QUARTER THREE:
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Quiz on the story the Lottery next class by Shirley Jackson. Here is an online copy:
Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes questions:
IF YOU WISH TO RE-WATCH ANY PART OF THE BROWN EYES, BLUE EYES FILM, YOU CAN DO SO HERE:
Brown Eyes questions:
What changes did you see in the children during the game?
What changes did you see in the adults who had to play the game who worked for the prison?
What did the "superior" group gain by acting prejudice?
What did they lose?
What did everyone gain, if anything, by playing?
Would you let a child of yours play this game? Why/ Why not?
PSYCHOLOGY TERMS:
Conformity : A change in behavior or beliefs based on imagined pressure from others
Compliance : To change in behavior or belief based on a request from others to do so
Obedience: To change in behavior or belief based on a demand or order from others, usually others in authority.
Groupthink : When a crowd thinks and acts as one in a stressful situation. Personal responsibility starts to vanish and risk taking increases.
Empathy: To be able to take on someone else's perspective and feel/ think as they would for a time.
Apathy: To feel nothing at all for/about someone or something.
Conditioning: To change someone's behavior through rewards and punishments.
Prejudice: To judge someone or something in advance without any facts, based mostly on the" category" you put them in, such as social class or racial group. You can be prejudice in favor of or against someone.
Deindividuation/ Deindividualization: The total loss of self that occurs in an isolated group
Dissenter: A person who questions or criticizes the will of the group or authority.
Dissenter phenomenon: When obedience and groupthink decreases after a dissenter appears in a group.
Literary Terms:
- Imagery: Language in a story that stimulates the sensory memory of the reader. The six senses that language may evoke are visual (sight), gustatory ( taste), olfactory ( smell), kinesthetic (motion), tactile (touch), and auditory (sound.
- Mood : The feelings of the reader of the story. Imagery and setting help create moods, such as tragic, nostalgic, comical, romantic, suspenseful, peaceful etc.
- Symbol: An object that is itself, like a bird, flag, or ring , but also one that represents a larger concept within a story or within society, such as love, death, honor, justice, greed, etc.
- Setting : The total environment of a story, such as the time of year, time in history, and physical location in which the story is taking place.
- Blocking : The physical movements or positioning of actors around a stage or on screen in a film
- Dialogue : a verbal exchange( talking), between two or more characters.
- Epic Theatre: A type of drama in which the audience is purposefully stopped from getting lost in the plot or bonding with the characters, so that they will instead focus on the social messages of the play. A Man For All Seasons, was from Epic Theatre
- Fourth Wall: The imaginary barrier between a live audience and the actor on the stage or in a movie. If an actor talks right to the audience or right to the camera, they have "broken" the fourth wall.
- Subtext: The hidden or implied meaning or background information that influences a story or what someone says or does, but which is not directly stated or shown by anyone. The word literally means "Under the writing/words."
- Allusion : a reference in a story or film to something famous from history, religion, mythology, popular culture etc.
- Irony: When what happens is the opposite of one has been led to logically expect-- for example, if the most kind, brave, and trusted character in the story turns out to be the true villain at the end and the least liked and trusted character becomes the hero.
Grammar practice
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