Crafting Texts
English Language
Personal Response
Medea
BHS
100

What ACP stands for.

What is Audience, Context, and Purpose?

100

English Language is offered with these two other English courses in Y11/12.

What is English (Mainstream) and English Literature?

100

The author of The Book Thief.

Who is Markus Zusak?

100

True or false: Medea is from Athens.

FALSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

100

The length of Term 3.

How long is 9 weeks?

200

Definition of a text type.

What is a category of genre or medium that has a distinct structure, purpose, or language feature?

200

IPA stands for this.

What is the International Phonetic Alphabet?

200
The protagonist of The Book Thief's full name.

Who is Liesel Meminger?

200

The group of people that represent the public/public sentiment.

Who are the Chorus?

200

Other than our School Values, this is the new way to get House points by demonstrating this ability over time.

What is Personal Growth?

300

The names of three of our mentor texts.

What are...:

The Hate U Give

Julia Gillard speech

12 Angry Men

Dear Australia

Caged Bird

Everyday Use

300

'aɪ lʌv ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ' is IPA for...

What is 'I love English'?

300

The six themes for The Book Thief that were taught.

What is...:

Love
Friendship
Family
Death
Resilience
Hope

300
The city that Medea is set in.​​​​

Where is Corinth?

300

Name who the Houses are named after.

Who are...:
Cathy Freeman
Sir "Weary" Dunlop
Dame Nellie Melba
Fred Hollows

400

7 different text types you can write for the CAT.

What are...:

Narrative Short Story

Memoir

Play

Script

Speech

Open letter

Personal essay

400

What makes up FANBOYS.

What is...:


For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So?

400

At least 4 different ways a person could have done the Personal Response via relating to the text.

What is...:
Directly
Observational
Oppositional
Related

400

The two kings' relationships to Medea.

Who are...

King Creon - King of Corinth whose daughter, Glauce, is promised to Jason. He is killed later by her.

King Aegeus - King of Athens who offers Medea safety in his kingdom if she aids him.

400

Name 5 staff codes.

DAN/GIA/PER/DOC/BAT/KID/HAR/YEC/JAA

^^ the people in the Y10 team!

500

List 8 things to discuss in your reflective commentary.

What are:

Title

Text type

Difficulties

Genre

Literary devices

Audience

Context

Purpose

500
The 8 word classes.

What are...:

Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, determiners, pronouns, and conjunctions.

500

Name 7 characters from The Book Thief.

Who are:

Death
Liesel
Hans
Rosa
Ilsa
Max
Rudy

500

The definition of catharsis and hamartia.

What is...:

Hamartia - a (fatal) flaw that leads to our tragic hero's downfall.

Catharsis - the process of releasing strong, repressed emotions, in an audience.

500

Name an AHL from each House.

Freeman:
Mr Morris
Mr K
Ms Wilkins

Dunlop:
Ms Hellweg
Mr H
Mr Nicholson

Hollows:
Ms Kaur
Ms Wilson
Mr Clarke

Melba:
Ms Barkley
Mr Butler
Ms Leavold