Your shoes. Michèle Roberts

Michèle Roberts.

Dear students

Your home work due on Friday 7 March is to answer the following questions on 'Your Shoes' by Michèle Roberts. You can use any notes you have taken during our class discussions. for each of the following questions write a substantial paragraph:

• Do you feel any sympathy for the narrator as you read the story?
• How far does the narrator reveal why her daughter might have left?
• How much do we learn from
  • what she tells us directly?
  • what we find out indirectly (things she doesn't tell us)?
• Does the narrator say any things that you think are mistaken?

If you want to revise 'Your Shoes' then the TeachIt online Study Guide is a good place to start. Teach It also provides a PDF with further discussion questions for you to consider. There's also an entry on Michèle Roberts over at Contemporary Writers.

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