Chapter 1:The Fun They Had
The story THE FUN THEY HAD centers on an eleven-year-old girl’s experience of her education. Throughout the text, different pedagogical approaches surface: centuries ago, for example, children learned together in schoolhouses staffed by human teachers. In contrast, Margie’s education is solitary. Her mother decides the schedule, but the lessons are given by a mechanical teacher—a robot whose screen flashes with lessons, with a slot for entering homework and tests. Margie and the robot undertake her education every weekday, alone except for each other in a room in Margie’s home.
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- What things about the book did Margie find strange? Did she like it?
- Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?
- What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have?
- Why did Margie’s mother send for the County Inspector? What did he do to solve the problem.
- Ans: Tommy found a book in their attic. This book was of Tommy’s grandfather when he was a little kid. Margie found it strange that the words printed on a book stood still instead of moving the way they did on a computer screen. She also found it odd that the words on a page always remained the same as the first time they were read. Besides, the idea that someone would write a book about schools was itself strange for Margie.
- Ans: Margie has her virtual school in her house only. Her school was positioned close to her bedroom. It was basically her study, not school. She had no classmates as we see in the present-day schools. The main reason for not having any classmate is that the class was personalized for her. Moreover, she did not have any physical teacher as she had a virtual teacher.
- Ans: Margie and Tommy have virtual teacher. It is computer fitted with latest gizmos. The computer is programmed to give lessons depending on a child’s age group and previous learning history. The content are highly interactive and children learn from the mechanical teacher. The child needs to submit test papers regularly to the computer and he gets instant feedback in the form of the test result.
The Road Not Taken is an ambiguous poem that allows the reader to think about choices in life, whether to go with the mainstream or go it alone. If life is a journey, this poem highlights those times in life when a decision has to be made. Which way to go?
The ambiguity springs from the question of free will versus determinism, whether the speaker in the poem consciously decides to take the road that is off the beaten track or only does so because he doesn’t fancy the road with the bend in it. External factors therefore make up his mind for him.
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- What things about the book did Margie find strange? Did she like it?
- Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?
- What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have?
- Why did Margie’s mother send for the County Inspector? What did he do to solve the problem.
- Describe the two roads that the poet finds. Which road does he choose?
- What was the poet’s dilemma in the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ ?
- Why did the poet keep the first road for another day ?
- “I took the one less travelled by.” What personality of the poet is revealed from this line ?
- Why did the poet doubt his coming back on the same intersection in life ?
Chapter 2:The Sound of Music
When A small and thin girl, younger than her seventeen years was nervous and excited. In the heavy crowd she was waiting for the train on the underground platform. She was frightened as it was her first day at the prestigious Royal Academy of London, but this aspiring musician faced a bigger challenge in her life that is she is profoundly deaf.
Evelyn was eight-year-old, her mother Isabel Glennie noticed that she was deaf. One day, when she called up her name while Evelyn was waiting to play the piano, but she doesn’t even move or replied. By the time she was…
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1.Which train was Evelyn waiting for? How did she feel when she sensed the train approaching?
2.How old was Evelyn when she went to the Royal Academy of Music? Why was she nervous on her way to the academy?
3.While leaving for the Royal Academy of Music, why was Evelyn excited despite her nervousness?
4.How did Evelyn’s parents come to discover her deafness?
5.“Everything suddenly looked black.” Why did Evelyn say so?
6.Who helped Evelyn to continue with music? What did he do and say?
1.When rush hour crowds jostle for position on the underground train platform, Evelyn was waiting for the train to London as she was going to the prestigious Royal Academy of Music in London. As she felt the vibrations of the train approaching she felt nervous yet excited.
2.Evelyn was younger than seventeen years old when she went to the Royal Academy of Music. Evelyn was nervous because it was her first day at the prestigious Royal Academy of Music in London and that was daunting enough for any teenager fresh from a Scottish Farm. Being profoundly deaf she was supposed to face a bigger challenge than most of the aspiring musicians.
