Semester 1
We studied 3 short stories at the start of the year. What were their titles?
Scarlet Ibis, The Most Dangerous Game, The Sniper
What was the Sylvia Plath poem ('Metaphors') about?
Pregnancy
What is a theme? Hint: there are two components
Topic + author/director's commentary on the topic
Does Ms Anwar have brothers, sisters, or both?
Sisters only (4 of them!)
Name 2 games we play during brain breaks.
Scattergories, Reese's game, poetry for neanderthals, wordle, connections
Name all 4 persuasive appeals
Ethos, logos, pathos, kairos
What was the first and last name of the poet who visited us and whose work we studied?
Nisa Lee
Name one of the short films we watched as practice analysis.
Hair Love or Snack Attack
Ms Anwar has lived in 3 countries other than Malaysia. Name one.
US, UK, Nigeria
What are two of the routine activities we do at the start of every class? (e.g. attendance <-- can't use)
Check-in, unit calendar, learning targets, agenda
Anaphora
What's the difference between tone and mood?
Tone: how the poet feels
Mood: how the reader is made to feel
What's the difference between diegetic and non-diegetic sound? Provide one example of each.
Diegetic: the characters can hear the sound; it's part of the world of the film (e.g. an explosion, dialogue)
Non-diegetic: the characters cannot hear the sound; it exists outside of the world of the film (e.g. narration, soundtrack)
Spell Ms Anwar's first name correctly
Nadhirah
How many students are there in your class? (You have 5 seconds)
16
What was the name of the narrator's brother in "The Scarlet Ibis"?
Doodle
What is the poetic technique where you pause within a line of poetry, usually with punctuation?
Caesura
To personalize our letters, we used 'I' and 'You'. Grammatically, what part of speech/type of word is 'I', 'you', 'me', 'we', 'she', etc?
Pronouns
How old is Ms Anwar?
28
Without looking around, name 4 of the classroom decorations in English 6. (If you look around, you automatically don't gain any points for this question)
Album of my life, about me hexagons, book trailer posters, name cards, book covers, goosechase photos, twinkly lights, pink tassels on windows
What is a hypophora?
When the speaker asks a rhetorical and immediately answers it themselves
Name 5 of the words in TPCASTT.
Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shifts, Topic, Theme
Name 3 of the film technique categories we learned.
Shots, angles, camera movement, lighting, editing, sound
Where did Ms Anwar go over winter break?
Japan
Name one of the Malaysian snack brands Ms Anwar keeps in her snack drawer.
Mamee, Tamtam, Sho Yue Mi