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Noughts and Crosses Prologue
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Noughts and Crosses Prologue
Read the prologue excerpt below before answering. Use precise details from the excerpt to support your ideas. The questions focus on the opening’s characterisation, setting and hints about the story.
Callum and Sephy spend time together on a beach. Their friendship is warm and familiar. Sephy is a Cross and Callum is a nought, in a society divided between these groups. Callum is about to enter Heathcroft High School, where Sephy already studies. The excerpt hints that their friendship may be tested by the divisions around them, but does not explain every difficulty they will face.
First impressions
Focus on Callum, Sephy and the beach setting.
1.Which description best captures the mood created by the excerpt? Choose one and support your choice with a detail from the text.
- Carefree and humorous
- Warm but shadowed by tension
- Fast-paced and frightening
- Completely mysterious
2.Find one detail that suggests Callum and Sephy are close. Explain what it reveals about their friendship.
3.Callum is about to enter Heathcroft High School. What might make this new start feel complicated for him? Give one inference and support it with a clue from the excerpt.
4.The excerpt moves between friendship and the wider divide in society. How does this contrast affect the reader’s expectations?
Clues and craft
Look closely at what the opening suggests, as well as what it leaves unsaid.
5.True or false: The excerpt gives the reader a complete explanation of every barrier Callum and Sephy may face. Explain your answer.
6.Why might the writer introduce the beach as a setting for Callum and Sephy’s relationship? Give one possible interpretation, using a detail from the excerpt.
7.Complete the sentence with a word or short phrase: The excerpt creates a sense of by suggesting that the friendship may be tested.
8.Choose the best explanation of how the excerpt encourages readers to think about prejudice.
- It explains prejudice in a detached list of facts.
- It places a personal friendship against a divided society.
- It shows that the characters have no connection to society.
- It resolves the conflict before the story begins.
Make a case
Use evidence, explanation and careful prediction.
9.Predict one challenge Callum might face at Heathcroft High School. Explain which clue in the excerpt led you to this prediction.
10.A reader says, “The excerpt is mainly about the beach.” Do you agree, or is the beach also doing another job in the opening? Make a short argument with evidence.
11.Write a two-sentence prediction about what the opening makes you want to find out next. Include one unanswered question and one reason the excerpt makes you curious.
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