On-Level: Unit 8 Vocabulary

Added 3/7/17: Here is the Quizlet for Chapter 8

Pre-AP: Our Town Review

Terms to review:

• Dialogue
• Drama
• Metadrama Click here for metadrama definition and information
• Theme
• Tone
• Stage directions
• Setting
• Plot - Non-linear plot structure

Essential questions:

According to this dramatist:

·         What things are ephemeral (lasting only a short while) and what things should be remembered forever?

Motifs (repeated symbols or ideas):

• Annotate the rest of the song to reflect the happenings in Act III. How does this song reflect the plot of the play? How does this song reflect its themes?
• What is the importance of the song “Blessed Be the Tie that Binds?”
• What natural cycles appear in this play? Explain the importance of these natural cycles. Birth/death, seasons/weather
• How is time used in this play? Who talks about it?

Theme:

• What makes this play universal? How does it apply to everyone?
• What universal messages does this play deliver? Be able to support this with quotations.
• Be ready to discuss and provide support for these themes:

o   The beauty in everyday objects and events

o   Humans should not go through life alone

Skills:

• Infer details about characterization from stage directions
• Infer details about characterization from dialogue
• Support an assertion with text evidence

On-Level: Unit 7 Vocabulary Words

Here are the Unit 7 vocabulary words:

Click here for the Unit 7 Quizlet!