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Challenge 1
Read up to the end of chapter
6, then think about these questions:
Each year Mr Drummond runs
activities for Multicultural week at his school. He explains that it's
to make students from different ethnic backgrounds feel special. How do
these activities make Lan feel? Why does Lan think that holding a cricket
match would be a better activity for Multicultural week than having students
do ethnic dances in their native costumes? Do you agree with him? Why or
why not?
Discuss your opinion with
the others in your team.
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Challenge 2
Read to the end of chapter
15, then think about this:
The boys on Lan's team had
a variety of reasons for feeling that they didn't 'fit in'. What were Thomas',
Izram's Akram's and David's reasons? You can probably think of times when
you felt that you didn't 'fit in'. What were the reasons then?
Your challenge is for your team
to come up with a list which contains as many reasons as you can think of for
why people sometimes feel they don't fit in.
When you've created your list, e-mail it to the Nips
XI Mailing List - nips@teacher.schools.net.au
and see what others have said.
Will your team come up with
the most reasons!
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Challenge 3
Finish reading the book
then think about this:
Clarence McGinty didn't 'fit
in' at his school either. One reason was because he was a 'scolarship boy'
in a wealthy school. How was this a problem for him? The other reason was
because Clarence had a different attitude to the game of cricket than was
being promoted by the school team. It was Spinner's attitude to the game
that finally caused him to drop out of professional cricket. Do you think
he'd be surprised at the scandals happening in world cricket at the moment?
What would Spinner think of 'sledging'?
Your challenge is : Explain
what your team thinks spinner's attitude towards cricket was, and give
your team's reasons for why you agree or disagree with him. Email your
explanation and reason to the Nips
XI Mailing List - nips@teacher.schools.net.au
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Challenge 4
Some of the characters in
this book gained valuable knowledge through the building of Lan's cricket
team. In many cases this knowledge lead them to a better understanding
of others, and changed their own attitudes and the way they behaved.
Choose any character from
the story whom your group thinks gained knowledge which changed their attitude
or behaviour. List all the pieces of knowledge you believe that character
gained over the course of the story, then say how that person's attitudes
or behaviour were changed by the knowledge they gained. OR
Name one character in the
book who learnt nothing. Give your reasons for why you think that was.
E-mail your team's answer to this
challenge to the Nips
XI Mailing List - nips@teacher.schools.net.au
for others to see.
Challenge 5
What's the difference between
a review and a summary? Even some adults have difficulties with that one!
If you click this
link, you'll come to a page containing a supposed review
of Nips XI. In fact it is really just a brief summary. A review should
closely examine a book. It should give opinions about the writing style,
the characters and the plot. A good review explains why something about
the book is good or bad.
Your final challenge is to
create a web page containing your team's review of Nips XI. Your web page
should look attractive and the review should be clear and easy to read.
It must give your team's opinions about the plot, whether you thought the
characters were realistic and why, and what you thought about the author's
writing style and messages that the story got across. You might find it
of interest to read about how the author came to write this book. If
so, click here.
Your team's web page must have your
team name with a .html extension as its name. There must be no spaces or capital
letters in the name. For example, if your team name was 'The Green Dragons',
your web page must be saved as: thegreendragons.html
E-mail your team's page as an attachment,
along with any graphics you've used, to Nips
XI Maintainer - jen@teacher.schools.net.au.
Please allow 24 hours for your page to be posted to the NIps Student Site. To
view the webpages submitted by teams, please click here Nips
XI Student Web Pages
site.
