Term 1
The set text for this term.
What is Bridge to Terabithia?
The set text for this term.
What is Corpse Bride?
The focus for this term.
What is the news media?
What is advertising?
These words are good indicators of a simile.
The JHS motto.
Achieve through cooperation.
The names of TWO important characters in the set novel.
Who is Jesse Aarons?
Who is Leslie Burke?
The focus of study during Term 2
What are myths and legends?
TWO ways the news media is shared.
What are...
newspapers, television, radio, online, social media, billboards, etc.
The technique in "I have a million things to do today!"
What is hyperbole?
What is an exclamation?
To the nearest 10%, this many chickens are killed in Australia each year.
What is 665 million (approx)?
Terabithia can only be entered by this method.
What is a rope swing?
What is 'The Finger'?
"Dogs are better than cats"
Is this statement objective or subjective? Explain your answer.
Subjective.
Subjective statements are based on personal feelings and opinions, while objective statements are based on verifiable facts and evidence.
A word that modifies a noun by providing descriptive detail (e.g. "a red car").
What is an adjective?
The chemical symbol for lead, which is still visible in words relating to fixing and maintaining pipes.
What is Pb (i.e. Plumbing).
A major theme of the studied novel.
What is...
-friendship, fitting in, grief and loss, creativity, being your true self, gender expectations, etc.
A major difference between a myth and a legend.
Myths have no historical basis
Myths are mostly symbolic
Myths involve supernatural beings
Myths explain natural phenomena
A Greek term for 'a persuasive appeal to emotion,' as originally described by Aristotle.
What is pathos?
A technique in: "The cart clattered over the cobblestones."
What is alliteration or sound imagery?
Where your hammer, anvil, and stirrup are located.
What is your inner ear?
The technique and effect in this quotation:
"she had left him stranded there --- like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone."
What is a simile?
Leslie's death made Jesse feel like he had been abandoned.
Dead - colourful, full of energy, happy people
Living - mostly grey, dreary, depressed people
Identify a persuasive technique and the reason it is persuasive:
"Dr Sarah Mitchell, lead researcher at the Australian Institute of Health, warns that over 40% of hospitals have unsustainable staffing levels."
Expert opinion - we tend to trust experts to know more than we do.
Statistical evidence - feels objective, based on facts instead of opinions.
The technique in:
"Life is a rollercoaster."
"He's a couch potato."
"She's got a heart of gold."
What is a metaphor?
The Canary Islands are named after this animal.
What is a dog?