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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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Statement 2:

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Quotations:

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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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Statement 3:

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Quotations:

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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.

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