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Commas
Independent clauses
Introductory clauses
Coordinating Conjunctions (F.A.N.B.O.Y.S [ For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So ])
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Yes/No questions
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert. E. Lee
Why was the epigraph chosen for Inherit the Wind? Identification: Characters
Important Characters
(1) Howard
(2) Melinda
(3) Rachel Brown
(4) Bertrum Cates
(5) Henry Drummond
(6) Mathew Harrisson Brady
(7) Hornbeck
(8) Reverend Brown
(9) Davenport
Supplemental Characters
(1) Meeker
(2) Mrs. Brady
(3) Mr. Bannister
(4) Judge
(5) Elijah
(6) Mayor
Plot/ Setting
In small town of Hillsboro
Law: Teach only Biblical version of Creation in the classroom. Illegal to teach anything else
Cates breaks the law and teaches students about evolution, he is arrested and jailed. For his trial Matthew Harrison Brady comes on the side of the prosecution. Henry Drummond comes on side of the defendant Bertrum Cates. The story thus plays in this southern courtroom. It gets heated and media coverage is brought to it. At the end of the trial Cates is found guilty and has to pay a $100 fee. Drummond refuses to pay and says will make an appeal. Brady then dies from a busted belly. Rachel finally gets the courage to leave her father and his religious pressure and think for herself. She then leaves with the town with Drummond, and Cates. Themes/ Symbols
Inherit the wind: the title of book and appears in the story twice. This line comes from a quote from the bible.
How does this idea of inheriting the wind apply to certain characters from the book?
What in the story, does the quote "Inherit The Wind" apply to?
Symbols that are in the book and significance such as: (1) Golden dancer (2) Howard and Melinda 3) The radio at the end of the trial 4) Hornbeck's Apple Pattern/ motif
Patterns and motifs can often be used to find the theme in a book.
Look for recurring patterns and motifs within the book.
For example: Brady has the recurring image of doing things on a grand scale in the way he talks and how he is referred to in the book.
Black Boy
Themes/Symbols
1) compare the Bear to Richard Wright, how are they similar?
2) Fire
3) What are some major turning points?
a) The gangs
b) Grocery Store
c) Needs to fight for himself because no one else will
d) school
4) How does Richard evolve?
a) He overcame J.Crow South
b) Struggle to understand racism
c) He matured in the world
d) innocence was gone
e) Clash with reality
LF
a. 1-12
b. Words
i. Dictionaries Definitions
c. Virgules - (Little Rod)
Literary Terms
Connotations
Denotations
Epigraph
juxtaposition: two contrasting images, events, symbols, characters, to force a comparison.
allusion: a reference to something outside the text (extra-textual)
theme
motif
symbol
Table of Contents
Midterm
Grammar
Sentences
Independent clauses v. dependent clauses v. phrases
Commas
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert. E. Lee
Why was the epigraph chosen for Inherit the Wind?
Identification: Characters
Important Characters
(1) Howard
(2) Melinda
(3) Rachel Brown
(4) Bertrum Cates
(5) Henry Drummond
(6) Mathew Harrisson Brady
(7) Hornbeck
(8) Reverend Brown
(9) Davenport
Supplemental Characters
(1) Meeker
(2) Mrs. Brady
(3) Mr. Bannister
(4) Judge
(5) Elijah
(6) Mayor
Plot/ Setting
In small town of Hillsboro
Law: Teach only Biblical version of Creation in the classroom. Illegal to teach anything else
Cates breaks the law and teaches students about evolution, he is arrested and jailed. For his trial Matthew Harrison Brady comes on the side of the prosecution. Henry Drummond comes on side of the defendant Bertrum Cates. The story thus plays in this southern courtroom. It gets heated and media coverage is brought to it. At the end of the trial Cates is found guilty and has to pay a $100 fee. Drummond refuses to pay and says will make an appeal. Brady then dies from a busted belly. Rachel finally gets the courage to leave her father and his religious pressure and think for herself. She then leaves with the town with Drummond, and Cates.
Themes/ Symbols
Inherit the wind: the title of book and appears in the story twice. This line comes from a quote from the bible.
How does this idea of inheriting the wind apply to certain characters from the book?
What in the story, does the quote "Inherit The Wind" apply to?
Symbols that are in the book and significance such as: (1) Golden dancer (2) Howard and Melinda 3) The radio at the end of the trial 4) Hornbeck's Apple
Pattern/ motif
Patterns and motifs can often be used to find the theme in a book.
Look for recurring patterns and motifs within the book.
For example: Brady has the recurring image of doing things on a grand scale in the way he talks and how he is referred to in the book.
Black Boy
Themes/Symbols
1) compare the Bear to Richard Wright, how are they similar?
2) Fire
3) What are some major turning points?
a) The gangs
b) Grocery Store
c) Needs to fight for himself because no one else will
d) school
4) How does Richard evolve?
a) He overcame J.Crow South
b) Struggle to understand racism
c) He matured in the world
d) innocence was gone
e) Clash with reality
LF
a. 1-12
b. Words
i. Dictionaries Definitions
c. Virgules - (Little Rod)
Literary Terms
Connotations
Denotations
Epigraph
juxtaposition: two contrasting images, events, symbols, characters, to force a comparison.
allusion: a reference to something outside the text (extra-textual)
theme
motif
symbol
Bible
-Proverbs 11-Genesis chs. 1-4
-Book of Job