Persepolis
A) What is the native language of the main characters in Persepolis (and The Kite Runner?)
B) In what country and 2 decades did Persepolis take place?
A) Farsi, aka Persian
B) Iran ; the 1970s and 80s
In "Chapter One" and again in "Chapter Fourteen" A) who suggests to Amir "There is a way to be good again"? (Hosseini 3).
B) what is that character's relationship to Amir?
A) Rahim Khan
B) it's his dad's business partner / friend ; he's a friendly adult that support Amir's interests
Christina Tillotson
A) Which part of speech (noun, verb, adjective) are the following vocabulary terms: garrulous ; affluent ; clandestine ; obligatory ; morose ??
B) what function does that part of speech have?
A) adjective
B) it describes nouns
A) What does MLA stand for?
B) What two things go into an MLA ( parenthetical ) citation?
A) Modern Language Association
B) (Author'sLastName PageNumber).
As a young girl, when Marji saw and overheard what was happening during the Iranian Revolution,
A) how did she tend to physically respond/cope?
B) Provide an example.
A) She would mimic what she was hearing and seeing.
B) examples: she would report the news back to her dad and uncle. she would "torture" her friends. she would want to be a prophet to help the society. she would smoke like the bombs of war.
I've provided you with 7 major motifs in The Kite Runner. List 5 of them.
wounds / scars (internal and external)
redemption (atoning for a sin)
father/sonhood (nurture to manhood)
storytelling with irony
sacrifice
dreams
loyalty
A) what day does the semester end?
B) what days are final exams?
C) what day is the winter formal?
A) January 17th
B) January 13th and 14th
C) February 8th
Create three columns: nouns | verbs | adjectives. Organize the following words by their part of speech:
decadence ; avant-garde ; effigy ; to atone ; to perpetrate ; frivolous
nouns: decadence ; effigy
verbs: to atone ; to perpetrate
adjectives: avant-garde ; frivolous
Provide the names for the following punctuation marks: A) [ ] B) ... C) &
A) brackets
B) ellipses
C) ampersand
After the Shah Mohammed Reza is exiled, Marji's family friends Siamak, Mohsen, and Ahmadi discuss ways in which they were tortured in prison. List 3 ways.
water cell ; nails pulled out ; urinated on ; burnt with an iron ; whipped ; burnt with cigarettes ; poking nerves
A) Which The Kite Runner character says, "For you, a thouand times over" in "Chapter Seven"?
B) Describe the context around why he says these words.
A) Hassan
B) Amir asks him to run and find the fallen blue kite for him
For the literary analysis essay, what is the prompt we are responding to?
How does Hosseini use motifs to reveal character evolution?
Write a sentence about The Kite Runner using the following words:
imminent (adj) + to atone (verb) + affluent (adj) + coup (noun)
various answers
Rewrite the sentence. Use grammar editing marks to make 3 corrections to the sentence:
The student's agree that Chapter Nine of The Kite Runner is the saddest chapter.
With corrections:
The students agree that "Chapter Nine" of The Kite Runner is the saddest chapter.
Describe the Iranian Hostage Crisis with no less than 3 details (who? what? where? when? why?)
--> 1979
--> American embassy in Iran
--> radicalized students wanted back Mohammed Reza
--> hostages kept for over a year
--> 6 hostages escaped to Canadian embassy
--> ARGO... CIA agent Tony Mendez
A) Identify the two ethnic groups we've studied in The Kite Runner.
B) Write 2 DETAILS designating differences between the two ethnic groups.
A) Pashtuns and Hazaras
B) Hazaras are minority, Pashtuns majority
Hazaras historically persectued, espcially by Taliban
Hazaras are distant descendents of Mongolian Empire
Pashtuns are native ethnic group dating back to ancient Iran
Pashtuns has historically held more power
A) CEA is the structure used to write what kind of paragraph?
B) For what does the acronymn CEA stand?
C) You are advised to start with which part of CEA?
D) Why are you advised to start there?
A) body paragraphs
B) context | evidence | analysis
C) evidence
D) you need evidence before you can make a claim
Translate the following words into Farsi:
A) king B) hello C) father D) bread/food E) thank you F) sir
A) shah B) salaam C) baba D) naan E) tashakor F) agha
A) In MLA citations, how/why would you use [brackets]?
B) In MLA citations, how/why would you use... an ellipsis?
A) brackets are used to replace a word or phrase
B) ellipsis is used to show there has been an elimination of some text
Explain with 3 DETAILS how the "Keys to Paradise" were used as propaganda? (who? how? why? when?)
--> keys given to convince young boys to join the war effort
--> with the key, if you died for the cause, you'd go to heaven
--> targeted young, less affluent boys
--> during Iran / Iraq War
Identify which character spoke these words. Then provide context on when/why it was said.
A) “They're hunting ducks at night. ... Don't be afraid”
B) “Children are not coloring books”
C) "Blood is a powerful thing, bachem, when you adopt, you don't know whose blood you're bringing into your family""
D) "Now you have your own idiot child to do your smiling for you"
A) Ali - when the coup begins and he's trying to comfort the boys
B) Rahim Khan - after the tournament when Baba is criticizing his son
C) Genral Taheri - when he's trying to convince the could not to adpot
D) Sanuabar - talking to Ali after she gave birth to Hassan
Find examples of metaphor used in The Kite Runner. Properly MLA cite it.
Various
Be the first team to solve today's WORDLE. (I need to see the evidence of your process). Go!
Various answers.
Note: nothing is wrong with the quotation itself. Rewrite the MLA citation making 5 corrections to the citation:
Amir admitted "I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975." (Khaled, 2)
Amir admits, "I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975" (Hosseini 2).