The information covered includes anything from the history of picture books through Charlotte’s Web.
For this first part of your midterm exam, please supply two significant and identifying facts about each of the individuals listed. By “significant and identifying facts,” I mean points that specific are specific to these individuals and that you learned from the course or from your readings that can clearly identify the importance of the individuals. For example, if the person is “Templeton,” the answer, “he is a character in Charlotte’s Web” would not be sufficient because that is not “identifying” — there are many characters in Charlotte’s Web, and that kind of answer would not “show what you know” about the character or the text. A better answer would be: “Templeton is the gluttonous and kind of selfish rat in Charlotte’s Web (fact 1) who ends up reluctantly helping to saving Wilbur and Charlotte’s children when he removes their egg sack from the barn” (fact 2. The list below includes a mix of real and fictional individuals.
1.St. George (the legend)
2. E.B. White
3. Ted Hughes
4. Maria Isabel
5. Yingtao’s Father
6. The Bunny
7.max
8. John Newbery
9. Townspeople (The Reluctant Dragon)
10. Hogarth
11. Dragon (The Reluctant Dragon)
12. Randolph Caldecott
13. Yingtao Yan
14. Avery Arable
15. Teacher (My Name Is Maria Isabel)