?)

It allows the reader to connect with the characters and form a deeper understanding of the characters, their feelings, thoughts and emotions

Writing Task on Padlet

Open Ended

What are the major themes

in The Simple Gift?