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English Revision Booklet
Assessment Point 2
Year 8
The Tempest 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
attempted? Checked? Improved? Notes/questions
Example:
learning
quotations
- Need better quotations
to describe Caliban
p2. Plot gap fill
Considering
Caliban
P4. Tragicomedy
P5. Plot 1
P6. Caliban’s
character
P7. Unseen
extract Prospero
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 island. 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 Gonzalo and Antonio, the usurping ________ of Milan. Prospero, who is a
magician,lives on the island with his daughter Miranda. 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 Ferdinand from his dad (King ___________). Prospero
makes sure that Ferdinand and Prospero’s daughter, _________, fall in love.
Alonso is sad because he thinks his son _____________. Ariel 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 (Stephano) 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’.
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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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:
Slave
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)
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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, Sycorax, 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.
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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Modern:
1. I hope all the horrible diseases from swamps
and marshes infect Prospero, inch by inch,
until he’s nothing but a walking disease!
Original:
1All the infections that the sun sucks up
From bogs, fens, flats, on Prospero fall and make him
By inch-meal a disease!
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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,
To answer other business. Shrug’st thou, malice?
If thou neglect’st, or dost unwillingly
What I command, I’ll rack thee with old cramps,
Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar,
That beasts shall tremble at thy din.
Hag-seed – son of a witch
dost – do
rack – torture
old cramps – the pains
that old people get
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.
Annotating unseen extracts - Caliban
Statement 1:
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Quotations:
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2. ______________________
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Statement 2:
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Quotations:
1. ______________________
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2. ______________________
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Statement 3:
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Quotations:
1. ______________________
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2. ______________________
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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
From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him
By inch-meal a disease. His spirits hear me,
And yet I needs must curse. But they’ll nor pinch,
Fright me with urchin shows, pitch me I’th’mire,
Nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark
Out of my way, unless he bid ‘em:
flats – swamps
Prosper - Prospero
By inch-meal – little by
little
Urchin-shows – hedgehogs
like demons or ghosts
I’th’mire – in the mud
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:
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Quotations:
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Statement 2:
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Quotations:
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2. ______________________
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Statement 3:
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Quotations:
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2. ______________________
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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
Usurp: Definition - _______________________________________________________________
Example sentence - ______________________________________________________________
Colonialism: Definition -__________________________________________________________
Example sentence - ______________________________________________________________
Italian city-state: Definition - ___________________________________________________
Example sentence - ______________________________________________________________
Nurture: Definition - __________________________________________________________
Example sentence - ______________________________________________________________
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Mind-maps. Write down key words, character connections, their histories, things they do in the
play. Use quotations as evidence!
Caliban
Prospero
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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.