Unit 1
Unit 1 explores how meaning is communicated through the relationships between language, text, purpose, context and what?
Audience
Unit 2 focuses on how texts represent ideas, attitudes and what else?
Voices
What process decides which children get a place in the charter schools at the film’s climax?
A lottery
What is the name of the fictional Alabama town where the novel is set?
Maycomb
Who is the young Aboriginal protagonist of the story?
Billy (William Woodward)
Listening, speaking, reading, viewing and writing are collectively known as what?
The language modes
What is the term for the way people, places, events or ideas are portrayed in a text?
Representation
Which educator, founder of the Harlem Children’s Zone, tells the story that gives the film its title?
Geoffrey Canada
Which reclusive neighbour saves Scout and Jem from Bob Ewell?
Boo Radley
In which year was “Going Home” published?
1986
Which of the syllabus’s three text categories (imaginative, interpretive, persuasive) aims to explain how and why a text creates meaning, as a literary review or critical essay does?
Interpretive
What term describes presenting a group of people in an oversimplified, fixed way?
Stereotype (or stereotyping)
What term does the film use for the practice of passing underperforming teachers from school to school?
The “dance of the lemons”
How does Calpurnia teach Scout to write?
By having her copy out chapters from the Bible (after first drilling her on the alphabet).
At what age did Billy leave his family to start a new life in the city?
16
What term describes the expected features of a particular genre, such as a news article’s headline and lead paragraph?
Generic (or genre) conventions
The glossary says this is “more than an opinion”: a viewpoint informed by one or more contexts. What is it?
A perspective
When Guggenheim admits that he drives past public schools to take his own children to a private school, which rhetorical appeal is he mainly building?
Ethos (credibility through honesty and self-implication), with an emotional pull as well
What narrative technique is created by an adult Scout looking back on her childhood?
First-person retrospective narration
The story opens with an unnamed “man” before revealing his name. What technique is this?
A narrative hook (withholding information to create intrigue)
What term describes placing two contrasting ideas side by side for effect, as in “to err is human; to forgive, divine”?
Antithesis
What term does the glossary give to language techniques used in argument to persuade audiences, such as rhetorical questions, repetition and figurative language?
Rhetorical devices
Which Washington, D.C. schools chancellor, known for controversial mass firings of principals and teachers, is one of the reformers featured in the film?
Michelle Rhee
Which real 1931 Alabama trial of nine young Black men falsely accused of rape is commonly linked to the novel’s Tom Robinson trial?
The Scottsboro Boys trials
The title describes a journey that is physical, and also what other kind of journey for Billy?
A cultural and emotional return to his Aboriginal identity and heritage