Catching Teller Crow

The book is written in

• part prose and part verse

• prose

• verse

• third person

Which is NOT a theme of this novel

• Poverty

• Grief

• Indigenous peoples and cultures

• Hope

A theme is

• the key events in the narrative

• the sequence of events where each affects the next

• a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative

• the conflict that the protagonist must overcome within a narrative.

Who said "‘…friends always tell each other the truth. Even when it hurts.’ (p.98)"

• Beth

• Crow

• Michael

• Catching

"Catching Teller Crow" challenges the stereotype that all Aboriginal people look the same way. Select the BEST evidence for this statement.

• The protagonist Beth and Catching are Aboriginal and tell their stories.

• When Catching first meets Michael Teller she challenges a common misunderstanding that all Aboriginal people look the same way saying, "‘What, you think I’m not brown enough?" (p.25).

• The story is about the stolen generation

• The authors are both Aboriginal and have a unique perspective.

Thinking about the quote, "...growing up in his father’s

town had taught [dad] that one person in power could do bad things, but it took lots of people to let those bad things continue" (p.133). This quote can be used as evidence to show that...

• Individuals should stand up to people in power and fight against discrimination and injustice

• Beth's Dad was a cop

• People in power know best and we shouldn't argue

• We can only fight discrimination and injustice when we are in power

Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina are

• Characters in the novel of Catching Teller Crow

• Complete strangers

• a brother-sister team of Aboriginal writers from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region

• The protagonist and antagonist

Crows are an important motif in the text, what is a motif?

• a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative

• the key events in the narrative

• a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative

• a recurring element, idea or concept that has a symbolic value in a text

Catching’s poetry is ______ and is a type of ______ where each line and each stanza are different lengths.

• stanza, rhymed

• unrhymed, free verse

• rhymed, paragraph

• free verse, rhyme

Who says "Life doesn't move through time, Bethie. Time moves through life"?

• Grand Pa Jim

• Aunty Viv

• Catching

• Michael