ORALS DAY 2: Individual preparation for our Purple Hibiscus Essay

Tasks to be completed whilst orals are being conducted

YOU MUST REMAIN IN SILENCE. NO WHISPERING, NO GETTING OUT OF CHAIRS.
- So that your classmates can do their best in their orals!

- You were VERY GOOD at this yesterday, keep it up for this second day.

Things to be getting on with:

1. You can continue to revise for your oral.

2. Ensure you have completed the CHAPTER FOUR SUMMARY GAPFILL that can be found below on Friday´s blogpost - The aim is to go through this before the end of the lesson.

3. The vocab test which will be used to help calculate your second AIE grade will be next Tuesday 21st February. This will be based on the quizlet lists for chapters one, two, three and four. You can use this time to study these.

4. The essay you will do will focus on EITHER Kambili or Papa. Use this time to find quotes you could use to write about them. Construct a table like the following, for each character.

Key things to bear in mind:

1. For now, aim to fill two of these tables, one for Papa and one for Kambili. Aim for FIVE adjectives with five different quotes for each character.

2. Consider what you think of these characters; which words and adjectives YOU would use to describe them

Possible ones might be:

Papa: loving, intimidating, religious, an important figure, noble...

Kambili: quiet, isolated, oppressed, loving...

Use these for ideas, but come up with your own too. Original ideas will score higher marks than ones that I have given to you.

3. The best quotes are short and to the point. Ten words is usually more than enough. More than ten can be too much. You only need the precise part of the quote to demonstrate your point and from which you can explain in more detail.

4. In your explanation, you should elaborate on your point. Use different words from the quotation AND choose a particular word from your quote and analyse it, explaining its connotations and its effect on the reader.