Persepolis a graphic novel with activities

1. ACTIVITY # 7
FOURTH TERM
8° GRADE

2. El estudiante podrá entender, explicar y
analizar características básicas de la novela
gráfica y la función que cumple para sus
protagonistas, como en el caso de Marji en
Persépolis y Ana en el Diario de Anne
Frank, siendo ellas aún muy niñas y
víctimas, Marji ,de la revolución iraní y,
Ana, de la segunda guerra mundial.

3. ACTIVITY 7: PERSEPOLIS: REVIEW OF A GRAPHIC NOVEL
At the opening of the book, Marjane, or Marji, is ten years old. It's the
year after the Iranian Revolution, and although her family has always
been secular, Marji must wear a veil and attend a religious, girls only
school. She's imaginative, but doesn't really understand what's happening.
She gives us a child's eye view of the country's history, from its glorious
past as the Persian city of Persepolis to the tumultuous events leading up
to the present moment. Gradually, her family helps her make sense of
what's going on around her. Violence is a daily event as protests fill the
streets. When her beloved Uncle Anoosh returns, Marji finds out that he
had fought as a revolutionary and spent time in prison. The country
becomes more religious. Marji's mother comes home one day, frightened
after having been accosted for not wearing a veil. Iraq begins bombing
Tehran, and the family has to spend time in a bomb shelter. It's so bad
that a neighboring Jewish family is killed one day during an intense
attack. During all of this, Marji tries to be a normal teenager. She likes
punk music and American clothes, but she frightens her parents when she
buys them on the black market.

4. Increasingly worried about Marji's rebellious behavior, her
parents announce that Marji will be moving to Austria to
attend a new school by herself. Marji's beloved grandmother
helps her pack and tells her never to forget where she came
from. In Vienna, Marji lives briefly with some friends of her
parents, Zozo and her daughter Shirin, but it doesn't go well,
and she quickly moves to a boarding house run by nuns.
When a nun makes cruel comments about Marji's Iranian
heritage, Marji snaps and is thrown out. She moves in with
Julie and her liberal mother. Her boyfriend Markus cheats on
her, and in desperation, Marji begins living on the streets.
After two months, she winds up in the hospital with
bronchitis. Finally, she reconnects with her parents, who
arrange for her to come home…

5. 1. Complete the gaps with a verb from the box in the simple past form:
LIVE FALL LEAVE GROW UP HAVE TO ( X 2) BE (X 2) WANT SEND CHANGE BEGIN
MISS HAVE
Marjane Satrapi _____________ wearing sneakers and beating up boys. She
_____2_____ to grow up to be a saint. When she ______3______ ten years old, her
world _____4_____ overnight. Girls and boys _____5_____ use different doors to
enter the school. She _____6_____ cover herself with a long dark robe.
Grownups around her _____7_____ to disappear. Marjane _____8______ several
close encounters with the country's morality police and her teachers at
school. Iraqi bombs _____9_____ on the street where she _____10_____ . Eventually
her parents _____11_____ her abroad to receive a European education, but
she_____12_____ miserable: she _____13_____ her family and country, despite
their flaws, too much to stay away for long. After a brief return and a failed
marriage, Marjane _____14_____ Iran for good.

6. 1. Complete the gaps with a verb from the box in the simple past form:
LIVE FALL LEAVE GROW UP HAVE TO ( X 2) BE (X 2) WANT SEND CHANGE BEGIN
MISS HAVE
Marjane Satrapi grew up wearing sneakers and beating up boys. She wanted
to grow up to be a saint. When she was ten years old, her world _____4_____
overnight. Girls and boys had to use different doors to enter the school. She
_____6_____ cover herself with a long dark robe. Grownups around her
_____7_____ to disappear. Marjane _____8______ several close encounters with the
country's morality police and her teachers at school. Iraqi bombs _____9_____
on the street where she _____10_____ . Eventually her parents _____11_____ her
abroad to receive a European education, but she_____12_____ miserable: she
_____13_____ her family and country, despite their flaws, too much to stay
away for long. After a brief return and a failed marriage, Marjane _____14_____
Iran for good.

7. 2. According with the Reading No. 1 “ Persepolis: Review of a graphic novel”. Choose the best answer
for the following questions. (Todas las respuestas las encuentras en la lectura, solo debes leer
detalladamente).
1. In Persepolis, the teeneger Marji can
be best described as:
a. Docile
b. Rebellious
c. Pious
d. Apathetic
2. What must Marji and all the women
wear?
a. Religious clothes
b. American clothes
c. A veil
d. Sneakers
3. Why do Marji's parents decide to send her to
Austria in Persepolis?
a. So that she will get a better education
b. They are angry with her for disobeying
religious laws.
c. They worry that she is no longer safe in Iran.
d. As a punishment for failing a grade.
4. What was happened in Marji’s country when
she was a teenager?
a. Her uncle Anoosh had fought as a
revolutionary and spent time in prison.
b. Intense attacks.
c. The Iranian Revolution.
d. The Iran-Iraq War.

8. 1. What are the benefits and boundaries of a culture? The benefits of a
culture are:_____________ and boundaries are:____________________
2. Which will be your contribution to generate a new revolution that helps
your country to build a new society?
3. Have you ever felt like no one understood you or that you didn’t fit in?
Explain.
4. How do you think an immigrant person feel? How can you help them?
5. In what sense do women and men have the same rights?
3. Answer the following questions with your own ideas?

9. Graphic novels used to have panels. A panel is:
Panel: A distinct segment of the comic, containing a combination of image and text in endless
variety. Panels offer a different experience then simply reading text: The spatial arrangement
allows an immediate proximity of the present and the past.
4. Draw your own split identity panel. Put yourself in the middle. What are your two most
important, but different, parts of your personal identity? How do they conflict? Use as much
space as possible.
Dibuja tu propio panel de identidad
dividido. Ponte en el medio. ¿Cuáles
son las dos partes más importantes,
pero diferentes de tu identidad
personal? ¿Cómo entran en conflicto?
Utiliza el espacio que sea necesario para
representar tu identidad con dibujos y
palabras. Sigue el ejemplo que te
presentamos a continuación sobre la
personalidad de Marji. Hazlo en español
e inglés.