TARGET WORK

“Investing in You”
Term 2
Name: Year Group: 9 Subject: English

Assigned Date: 25th Jan 2024 Due Date: 25th February 2024 Evaluation Date: 10th March 2024

1. (9b) - I should make an interpretation of the text and use examples to explain the complete view, including
what is stated and what is implied by the writer to evaluate the effects of writers’ choices on the
reader/audience.
2. (9b, 9b+) - I must evaluate the potential effects of the writer's use of figurative language by referring to words
and phrases from the text

Mastered- All 3 Achieved Only 2 of Working towards less than 1

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A. Read the extract from the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Answer the questions that
are based on it.

The appearance of the island when I came on deck next morning was altogether changed. Although the breeze
had now utterly ceased, we had made a great deal of way during the night and were now lying becalmed about
half a mile to the south-east of the low eastern coast. Grey- coloured woods covered a large part of the surface.
This even tint was indeed broken up by streaks of yellow sand-break in the lower lands, and by many tall trees of
the pine family, out-topping the others ----- some singly, some in clumps; but the general colouring was uniform
and sad. The hills ran up clear above the vegetation in spires of naked rock. All were strangely shaped, and the
Spyglass, which was by three or hundred feet the tallest on the island, was likewise the strangest in
configuration, running up sheer from almost every side and then suddenly out off at the top like a pedestal to put
a statue on.

Perhaps it was this look of the island, grey, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could
both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach. At least, although the sun shone bright and hot,
and the shore birds were fishing and crying all around us, and you would have thought anyone would have been
glad to get to land after being so long at sea, my heart sank, as the saying is, into my boots, and from the first
look onward, I hated the very thought of Treasure Island.

There was not a breath of air moving. A peculiar stagnant smell, hungover, the anchorage --- a smell of sodden
leaves and rotting tree trunks. I observed the doctor sniffing and sniffing, like someone tasting a bad egg.

“I don't know about treasure,” he said, “but I'll bet my week there's fever here.”

1. What is the Spyglass?

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 2. The narrator says, ‘I hated the very thought of Treasure Island.’ Why might it seem surprising to some
readers that he feels this way?
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3. Why does the narrator feel this way?

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4. What vocabulary does the author use in the first two paragraphs to create a dark and miserable
impression of the island?
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5. Read this sentence from the extract. ‘I observed the doctor sniffing and sniffing, like someone
tasting a bad egg.’
What impression of the island dose this simile help create?
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6. Look at the following question and read the student’s response that follows.

a) What advice would you give to this student to help them improve their response?

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 b) Write your own improved response above in the space below.
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B. Directions: For each example below, identify the type of figurative language it represents.

Types of Figurative Language: 1. Onomatopoeia 2. Metaphor 3. Simile 4. Alliteration 5. Personification 6.

Imagery 7. Hyperbole

1. I’m as sly as a fox. ______Simile______

2. Her personality bloomed like a butterfly. ___________Simile________________
3. That car is a state. ________metaphor________
4. The slice of that cake is as big as an ant. __________Simile_________
5. That haircut is a horror story. ___________________________
6. The shadow creeped around a corner to an alley. ________Imagery________
7. The green bowling ball moved slowly at first, picking up speed as it reached the pins and knocked down all
but one. _______Imagery_______
8. Beep, Beep! The register scanned the items. _______Onomatopoeia_______
9. That dog is as big as a horse. ________Hyperbole________
10. The brown, yellow, and red leaves danced in the wind as the wind howled, swirling the leaves around and
around a deserted parking lot. _________Personification_________
11. The popcorn popped as I waited anxiously to eat its buttered goodness. _______Alliteration_______
12. The waves crashed against the shore and crawled back into the ocean only to roar and crash again.
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C. Observe the excerpt from "The Hobbit" and then explore the accompanying portrayal.
Transform the description by infusing it with figurative language, replacing straightforward
vocabulary with more imaginative expressions.
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The next day, Bilbo has almost forgotten about tea. So he’s surprised to hear a knock at his door and
find a dwarf, who introduces himself as Dwalin, standing outside his home. Bilbo is flustered, but invites
Dwalin inside for tea. A little later, he hears another knock on the door, and finds anther dwarf, Balin—
Dwalin’s brother. Again, he invites Balin in. In this manner, he lets a total of thirteen dwarves into his
house: Dwalin, Balin, Fili, Kili, Dori, Ori, Oin, Gloin, Bifur, Nori, Bofur, Bombur, who’s very fat, and
Thorin Oakenshield, who is haughty. Gandalf arrives along with the last four dwarves. All thirteen
dwarves, except for Thorin, who’s too important to join in, ask for food and sing songs about ruining
Bilbo’s home, though they actually treat it with great care.
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