Review Sheet: Final Exam Part II
Monday June 10
Review Days: Thursday June 6, Friday June 7 and after school June 6
Complete the following questions using any materials in your binder including review cards, Iron Editing and Shakespeare
Notebooks.
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Utopia Unit and Themes (of all stories throughout the year)
Which characters demonstrate nonconformity?-from The Giver-Warriors Don’t Cry
Which characters/individuals demonstrate conformity and intolerance (from Stargirl-Warriors Don’t Cry)
What is the definition of utopia including word origins?
What did Thomas More write?__________________________
What did More believe needed to be abolished in order to have a utopia?
Summarize the perspective of a utopia in the following stories:
The Giver
Gattaca
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
“Number Twelve Looks Just Like You”
What do Jonas, Vincent, Stargirl, Viola and Olivia have in common?
Animal Farm and Propaganda
What are examples of the various propaganda techniques in the Holocaust (Anne Frank film) and/or the Jim Crow Era
(Warriors Don’t Cry)?
Slogan
Fear
Scapegoat
Bandwagon
Euphemism
Transfer
What are examples of the propaganda techniques in the Slinky Commercial, Dodge Challenger commercial, seatbelt campaign?
(see commercial chart)
Slinky
Dodge Challenger
Seatbelt campaign
Identify the real life people/events that are symbolized in Animal Farm:
Czar Nicholas II
Leo Trotsky
Joseph Stalin
Propaganda
Vladimir Lenin
The 5 Year Plan to industrialize Russia
The overthrow of the Czar’s residence
Stalin first meeting with Hitler and then Churchill during World War II
Stalin’s cover up of the poverty and gulags-while Moscow thrived
The uneducated peasants who continued to support Stalin
The working class
Twelfth Night/William Shakespeare
Shakespeare:
Place of birth
Birthdate/Death
Wife/Family
Other than playwriter, other jobs:
Details about the Globe Theatre including location
Role of women during Elizabethan Period (and how Twelfth Night is different)
Examples of the following comedic devices in Twelfth Night:
Verbal irony
Dramatic irony
Mistaken identity
What the film emphasizes about the characters?
Stargirl
Similarities between Stargirl and Archie and Melba, Miep, Anne
Similarities between students at Mica High School and students at Central High School
Definition of nonconformity and conformity
Unnamed Unit
Similarities between Guido and Otto Frank
Similarities between the helpers and various individuals in Warriors Don’t Cry and Life is Beautiful
Similarities/differences between the relationship between Guido and his son, Otto Frank and his girls and Melba’s
grandmother and Melba
Examples of the first two levels of the hate pyramid as shown in the Anne Frank film, Holocaust notes, Life is Beautiful and
Warriors Don’t Cry
Role of the media during the Holocaust and during Warriors Don’t Cry
Similarities between Jim Crow and Nuremberg Laws
Significance of Anne Frank’s diary
Comparison between Anne before/during hiding in the annex and Melba battling integration at Central High School
Definition of Righteous Gentiles (including examples)
Definition of a warrior (and examples from Anne Frank and Warriors Don’t Cry)
Similarities between Melba, Anne, Dora (wife in Life is Beautiful), teachers who stood up for the Little Rock Nine, ‘the helpers’
Writing (see Iron Editing book)
List FANBOYS and the comma rule
List the ‘fancy words’ and the rule for the semi-colon
Identify the correct way to cite text using MLA format
Correct spelling of their/there/they’re, too/too/two, affect/effect
Warriors Don’t Cry
1. Describe 1-2 ways that the “segregationalists” at Central High carefully plan, in a systematic way, how they will target
Melba and the others. What do they plan to do? What do they do?
2. What are Melba’s ideas about suicide in this chapter? (Connect to Anne Frank’s changing views)
3. What advice does Grandma India then give Melba about how to make choice about how she responds to her
harassers?
4. Briefly describe TWO ways Link helps warn Melba about possible attacks and acts of hatred and discrimination.
5. Why does Link call Melba all upset? What does he complain about?
6. Why does Link want Melba to tell the press (the news) that the situation at Central High is improving? (FHQ) What
does he hope will happen if Melba reports this? How does Melba respond?
7. Who is Mrs. Healey? How does Link feel about her? How does she feel about Link?
8. How does Link’s relationship with Mrs. Healey affect his attitude toward African Americans?
9. How does racism shape Link’s friendship with Melba?
10. Who is able to graduate in this final chapter? What has to happen to make sure he can graduate without being
targeted?
11. Why is Ernest Green’s graduation from central High School important to African Americans in Little Rock? Why do
the segregationalists care so much?
12. Who is invited to this graduation by the families?
Be sure to familiarize yourself with Minnie Jean’s actions (particularly in the cafeteria)
The pressures the Little Rock Nine faced from all groups including the NAACP
The reaction of other black students to the Little Rock Nine
Small but important ways and people who stood up to the hatred at Central High School