English 1 text review sheet for some of the texts we read, earlier this year
Summative Assessment Review Materials
“Cat’s Eye “ by Margaret Atwood
1.
Cat’s Eye is about a bully named Cordellia who bullies her friends but in
particular, her friend Elaine. Cordellia has two friends that just blindly follow her around
and are bystanders to her bullying, and join in with Cordellia to help her be mean to
Elaine, which makes Cordellia feel better about herself.
2.
Main Characters: Cordellia, Elaine, Grace and Carol
3.
Elaine thought that Cordellia, Grace and Carol were her friends, but they were
really fake and were only there to criticize her and make her feel bad about minor
mistakes.
“All Summer in a Day”by Ray Bradbury
1. In All Summer in a Day students who live on Venus, judge Margot who came from
Earth because she was "different." They locked her in a closet and left her while they
went outside and played in the sun. In the end they felt bad and let her out.
2. Main characters
-Margot
-The student who locked her away, in the closet
-William
3. This relates to the theme, To what extent do you really know someone because the
students didn't know Margot but judged her.
“This Boy’s Life” by Tobias Wolf
Main Characters
·
Tobias, the main character
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Priest
·
Sister James
Summary
Tobias goes to confession but gets nervous. He goes for a break before trying again.
Sister James gives him cookies and milk and tries to comfort him. She tells him that she
did bad things too as a child and that whatever Tobias did, it is not as bad as it seems to
him and confessing will feel good. Tobias goes to confess, slightly modifies Sister
James’s sins and confesses them to the priest.
How well can you really know someone?
·Sister James did not know the boy would use her sins.
·
The priest did not know Tobias was lying.
·
Tobias did not know if Sister James was telling the truth or making it up just to
make him feel better.
Basically, the plot of this story is based on the characters not knowing one another.