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English Revision Booklet

Assessment Point 2

Year 8 F

Complete the activities in this booklet to help you prepare for the end of term assessment.

You can complete the activities more than once – use your jotter the second time.

Remember – your exercise book and quotation hunter are your best revision resources!

Task Completed? Stretch Checked? Improved? Notes/questions attempted? Example: - Need better quotations learning to describe quotations p2. Plot gap fill Considering Caliban P4. Tragicomedy P5. Plot 1 P6. Caliban’s character P7. Unseen extract P8. Unseen extract Caliban P9. Vocabulary P10. Mind-maps P11. Flash cards

Understanding the plot: Fill in the gaps! If you get stuck, the words are at the bottom.

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A ship is caught in a huge ______and crashes on an . The ship contains Alonso (______of Naples). It also has the King Alonso’s son on it who is called ______. The King’s brother, ______, is also on board, along with and Antonio, the usurping ______of Milan. Prospero, who is a magician,lives on the island with his daughter . He used to be the duke of Milan until his brother Antonio had him kicked out. He created the ______on purpose so that the people on the boat would end up on his island.

Prospero wants to teach a lesson to all these people that just crashed on the island, especially Antonio. He wants show them that what they did was ______. He separates from his dad (King ______). Prospero makes sure that Ferdinand and Prospero’s daughter, ______, fall in love.

Alonso is sad because he thinks his son ______. makes him and Gonzalo fall ______. Sebastian wants Alonso’s crown (now that his son, Ferdinand, is supposedly dead), so he and Antonio plan to kill ______and Gonzalo. They fail in killing them both.

A butler () and jester (Trinculo) also survived the boat crash. They meet this monster like creature (Caliban) who is Prospero’s ______. The 3 get drunk and plan to _____ Prospero. But they are drunk and start arguing and they fail. Prospero’s ______(Ariel) stops them. Then Ariel prepares a big ______for King Alonso and the other noblemen. Then Ariel takes it away and tells them that there is no food because they plotted against Prospero in the past and it’s time for ______.

Ferdinand has passed the tests Prospero gave him (for permission to marry Miranda). Then Prospero finds out about Stephano, Trinculo and Caliban’s ______to kill him. He and Ariel scare them with magic. Then Prospero gets all the people on the island and removes all his ______spells. He forgives them.. They all apologize except for Antonio. Then Alonso is happy because Ferdinand is alive and married to ______. Prospero gives up his magic and goes back to Milan as the rightful Duke of Milan.

Servant Slave storm Sebastian Alonso drowned Miranda asleep magic revenge plot Miranda wrong Duke King tempest Alonso Ferdinand kill

Considering Caliban.

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Read the quote. Complete the true or false quiz. Answer the questions in full sentences.

Quote: Prospero calls Caliban his ‘slave’. Slave True or false?

a) Slave means someone who is happy to work for someone else b) Slave means someone who is not happy to work for someone else c) Someone who is a slave has to work very hard for nothing

How is Caliban like a slave?

Caliban is like a slave because ______

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Also, he Caliban is treated ______

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True or false?

a) Prospero calls Caliban a ‘whelp’ because he loves him like a pet. b) Prospero calls Caliban a ‘whelp’ because he thinks is not human. c) Prospero calls Caliban ‘hag-born’ which shows that Prospero thinks that

Caliban is evil. d) Prospero calls Caliban ‘hag-born’ which shows that Caliban’s mother was a witch. e)

What does this quotation tell you about how Prospero feels towards Caliban? ______

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How does this make you feel about Caliban? Explain why. ______

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Caliban says to Prospero:

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True or false:

a) Caliban thinks that the island belongs to him.

b) Prospero shares the island with Caliban.

c) Caliban hates Prospero for taking the island away from him.

d) Prospero thinks that Caliban’s mother, , is evil.

e) Caliban thinks that Prospero is the rightful owner of the island.

What does this quotation show you about how Caliban feels about Prospero? ______

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Read the modern version, then the original version.

Modern: Original:

1 1. I hope all the horrible diseases from swamps All the infections that the sun sucks up and marshes infect Prospero, inch by inch, From bogs, fens, flats, on Prospero fall and make him

until he’s nothing but a walking disease! By inch-meal a disease!

True or false? a) Caliban hopes that Prospero cures Caliban of diseases. b) Caliban hopes that Prospero gets infected by diseases. c) Caliban is right to want Prospero to get diseases because of the way that Prospero treats him. d) Prospero infects Caliban with diseases.

What does Caliban hope happens to Prospero? ______

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Is Caliban right to feel like this about Prospero? ______

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Complete the gaps in each statement about Caliban.

a) Caliban is Prospero’s ______. b) He lived on the island before Prospero and ______arrived. c) Prospero and Miranda taught him how to ______. d) He showed Prospero and Miranda where to find ______, ______and shelter when they arrived on the island. e) Caliban tried to ______Miranda. f) Caliban ______Prospero. g) Prospero puts ______on Caliban. h) Caliban’s mother was a ______called ______. i) Caliban plots to ______Prospero with the help of Stephano and ______.

Miranda Water Slave Food Speak Assault

Hates Witch Curses Sycorax Murder Trinculo

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Caliban’s character. Write down 5 sympathetic statements and 5 unsympathetic statements about Caliban. For each one, find a quote that supports your statement.

Overall, do you think that Caliban should be viewed positively or negatively? Answer in detail.

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Annotating unseen extracts - Prospero 1. Read the question and the unseen extract. 2. Highlight quotations that you would use to answer the question. 3. Annotate what the quotation shows you in relation to the question. Here is an extract from Act 1, Scene 2 of The Tempest. The extract is from Plot 3: The plot to kill Prospero. After Prospero explains how Miranda came to be on the island, Miranda and Prospero go to visit Caliban. In the extract, Prospero is responding to Caliban cursing at him for teaching Caliban his language..

PROSPERO Hag-seed, hence! Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou’rt best, Hag-seed – son of a witch To answer other business. Shrug’st thou, malice? dost – do If thou neglect’st, or dost unwillingly rack – torture What I command, I’ll rack thee with old cramps, old cramps – the pains Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar, that old people get That beasts shall tremble at thy din. din – noise

You need to answer this question. How is Prospero presented in this extract and in the rest of the play?

Now write down three statements that you would make in response to the question above.

Under each statement, write down two quotes from the rest of the play that you would use as evidence for each statement.

Statement 1: Statement 2: Statement 3:

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Quotations: Quotations: Quotations:

1. ______1. ______1. ______

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2. ______2. ______2. ______

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Annotating unseen extracts - Caliban

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1. Read the question and the unseen extract. 2. Highlight quotations that you would use to answer the question. 3. Annotate what the quotation shows you in relation to the question. Here is an extract from Act 2 Scene 2 of The Tempest. The extract is from Plot 3: The plot to kill Prospero. Caliban is carrying wood near his cave. A storm is approaching. In the extract, Caliban curses Prospero, saying that Prospero’s creatures control and torment him for the slightest offence.

CALIBAN All the infections that the sun sucks up flats – swamps From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him Prosper - Prospero By inch-meal a disease. His spirits hear me, By inch-meal – little by And yet I needs must curse. But they’ll nor pinch, little Fright me with urchin shows, pitch me I’th’mire, Urchin-shows – hedgehogs like demons or ghosts Nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark I’th’mire – in the mud Out of my way, unless he bid ‘em: Firebrand – ghostly light

You need to answer this question. How is Caliban presented in this extract and in the rest of the play?

Now write down three statements that you would make in response to the question above.

Under each statement, write down two quotes from the rest of the play that you would use as evidence for each statement.

Statement 1: Statement 2: Statement 3:

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Quotations: Quotations: Quotations:

1. ______1. ______1. ______

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Vocabulary. Now write out definitions and example sentences using the key words below – make sure you spell them correctly! Pick the blank ones from your glossary/planner

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Mind-maps. Write down key words, character connections, their histories, things they do in the play. Use quotations as evidence!

Prospero

Caliban

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Flash cards:

1. Quotation Revision Cut out the cards below to use as flashcards. Write one of the key quotations in the box. Draw a picture or a word on the other side of the card that will remind you of the quotation. Use these to revise your quotations on your own or with others. Use the blank spaces to add your own.

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