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Anna SewellA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Use these questions or activities to help gauge students’ familiarity with and spark their interest in the context of the work, giving them an entry point into the text itself.
Short Answer
1. What purposes have horses served in human societies? What kinds of tasks have they performed?
Teaching Suggestion: As students brainstorm different functions horses have performed, prompt them to reflect on whether horses are still heavily involved in carrying out those tasks. If not, what have horses been replaced with? Encourage students to research when these transitions occurred. Students might also like to research a particular role for horses (for example, pit ponies in the coal industry) or a case study of a specific famous horse (Seabiscuit, Bucephalus, Secretariat, etc.).
2. Black Beauty is set in Victorian England. What types of changes were occurring in English society at this time, and what challenges did people face?
Teaching Suggestion: Consider asking students to identify the different locations mentioned in the novel on a map (Bath, London, etc.
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