Thursday, 20 June 2013

Work to prepare for Wednesday 26 June onwards





Persepolis work


Your chapter is:



Chapter
Page
Scholar
The Veil
3
John
The Bicycle
10
Noah
The Water Cell
18
Madeleine
Persepolis
26
Deborah
The Letter
33
Jo
The Party
40
Jack
The Heroes
47
Eleanor
Moscow
54
Fred
The Sheep
62
Famhi
The Trip
72
Keira
The F-14s
80
Freja
The Jewels
87
Peter
The Key
94
Furkan
The Wine
103
Jamie
The Cigarette
111
Indi
The Passport
118
Marina
Kim Wilde
126
Cam
The Shabbat
135
Lucas & Liam
The Diary
143
John




























You need to:

1. Summarise the chapter in no more than 10 bullet points.
2. Send your summary to me by email or give me the handwritten copy.
3. Refer to the three prompts on the SAC sheet

i. The worst battle you have to fight is between what you know and what you feel.
ii. Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
iii. The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and their self.

4. Identify at least one panel from the chapter that relates to one of the prompts. You should be able to identify at least two of the three prompts from each chapter.



My example.

The Veil p3 John

Summary


  • MS is 10 at the time of the revolution
  • All girls now have to wear the veil to school
  • Schools are now segregated
  • MS’s mother protests against the veil and against the restrictions on women’s rights
  • MS is very religious as a child
  • Her family is wealthy
  • Her grandmother is important to her
  • MS talks to God
  • She wants to be a prophet
  • Her family is unhappy with this so she tells them she wants to be a doctor




How the chapter relates to the prompt

Prompt 3 – conflict with self: panel 5 on p8 to panel 5 p9 – MS understands the problem other people have with her wanting to be a prophet so she tells them what they want to hear.

Prompt 1 – battle between know and feel: p5: MS’s mother is conflicted between what she knows (the veil represents a restriction on women’s rights) and what she feels (fear of the repercussions)

or

what she knows (the revolutionary state could punish her for her opposition) and what she feels (that being forced to wear the hijab is a violation of her human rights)


It depends on your point of view.

4 comments:

  1. Here is a link to first few chapter comments:

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/76433280/first%20few%20chapters%20of%20book%201.pdf

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    1. You will have to copy the link into a new window. It works!

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  2. Here are most of the rest of the Book 1 chapters:

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/76433280/more%20chapters.pdf

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  3. Here are the final three chapters for Book 1:

    Kim Wilde Pg 126 Cam

    Summary
    • Parents get passports
    • Parents go to Turkey
    • They buy MS a posters
    • Go through customs and hide the poster inside Ebi’s coat
    • Mr and Mrs satrapi go through customs and don’t get caught
    • Parents arrive home and Marjane gets new shoes, a denim jacket, posters and a Michael Jackson badge
    • Marjane walks down the streets with her new gifts to go and get some music tapes
    • Marjane gets caught by the women’s branch but crys her way out of it
    • Marjane gets home and listens to her new music tapes


    Prompts

    Prompt 1 what you know and what you feel (pg 129 panel 1 – panel 7)- Mr and Mrs satrapi know bringing stuff back across the border is the wrong [dangerous] thing but they want to do it for Marjane [for her happiness].

    Prompt 2 conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional (pg 132 panel 5-pg 134 panel 4) - the women’s branch decide not to arrest Marjane when she starts crying and walk off


    The Shabbat chapter summary
    By Liam Bell
    • To keep Iran from forgetting that they were at war with Iraq the Iraqis started bombing Tehran with missiles.
    • A siren went off three minutes a bomb was about to go off.
    • Many people fled leaving the city deserted but Marji's family decided to stay in Tehran.
    • One day Marji went out shopping when a missile exploded in her street.
    • A crowd had gathered around her street. the guards who were there wouldn't let Marji through but when she said that she lived there they let her through. Fortunately Marji's family was alright but her neighbours house was hit and completely destroyed.
    • Marji's mum tried to change the subject away form whether the neighbours had died, but then Marji saw the necklace of the neighbours son which looked like it was still attached to the body.

    How the chapter relates to the prompts
    By Liam Bell
    Prompt 2 - Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional:
    Panel 1 on page 136 - The conflict between Iran and Iraq was inevitable after the Iranian revolution [because Saddam Hussein took advantage of confusion within Iran] but the Iraqis didn't have to bomb Tehran.
    Prompt 1 - The worst battle you have to fight is between what you know and what you feel:
    Panel 1 on page 137 - Marjane's parents know that it is safer to leave Tehran but decide to stay there because Marjane's parents feel that if there was to be a future, it would be linked to Marjane's French education which they could only get in Tehran.

    The Diary pp 143–153 John

    • MS is in conflict with her teachers over her dress/burka and jewellery
    • She learns to be aggressive but hits the principal
    • In her next school she challenges the teacher’s interpretation of the political situation
    • She again challenges the religion teacher
    • Tension surrounds the family’s belief of Marjane’s right to stand up for herself, her right to challenge authority and the risks involved
    • The counterfeiter’s assistant, Niloufar, is described as being raped before being executed – for religious reasons
    • MS’s parents decide to send her to be educated at the French school in Vienna
    • Grandma comes to stay – important life lessons are learned about how to smell good, maintain firm breasts and ‘deal with jerks’
    How the chapter relates to the prompts
    Know/feel: pp 145 & 147 – MS’s parents know how risky her defiance is and know they have brought her up well but feel the fear for her situation and feel very sad at her departure for Vienna

    Combat optional: p 143 conflict for MS is inevitable because of her upbringing and her belief in the right to stand up for herself. She chooses combat when she hits the principal.

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