In Mrs Tilscher’s Class Flashcards

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You could travel up the Blue Nile with your finger, tracing the route while Mrs Tilscher chanted the scenery

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By using ‘you’ and ‘your’ she involves us ad if we are in the class, following the lesson. ‘Chanted’ makes the lesson seem hypnotic

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Tana. Ethiopia. Khartoum. Aswan.

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The single word sentences form a list of all the different places, each one seeming huge like a world itself, that Mrs Tilscher has taught them about

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A skittle of milk

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This links to mothers feeding their babies and protecting their innocence

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The laugh of a bell swung by a running child

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Playtime is fun and happy

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This was better than home. Enthralling books

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The short sentences are facts that the classroom is more interesting than anywhere else

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The classroom glowed like a sweetshop

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The simile shows how magical it is, filled with all your favourite things that you can touch and see on the walls

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Brady and hindley faded

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These are symbols of evil which mrs tilscher protects them from

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She’d left a good gold star by your name

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The alliteration emphasises how you can achieve perfection in her class

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Over the easter term, the inky tadpoles changed from commas into exclamation marks. Three frogs hopped in the playground.

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This metaphor shows the children changing in stages l. First they were small, then they grew longer and then they ‘hopped’ ready to jump up into secondary school on the way to becoming adults

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A rough boy

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This is childlike language showing she hasn’t grown up yet

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That feverish july, the air tasted of electricity

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The growing children are not at ease, they are charged with energy and hormones

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A tangible alarm

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There is a physical warning of danger that the growing children feel

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You asked her how you were born and Mrs Tilscher smiled, then turned away

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Mrs Tilscher will not cross the boundary of the primary school classroom. Someone else must tell them about sex

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The sky split open into a thunderstorm

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This is a metaphor for the adolescence, showing the emotion turmoil, the danger, unprotected, beyond Mrs Tilscher’s classrom

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And the chalky pyramids rubbed into dust

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There are never ending possibilities of what was on the board

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