English Exam Review - Vishnu Checklist ☑ Much Ado About Nothing (play) ☑ “Lamb to the Slaughter” (short story) ☑ “The Possibility of Evil” (short story) ☑“The Moose and the Sparrow” (short story) ☑ “The Twelve Labours of Hercules (myth) ☑ Akata Witch Things to remember • Practicing writing opinion essays (Very important) • Read and take the feedback you received on the opinion essays • Read all of the texts we practiced in the unit (above) • Read the rubric Reminders • Bring a black/blue pen • No electronics Much Ado About Nothing Characters Conflicts Topics Themes • Don Pedro • Leonato External • Deception/Trust • When a conflict • Benedick • Benedick and Beatrice • Jealousy arises, you see • Claudio “battle of wits” • Love people’s true • Antonio • Borachio and Don • Status colours, and you • Don John John “bastard • Gender Roles can learn who to • Borachio brother” trust • Dogberry • Don Pedro, Claudio, • Balthasar and Hero • Don’t trust • Beatrice everything you • Hero hear because it • Ursula can be deceptive • Margaret and can cause many problems Internal • Don John Internal (contd.) • Born out of wedlock • Beatrice • Statusless • Sad inside; likes Benedick • People born out of wedlock were disregarded • Cannot express sadness • Angry at the world for his state • Resorts to “roasting: men • Benedick • Leonato • Loves Beatrice • “Cares” about daughter • Too overwhelmed to tell Beatrice • But really cared more about status • Claudio • Took someone else’s word over his • Wonders whether he should believe Don John daughter’s and disowner her • “Coward”: does not express feelings to women • Worried about his honour The Possibility of Evil Theme Conflicts • Looks can be deceiving. Ms. Strangeworth looked like a nice old Internal Conflicts lady. Instead, she was evil and • Ms. Strangeworth believes that she is constantly judging others. perfect and everyone else is flawed Topics External Conflicts • Evil • Ms. Strangeworth resorts to writing • Flaws in others rude letters to others about their flaws • Ms. Strangeworth’s self-pride and due to her belief that everyone else is ego flawed. The Moose and the Sparrow Topics • Jealousy • Underestimation • Intellect • Strength Theme(s) Conflicts • Intellect vs physicality: Moose showed his strength in his physical ability and managed to hurt Cecil Internal Conflicts multiple times. Cecil, using his intellect, managed • Cecil to presumably kill Moose by placing a wire trap. • Bullied by Moose • Never underestimate anyone based on their • Does not know how to express his feeling behaviour or looks. They may be a much stronger • Does not know how to stop harassment and/or smarter person inside. • Feeling conflicted whether he should stay in the camp or not External Conflicts • He requires money to go to college, but he • Moose continuously bullies Cecil cannot take getting bullied • Some examples include burning his arm, trying to • We do not know about Cecil’s inner drown him, and breaking his glasses personality and why he killed Moose • Cecil expresses his frustration to himself and to Mr. Anderson on the beach • Moose • Cecil cannot take the bullying, so he kills Moose • Jealous that Cecil is well educated using his intellect and wire skills • Therefore resorts to trying to make Cecil sad Lamb to the Slaughter Topics • Betrayal • Underestimation • Anger • Psychopathy Theme(s) Conflicts • Never underestimate anyone based on their behaviour or looks. They may be a much stronger Internal Conflicts and/or smarter person inside (or a bad person). • Mary (Same as the Moose and the Sparrow). • Very obedient, helps Patrick and makes him • Patrick betrays Mary though she is very obedient, happy and she feels very angry and sad, and kills him due • Feels very angry when Patrick decides to to her shock leave • Does not know how to react External Conflicts • Mary reacts to her shock by killing Patrick • Patrick • Patrick, due to an internal or external reason, is • Does not speak to Mary much leaving Mary • Leaves Mary due to some reason, internal or • Mary calls the police that someone kills Patrick, and external (unknown) the police do not realize it is her • Not happy with the relationship Akata Witch Topics • Sexism • Racism • Belonging • Knowledge • Diversity • Power Theme(s) Conflicts • Your differences are your strengths. All of the four children were different, and they used it to their Internal Conflicts strengths, • Sunny • Never give up and overcome adversity. Sunny • Sexism (soccer match, with father) overcame adversity such as facing sexism, facing • Feels left out racism because she is an akata, and, when fighting • Discovers herself as a Leopard Person the Ekwensu masquerade set by Black Hat, she lost • Adapts as a Leopard Person her fear and made the masquerade disappear. • Gets angry when she disagrees with something • Questions herself multiple times External Conflicts • Main conflict: the four children have to defeat Black Hat Otokoto, a ritual killer • Sunny’s father dislikes and regularly doubts her (sexism) • Sunny is different (Albino), and faces racism • Chichi gets angry during the social and sets a masquerade on the boys making fun of her • Sunny, during the encounter with Ekwensu, saved the children and the babies by telling the masquerade to “return”, which it did The Twelve Labours of Hercules Topics • Adversity • Physical skill • Thinking • Strength Theme(s) External Conflicts • Use your mental along with • Main conflict: Hercules kills his family, and has to do 12 labours your physical strength. to rid himself of the sin Hercules used his physical • The first 10 labours are relatively easy compared to the last two skills to compliment his smart • Hercules, in his 11th labour, has to find the golden apple, and he thinking on how to solve does with the help of Atlas problems. • In the last labour, he had to use his thinking skills and his physical • Overcoming adversity is one strength to capture Cerberus theme that continuously • After falling in love with his daughter, he kills a man who wanted appears in each and every to marry his daughter (Achelous) text. Hercules, to rid himself of • One day, while crossing a river, Nessus asks Hercules if he can his sins, had to do 12 very carry Deianeira across the river difficult labours. He did them • Hercules agrees, and Nessus tries to run away with Deianeira through perseverance and not • Hercules shoots and injures Nessus giving up. • While dying, Nessus tells Deianeira to smear blood on Hercules’ clothes • Deianeira agrees • This blood kills Hercules, and his body is replaced by an immortal version of himself List of Greek Gods Opinion Essays Introduction Paragraph Three Body • Thesis statement • One concept • Supporting points (3) • Transition words • Indents/line breaks • Introduction sentence Conclusion Paragraph • Supporting sentences • Rephrases points in the • Evidence/examples intro paragraph • Conclusion sentence Opinion essay • States a personal opinion on a topic • Can use first person pronouns (informal) • Subjective • Provide evidence • State your points Paragraphs • 8-10 sentences • Indented • Topic sentences (beginning) • Body (key points) sentences • Evidence supporting the three points • Concluding sentence (end) • USE TRANSITION WORDS
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