20151126 Week11English Children’s Literature
l The story talks about
→The story is about…
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l If I were in your shoes…
:used when you want to tell someone what you would do in their situation:
l To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality.
Story
Ø The story is about growing.
Ø Main character: Scout
Ø 4 major lessons:
1. Put yourself in their shoes.
2. Don’t kill mocking birds.
3. Keep fighting even if you know you’ll lose.
4. The world is very unfair.
l Nigger In the English language, the word "nigger" is an ethnic slur, usually directed at black people. The word originated as a neutral term referring to people with black skin, as a variation of the Spanish and Portuguese noun negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective niger ("black"). It was often used disparagingly, and by the mid-twentieth century, particularly in the United States, its usage became unambiguously pejorative, a racist insult. The variant "Nigga" is sometimes used among African Americans in a non-derogatory sense.
l Darlie (literally: "black person"), formerly known as Darkie, is a toothpaste brand of Hawley & Hazel Chemical Company (Official Slogan: 'Powering Your Smile.').
Ø Darky, or darkie, is a term used primarily in the United Kingdom and United States to refer to black people, and is now generally considered disrespectful. The packaging featured an image of a wide-eyed, smiling dark-skinned black male wearing a top hat, monocle and bow-tie, an image resembling minstrelsy.
l Has the jury reached your verdict?
by Robert Burns
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l Metaphoris a figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two. While a simile compares two items, a metaphor directly equates them, and does not use "like" or "as" as does a simile.
Simileis a figure of speech that directly compares two things through the explicit use of connecting words (such as like, as, so, than, or various verbs such as resemble).
l Vocabulary
respect (v.) to admire someone because they have high standards and good qualities such as fairness and honesty
respectively (adv.) in the same order as the things you have just mentioned
conscious (a.) noticing or realizing something
consciousness (n.) the condition of being awake and able to understand what is happening around you
conscience (n.) the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is morally right or wrong
outcast (n.) someone who is not accepted by the people they live among, or who has been forced out of their home
knothole (n.) a hole in a piece of wood where a knot has been
stab (n.) an act of stabbing or trying to stab someone with a knife
- Ø bene-: something good
beneficial (a.) having a good effect
→be beneficial to
benefit (n.) an advantage, improvement, or help that you get from something
benevolent (a.) kind and generous
- Ø mal-: something bad
malevolent (a.) a malevolent person wants to harm other people
malignant (a.) a malignant disease is one such as cancer, whichcan develop in an uncontrolled way and is likely to cause someone's death (tumor)
malicious (a.) very unkind and cruel, and deliberately behaving in a way that is likely to upset or hurt someone(gossip)
- Ø ver-/ vir-: true
virtual reality (n.) an environment produced by a computer that looks and seems real to the person experiencing it
verify (v.) to discover whether something is correct or true
→verification (n.)
- Ø dic-: to say; to tell; words
dictator (n.) someone who tells other people what they should do, in a way that seems unreasonable
dictation (n.) when you say words for someone to write down
predict (v.) to say that something will happen, before it happens
- Ø fore-: placed at the front
forecast (n.) a description of what is likely to happen in the future, based on the information that you have now
foretell (v.) a description of what is likely to happen in the future, based on the information that you have now
foresee (v.) to think or know that something is going to happen in the future
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