Romeo & Juliet
How long did Romeo and Juliet know each other when they…
got married? less than 24 hours
Who is the author of Night?
Elie Wiesel
The conch is destroyed at the same time as who's death?
Piggy’s death.
procure-
vile-
procure- to get
vile- disgusting
What are the parts of the introduction?
TAG, summary, claim
What is the difference between a Freytag’s Pyramid and a Shakespearean Pyramid?
In the Shakespearean Pyramid, the climax is in Act 5.
At the peak of the pyramid is the crisis and turning point.
What did Elie study as a teenager?
Torah, Talmud, Caballah
Why does Jack put the sow’s head on a stick?
As a gift/offering to the beast.
calamity-
reconcile-
abate-
calamity- disaster
reconcile- to make up, repair
abate- to lesson in amount or intensity
What are the parts of the body paragraph?
premise, intro to evidence, evidence, justification
What is the structure of a sonnet? Remember to include rhyme scheme and poetic meter.
14 lines, iambic pentameter, abab cdcd efef gg
Describe the relationship between Elie and Moishe the Beedle before the German occupation of Sighet.
Moishe tutored Elie in Caballah
Who is the boy who plays the pig in the dance?
It's Robert.
deplorable-
abhor-
fraught-
irrevocable-
deplorable- wretched, disgusting
abhor- hate
fraught- filled with
irrevocable- cannot be taken back
List the passive verbs.
am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been
Who wrote the play Romeo and Juliet?
William Shakespeare
List 3 things that happened when the Germans first occupied Sighet.
remain in their home for 3 days
could not attend synagogue
had to give up their valuables
wear a yellow star
live in ghettos
curfew
Who is the boy who says, “We’ll have rules! Lots of rules!” ?
It's Piggy.
valiant-
fray-
procure-
vile-
calamity-
reconcile-
valiant- brave
fray- to fight
procure- to get
vile- disgusting
calamity- disaster
reconcile- to make up, repair
When is it appropriate to use a semicolon? A colon?
; to join 2 related independent clauses without a conjunction
: to join 2 independent clauses when the second explains or summarizes the 1st, for a list (do not use ‘and’ in the list)
Who died throughout the course of the play and how did they die?
Mercutio- Tybalt stabbed him
Tybalt- Romeo killed him
Lady Montague- died of broken heart
Paris- Romeo killed him
Romeo- drank poison
Juliet- stabbed herself with Romeo’s dagger
List 3 themes and give evidence from the story to support those themes (does not need to be direct quotes).
inhumanity: the Jews were treated terribly and not given any basic human rights. They were treated like animals, starved, forced to work in terrible conditions, stripped of their names …
dehumanization: after being treated like animals, prisoners started to act like animals. They did things they never would have even dreamed of in regular conditions.
incrementalism: doing things in small steps. The Germans removed the rights of the Jewish people in small steps so they would be more accepting and not fight back.
loss of faith: with all of the cruelty, Elie, as well as other Jews, lost their faith in God.
silence: perpetuates violence, allowing the Holocaust to continue
Simon’s body is surrounded by what as it drifts out to sea?
glowing fish
* valiant- * fray-
* procure- * vile-
* calamity- * reconcile-
*abate-
* deplorable-
* abhor- * fraught-
* irrevocable-
* innumerable-
* rescind-
* valiant- brave * fray- to fight
* procure- to get * vile- disgusting
* calamity- disaster
* reconcile- to make up, repair
* abate- to lesson in amount or intensity
* deplorable- wretched, disgusting
* abhor- hate * fraught- filled with
* irrevocable- cannot be taken back
* innumerable- too many to count
*rescind- to take back
What are 2 rules for hyphens?
to form a single idea with 2 or more words (i.e. short-term, numbers)
to make a word less confusing (i.e. re-elect, re-collect)