Quotes for I am Not Esther

p.43	“My name is Kirby. I am not Esther.”	Kirby	Identity – she is fighting against being Esther
p.43	“I was me. Not some robot they programmed.”	Kirby	Identity and freedom  of expression. Her uncle is trying to control her – she is not a machine.
P.44	“I hate her. I really hate her. I’m so frightened.”	Kirby	She hates her mother. Her mother left her with strangers who are trying to change her.
p.54	Rule 10 – “A daughter respects her elders. She is modest. She does not draw attention to herself.”	Aunt Naomi	Telling Kirby the Rules. She wants her to live by The Rule. Freedom of expression and identity
p.54	“I had nightmares about looking in a mirror and having no face.”	Kirby	Identity – who am I? She was afraid of losing herself.
p.56	“She cannot. The women never do. It is a man’s job.”	Uncle Caleb	Aunt Naomi can’t drive. Women don’t drive.
p.62	“Your sister has not died. She is dead to us…”	Uncle Caleb	Miriam left she didn’t want to follow the rules around drawing – she is dead to them. Courage.
p.70	“Sixteen? Married? ... sitting there in the sun in an ordinary New Zealand back garden, so near the twenty-first century you could practically smell it.”	Kirby	About Damaris and Daniel – because the rules say they should marry.
p.71	“I shivered…and looked into a future where there was nobody who thought the same way I did.”	Kirby	Worried about people around her thinking it is okay to marry at 16. She is worried about staying in the children at the faith.
p.78	“We are not permitted to speak to teachers except to answer questions in class.”	Daniel	The Rule in the church. Not allowed to speak unless spoken to. Church worried about kids getting other opinions.
p.78	“If you don’t have much, little things are really special.”	Daniel	They aren’t allowed to take their clothes off at the beach. It is special just to go.
p.81	“There’s mirrors in toilets. I want to see if I’m still here”… “If I could see a reflection of my mind, it’d be so different I wouldn’t recognize it.”	Kirby	Identity – who am I? She is worried that Kirby is gone and all that is left is Esther.
P.81	“Are you Esther, or are you Kirby?”	Ms Chandler	The counsellor asks her. Identity.

Checklist for essay writing

Not Achieved	Achieved	Merit	Excellence
The explanation is short (6 words!) and not informative/ detailed	·       Explanation is better – more detailed and informative. ·       Has a message from the text ·       Uses PEEL ·       Mentions the audience	·       More linking – link to themselves, they relate to the character, the audience. ·       More details about the example – what happens after ·       More details about the character ·       Has a message from the text ·       Uses PEEL	·       More linking – link to themselves, they relate to the character, the audience. ·       Also links world wide – beyond the text ·       Gets to Excellence through the Explanation ·       More details about the character ·       Has a message from the text ·       Uses PEEL

Revision suggestions

Effective intros

Debating

Bad grammar

speech inspiration?

If you need some inspiration for how to speak, look at some of these speeches made throughout history.

Iconic speeches

Show not tell

The wedding dress scene

New words

The curtain scene

practice paragraph

Explain how the director creates tension in a scene in the film.

• Tension means intense

HOW:

• Lack of sound and then a sudden high pitched sound (violin)
• Medium close up on her face – we see it go from confused to petrified (scared/shocked) as the door slams and she is thrown backwards.

Paragraph:

The director creates tension through the use of music and sound. For example when Grace was curious about why the door kept closing, and she was pushing it backwards and forwards, there was no music. The only sound was the door squeaking as it moved. It was very quiet. When the door suddenly slams, a high pitched violin starts playing, the door slams shut and she is thrown backwards. The lack of music creates tension because it suggests to the audience that nothing is wrong. We are lulled into a sense of false security. When the door slams and the music starts with a high pitch it raises our heart rate and makes us jump because it was so quiet before. This is how the director creates tension.

Piano scene notes 2

The Piano scene

footsteps upstairs scene

Bedroom (Victor scene)

Horror genre brainstorm

paragraph practice #4

Essay writing tips for next week's exam

YOU NEED TO USE THE KEY WORDS FROM THE QUESTION IN YOUR OPENING SENTENCES.

In a DESCRIBE paragraph:

1. 'An interesting/important/significant  event/idea/character/setting  is ________________.
   
2. In the next sentence, you should DESCRIBE IT.
   Eg. If it was an important character you were describing you would say... 'He/She is (then name three describing words eg. brave etc). He/she is also (name three more describing words).
   You should try to use 6 describing words in your describe paragraph.
   
3. Follow this with 'For example__________________ (make sure it is a quote).
   
4. Explain how the example shows us something from the list of 6 things you named at the start.
   'This shows us..._________________.

In an EXPLAIN paragraph:

1. The reason why (name then event/character/setting/idea) is important/interesting/significant because...__________.
   You need to be really clear why it is important. Think about the themes eg. Identity, having courage etc.
   
2. 'For example...__________________.'
   'We saw this when...______________.
   
3. Explain the example above:
   'This showed how...________________.'
   'This was important/interesting/significant because...______________.
   
4. Linking
   'This makes us think about... ________________.'
   'We experience the same thing in our own lives when..._____________'
   

paragraph practice #3 - Ideas

Essay plan #2 Event

WOW 1

Amok (sounds like a-muck)

• behave uncontrollably and disruptively.
• Almost always used as the verb to run amok

In a sentence: the businessmen ran amok at the restaurant


In the comment section below write your own unique sentence that uses the WOW.

1 unique sentence that uses the WOW = 1classdojo point!

Homework: Paragraph answer

You are to write a paragraph answer for I am Not Esther. You are to write about why she is interesting and focus on how she struggles with challenges or changes.

Remember to use PEEL to structure it correctly.

Dojo points for everyone who completes this.

Due Friday 20 May

Explain paragraph as a class

essay writing #1

Symbols in I am Not Esther

Homework - I am Not Esther

Remember to finish reading I am Not Esther this weekend.
On Monday we will be discussing the events that occured.

Shakespeare - what do you know?

Romeo and Juliet link to the play

Romeo and Juliet play

Chp 7-8

Answer chp 5-6

Read chp. 6

Finish chapter 6 tonight so we can talk about it tomorrow in class.

Chp 1 words

Gloriavale reading

Read the article and find clues about what it was like to live in the community and what it is like for people who leave the community. 

Also make notes on any rules that they talk about.

Why do you think people are leaving Gloriavale?

Write your answers into your book.

Families leave Gloriavale Christian Community

By Laura Mills of the Greymouth Star -NZME. regionals

2:23 PM Tuesday Jul 29, 2014

Former Gloriavale Christian Community members have revealed that hundreds have left since its early days, including several families in the past year or so.

On July 17, TV2 screened a documentary following the six-week courtship and marriage of one young couple, after leaders at the Lake Haupiri community opened the doors to a film crew.

Gloriavale - A World Apartfollowed Paul Valor and his courtship and marriage to Pearl Hope. However, after it aired, some ex-members came forward wanting to put what one described as "the other side to the story".

That person, who was born at Gloriavale but left in recent years, said that since the last concert series two years ago, two extended families had left, along with eight of the young, single people.

"Also, a few others have left but then gone back because husbands, wives and children were still in there," the ex-member said.

The Greymouth Star agreed not to use the person's name, or any identifying details.

They said there were two sides to the story, including a hidden one not shown on tv, describing Gloriavale leaders as "professionals at putting on a show to the public".

"Chances are when you leave you will never get to see family-friends again."

They were taught a lot of good things there, and being a part of the biennial concerts was great fun.

But the "freedom I have found in Christ ... since leaving is something I would never exchange for community life".

Another former member, Phil Cooper, said he thought that since the early days, probably half as many had left as were still there. Phil is the son of Gloriavale leader Neville Cooper, who uses the name Hopeful Christian.

In 2009 Phil Cooper told his story in a best-selling book Sins of the Father.

"Two or three families have left this year," he told the Greymouth Star last week.

People leaving now were supported by the families already on the outside, many of them settling throughout Canterbury, he said.

Young people growing up at Gloriavale were cut off from the outside world. When people left, they could not keep in touch with those left inside the community, he said.

This had left people "devastated", Mr Cooper said, referring to the emotional pain of people not being able to see their own mother again.

Young people who had grown up at Gloriavale "don't know anything else".

"My kids have strong faith, they chose that. But (Gloriavale children) know nothing else."

Gloriavale Christian Community spokesman Peter Righteous said today they did not comment on people who had left.

"We haven't got time to be caught up in a lot of nonsense. We have a life we must live before the Lord. If people do not want to live an unselfish life of service to the Lord, it's up to them. They can do as they wish," Mr Righteous said.

The community began at Cust in North Canterbury in 1969 as the Springbank Christian Community, and shifted to Lake Haupiri, 70km east of Greymouth, in the 1990s, going under the new name of Gloriavale. It now numbers about 520.

How would you react?

Write one paragraph in answer to the below question. Use your knowledge of the Gloriavale community documentary in order to answer it.
Due: 12/2/15