FINAL REVIEW

Mercurial: changeable in mood

As my friend has mercurial moods, we never know how she will be feeling from one moment to the next.

Meticulous: very careful about details

Because Haley is a meticulous cleaner, every inch of her house is spotless.

apprehension: anxiety, fear

The Franks and Van Daans listened to the footsteps below with apprehension.

presentable: acceptable to be seen

I got a new dress for the moving up ceremony so that I can look presentable when I cross the stage.

authentic: genuine, real

I could not wait to go to Italy to explore the authentic culture and food.

Mrs. Van Daan's authentic fur coat!

simultaneously: occurring at the same time

When the bell rang, the students ran out of the school simultaneously.

insolently: disrespectfully

The student was punished for acting insolently.

unobtrusively: without attracting attention

The child sneaks out of the house unobtrusively to meet up with some friends.

tolerant: accepting of differences

The people in the community are tolerant of each other's differences.

hysteria: uncontrolled emotions

The lunch room was in a state of hysteria on the last day of school!

determine: to figure out

The final exam was used to determine if the students would go to high school.

empathetic: able to see others’ point of view

The students tried their best to be empathetic when they heard the story of the Holocaust.

deduce: To figure out

By the end of the novel, the students were able to deduce that Justice Wargrave was the murderer.

Malevolent: evil

Dr. Roylott was a malevolent man because he killed his step daughter.

Hypocrisy: actions that do not match one’s words

Teenagers often have a strong awareness of their parents' hypocrisies

Red Herring: A false clue

"A red herring swallowed one and then there were three."

Dr. Armstrong was made to look extra suspicious to distract us from the true murderer!!

Personification: giving human characteristics to non human subject

Theme: The central message or purpose in a story

Ex: Themes we explored in Tuesdays With Morrie include small acts of kindness, renewal, honesty, & keeping promises!

Foreshadowing: Clues to hint at what might happen later in the story

Laurie's behavior at home foreshadows the big reveal that Laurie is Charles!

The poem and disappearing figures in And Then There Were None foreshadow each death that occurs

Flashback: A scene that relates events that occurred in the past

Ex: Helen Stoner retells the details she remembers about her sister’s death to Sherlock Holmes.

“Oh, my God! Helen! It was the band! The speckled band!”

Morrie remembering his childhood

"At lunch he spoke insolently to his father, spilled his baby sister’s milk, and remarked that his teacher said we were not to take the name of the Lord in vain."

Laurie

Charles

Summary

The story begins with Laurie's mother describing her son's first day of kindergarten. Every day Laurie comes home from kindergarten with tales about his classmate Charles’s misbehavior. After a series of ironic events, Laurie’s parents come to find out that Laurie, is in fact Charles.

"We build our lives one day at a time, often putting in less than our best effort, Than with shock we realize we have to live in the house we have built. If we could do it over, we'd do it much differently, but we cannot go back"

Remember:

“But you put yourself in contact with me,” said the woman. “If you think that that contact is not going to last a while, you got another thought coming. When I get through with you, sir, you are going to remember Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones.”

Summary:

The story begins with an encounter between Roger, a teenage boy, and Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, an older woman walking home from work late one night. He attempts to steal her purse, but because it is so heavy, and Mrs. Jones is quite stout, he merely ends up breaking the strap instead. She kicks him and grabs him by the shirt, asking if he feels ashamed of himself. At the end of the story, Mrs. Jones gives Roger ten dollars to buy the blue suede shoes and tells him not to steal her purse or anyone else's for that matter, as shoes purchased with stolen money cause more trouble than they're worth.

“Jimmy Valentine looked into her eyes, forgetting at once what he was. He became another man.”

Pheonix= a symbol of change

Ralph Spencer is described as a phoenix, an Egyptian bird to represent the change of Jimmy Valentine to Ralph D. Spencer.

Summary

Jimmy is released from prison after being caught robbing banks and starts robbing again within the first week. But on a job in Elmore, Jimmy's life is changed. He burns his past, changes his name to Ralph Spencer, and begins to make an honest living. The story ends with a happily ever after, as Annabel Adams, the woman that changed his life, agrees to marry him.

Summary

In the poem - ‘The Road Not Taken’, the road symbolizes our life. The poet says that the path that we don’t choose in our life is ‘the road not taken’. He describes his feelings about that choice that he had left in the past. The path which we have chosen, decides our future, our destination. The important message that the poet wants to give is that the choice that we make has an impact on our future and if we make a wrong choice, we regret it but cannot go back on it. So, we must be wise while making choices.

Summary

“It is a swamp adder!” cried Holmes; “the deadliest snake in India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent"

Summary:

In The Adventure of the Speckled Band, Sherlock Holmes investigates the case of a young bride to be who fears that she'll be murdered. Helen Stoner, the stepdaughter of Sir Grimesby Roylott, has reason to believe that her stepfather killed her sister—she just doesn't know how.

“Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place."

He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.”

Summary

Tuesdays With Morrie Summary. Morrie is an extremely lovable college professor who—in his late sixties—finds out that he is dying. The story of his last few weeks on earth is told by Mitch, one of Morrie's former students, who happens to bump into him during his final days. Morrie teaches Mitch lessons of love, compassion and life.

The novel opens with all of the main characters traveling by train or car to a ferry that will take them to a mysterious island named Indian Island. Each guest has received an invitation from a Mr. or Mrs. U.N. Owen, or a Mrs. Constance Culmington, to come to the island. With no one on the island but the ten guests, one by one, each character dies.

Summary

Goodrich and Hackett based their masterwork on the book Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager, wrote the diary over a two-year period while she, her family, and others hid from the Nazis in the German-occupied Netherlands until their capture in 1944. Anne's father, the only survivor of the group, recovered the diary in 1945. He sold it to Dutch publishers in 1947.