Text title: The little girl
Text type: Novel
Text creator: Unknown - This is because we've only read an extract from the novel.
Text purpose: To motivate people to be an individual and follow their dreams.
Date: 06/08/2021
Summary:
The story has a father that has 4 daughters and it is viewed on one of his daughters named Jo March. Whoever, in their society women, are expected to do lady stuff such as, cleaning, making tea and cooking dinner. Jo March was different, she didn't give up on her dreams. So she decided to write a story and send it to a big competition. She kept it a secret from anyone else before renouncing what she has done. When she was about to give up, a letter came up and said that she has won the competition. She was shocked. She excitedly showed everyone the delightful news. Even her mother was happy. Whoever, her father expected her to do better despite winning the competition. Eventually, at the end of the story, she would become a book writer.
Critical Literacy Questions:
Why are we reading this text?
- Our class studied this text because it had many extensive vocabularies and was written like in the olden days. Also to help us understand more complicated written texts. For instance, I know new words such as adequate, linguistic and stupendous. Adequate means acceptable in amount, linguistic means relating to language, and stupendous meansextremely impressive.