Answer in about 50 words to the questions given below : (4 marks)Q.5 (B) (II) When the turn of Mr. Braithwaite’s class came, he sat up anxiously. Explain with reference to the novel, ‘To Sir, With Love.’ (2)

Answer: Braithwaite was anxious because his once-unruly senior class was now speaking before the whole school, the staff and the headmaster, and their report would reveal whether his efforts to change them had succeeded.

At the Students’ Council meeting, each class reported on its work and offered criticism. Braithwaite’s class had once been the most rough and undisciplined in Greenslade School. He had worked patiently to teach them manners, self-respect and responsibility. He was not sure what they would say or how they would say it in public, and any rudeness would reflect on him. So he sat up anxiously. To his relief, they spoke with confidence and maturity, which made him proud of them.