Assessment Tasks p174 – 182

Information retrieval (AF2):
Describe Sam’s death. You should try to include his feelings as well as the factual information given.
You will gain marks for details which are taken from the text.


Inference (AF3):
Reread Spring (p174 – 175)
What can you infer about the feelings of:
• Mum and Dad
• Mrs Willis
• Ella
• Sam
Why do you think Sam’s last contact is with his father rather than his mother?
Reread List No.11 Things I Want To Happen After I Am Dead (p182)
Write an imaginative account of his funeral based on how you think the characters in the book would behave.
Use of structure (AF4):
Compare the two ways in which his death is presented. You will gain marks if you use details taken from the text.
Why do you think there is a final list? What is the effect of this list on the reader?
Use of language (AF5):
There were no angels (p 178) How does Sam describe his own death?
Think about:
• Light and dark • Inside and outside the room • Dreaming and waking
• Colours • Movement and stillness • The use of repetition

Awareness of author's viewpoint and purpose (AF6):
In Question and Answer with Sally at the end of the book, the writer explains that she is a Quaker and that
‘Quakers don’t tell you what to believe – like Sam they think you have to work out your own answersto the big questions’. How do you think she would answer these Questions Nobody Answers:
• Does it hurt to die?
• Why do people have to die anyway?
• Where do you go after you die?
• Why does God make kids ill?
How would you answer these questions?