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Kamila ShamsieA 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 is a tragedy in literature? What are its main characteristics?
Teaching Suggestion: Home Fire is an adaptation of the tragic play Antigone, modeling much of the format and structure of its five acts. Consider helping students understand the genre of tragedy so they will be better able to identify its conventions in the novel by accessing or sharing these or similar resources:
2. Let’s think about context. In the United States, life changed in many ways after 9/11. How do you think this might have been similar or different in the United Kingdom?
Teaching Suggestion: Students may not realize that 9/11’s effects echoed across countries around the world, and so this question provides an opportunity to introduce the tragedy’s global effects.
By Kamila Shamsie