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Ethics

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Moral Principles that control someone’s behaviour

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Morals

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Standard of behaviour/beliefs of what is or isn’t acceptable for a person to do

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Equity

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Quality of being FAIR and IMPARTIAL

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Macbeth’s Prophecies

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  • Thane of Glamis
  • Thane of Cawdor
  • Become King of Scotland
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Banquo’s Prophecies

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Plot of Mice & Men

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the meaning of humanity during the times of the Great Depression

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Four Levels of Controversy

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Personal: parents/teachers
Community: taxes
Country: laws
Global/World: war, trade

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Definition of Non-fiction & examples

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Real or true

biography
documentary

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Components of Non-fiction

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  1. Author’s purpose
  2. Intended Audience
  3. Main idea or Opinion
  4. The important details
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Denotation

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Denotation: the definition of a word
yellow: the colour of a banana
ice: frozen water

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Connotation:

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Connotation: the feelings behind word
- yellow: warmth, happy, pain
- Ice: cold, sad, calm

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Sentence Fragment

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An incomplete sentence missing a subject or verb.

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How to fix a sentence fragment

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Add in something
Take out/change something

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Run-ons

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Two or more sentences incorrectly connected

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How to fix a run-on

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Semi-colon
Period
FANBOYS

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Comma splice

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Two complete sentences joined by a comma

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How to fix a comma splice

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TAKE OUT THE COMMA!!
Semi-colon
Period
FANBOYS

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Mice & Men: origin & meaning

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Robert Burns poem

preaches the dangers of believing in dreams, specifically in the American Dream, while teaching us the value of friendship and companionship.

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George’s hopes & dreams

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Own a patch of land to himself
Freedom
To be is own boss

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Lennie’s hopes & dreams

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Tend the rabbits
Freedom
Not being afraid, security, etc

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Curley’s Wife’s hopes & dreams

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Be a movie star
Married curley to spite her mom
Hopes raised by a man that said she has natural talent - hollywood

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Candy’s hopes & dreams

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Joins in on G & L dream
Assert responsibility he didn’t take when his dog was killed
Fears people will see him as useless

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Crooks hopes & dreams

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Being seen as equal to everyone else
Wants a good relationship w/white people again

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Curley’s hopes & dreams

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Being a fighter whom people admire & fear
Too tiny - so he picks on big guys w/intimidation

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Components of persuasive paragraphs
Attention Grabbers Body Paragraph Conclusion
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Attention Grabbers
Asking a question Quotation Controversial statement Stating a fact
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Body Paragraph
Min. 2 details that support topic sentence Ideas linked by transition words One details goes against
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Conclusion
Concludes your paragraph Includes an action
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Advertisement
Employs sophisticated, often subtle, methods of persuasion not only to part with your money or win your supports, but also play on your, desires, fears, and biases and to change the way you think.
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Propaganda: True or False?
Propaganda is relatively not true.
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Doublespeak
Vague, imprecise language that often means the opposite of what is being said.
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Salience/Slogan
an annoying or catchy tune
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Testimonial
using a celebrity to endorse a product
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Spin
turning/spinning negative evidence into something positive
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Weasel Words
Using sneaky words to mislead to make them think the product is better than it is
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Association
When good times are associated with the product
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Snob Appeal
The association of a product with a desirable lifestyle
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Scaling
Making a product look bigger or smaller than it is
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Bandwagon
Suggesting that you will gain popularity from the product
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Facts & Figures
Using stats or numbers
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Repetition
Repeating a picture, colour, slogan, etc so you won’t forget the product
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Reasons to reinstate DP
Death is more of a punishment than jail time Eye for an eye Makes people think twice before commiting fatal crimes
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Reasons to not reinstate DP
Jail time is more of a punishment than death Inhumane Can be rehabilitated
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Relationships in Mice & Men: George & Lennie
- Father & son like relationship - master & pet George orders Lennie obeys
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Relationships in Mice & Men: Lennie & Crooks/Curley's wife
Both characters open up to Lennie because they feel safe talking to him: they know that he wont repeat what they say to other people or just forget what they say/ won't judge them
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Relationship in Mice & Men: Curley & his wife:
- not a loving relationship - wife treated more like a possession rather than human - doesn't even have a name - she's so desperate for love she flirts with the men on the ranch
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Setting: the dream farm
- is constantly repeated and seen as a sign of hope and comfort - seemed like it was going to become realty with Candy's help - when George kills lennie he symbolically kills their dream as well
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Setting: hide in the brush
- chapter 1 and 6 begin in the same place; significant because it is used as a circular plot - symbolizes life will never change for any of the characters.
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Setting: the barn
- location for many negative events - puppy & wife
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Setting: crooks room
isolation but full of books which shows his pride/intelligence
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when was america the land of prosperity and success
1920's
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over production of good caused prices and wages to _____ and many people went into ______
drop, debt
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October 1929, the _____ ________ crashed.
stock market
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this economy collapse is known as ___ ______ __________
the great depression
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___ million people were out of work
13
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about ___ __ ____ workers were out of work.
1 in 4
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drought, crop failures, and bad farming techniques led to years of choking dust farms, known as ____ _____ _______
the dust bowl
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Some of the hardest hit farmers wre from _____,______,______,_______, and ________.
Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico.
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Soliloquy
a long speech purpose: to reveal a characters inner conflict
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Comic Relief
something lighthearted after a murder scene
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Main character of the pianist
Wladek Szpilman
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Henryk
Wladek's younger brother
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Regina
Wladek's younger sister
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Halina
Wladek's youngest sister
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Yitzchak Heller
a friend of the family who became a Jewish policeman when the Mazis occupied Warsaw
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Michal
Dorota's husband; help him hide
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Benek
the owner of the restaurant where Wladek has hired to play piano
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Majorek
Wladek's friend who was organising resistance against the Nazis
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Janina
Wladek's friend who helps him hide
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What's a black blizzard?
dark clouds miles wide made of sand & dust causing destruction.
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Whirlwinds?
thick tall swirls of dust
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What was dust pneumonia?
everyone got sick or died from the dust lungs filled with dust
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in 1935, ______ deaths resulted from Dust Pneumonia and _______ were Pneumonia and __________ were especially vulnerable.
1/3, children.
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who is Wladek?
a talented Jewish classical pianist living in Warsaw Poland.
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Ages of the Szpilman's
Wladek: 28 at beginning Regina: 26 Henryk: 24 Halina: 22
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Author of Mice and Men
John Steinback
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John Steinback
the author of mice and men
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date mice and men was published
1937
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who promised the "new deal"
Franklin B Roosevelt
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Whom of Wladek's family does the officer take from the warehouse?
Henryk & Helina
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Dorota
the girl wladek met and the radio station, who later helps him hide
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Wilhelm Hosenfeld
the german army captain to brought him food and let him hide
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What does anti-semitism mean?
prejudice against Jews.
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When was hitler elected as president?
1934
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What did Hitler do while he was in power?
turned anti-semitism into an official government policy. within a decade the policy had killed nearly 6 million european jews. all of kinds.
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What happened december 1941?
Japan bombed PH
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April 1945
Hitler commits suicide
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