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Inverloch is a series of five fantasy graphic novels authored by Sarah Ellerton drawn in a cel-shaded manga style. Inverloch was initially published as a webcomic with new content introduced several pages at a time from 2003 to 2007. Three volumes have seen print with the first three volumes currently available from IndyPlanet and with the first two originally published by Seven Seas Entertainment. Inverloch received several nominations in the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards, winning the Outstanding Fantasy Comic category in 2005. During its web publication Inverloch was highly rated at both Topwebcomics and buzzComix online comic rating sites.
The story of Inverloch follows the journey of Acheron and his companions to find the whereabouts of the elf Kayn'dar. It was scripted in December 2003, although it was constantly edited and refined throughout its production.[1]
- 1 Background, production and style
- 2 Synopsis
- 3 Races of Inverloch
- 4 Translations
- 5 Awards
- 6 Books
- 7 Notes
- 8 External links
Background, production and style[edit]
Inverloch author Sarah Ellerton was already an experienced artist before she began the project,[1] and says she chose to create a webcomic as a means of improving her art.[2] Ellerton wrote out the script for the entire comic ahead of time, in December 2003,[1] as a five-volume series. She began illustrating the comic in June 2004,[1][3] updating twice a week[4] with several new pages uploaded per update,[5][6] and finished the comic in 2007.[3]
After finishing Inverloch, Ellerton began work on a second webcomic (the plot and setting of which are unrelated to those of Inverloch), called The Phoenix Requiem. That comic, like Inverloch, consists of five volumes and has a total of 800 pages; the last page was published on March 17, 2011.[7]
To create each page of Inverloch, Ellerton planned out the panels with sketches on paper and then drew and colored them in Adobe Photoshop using a Wacom graphics tablet.[6] She drew each panel individually, rearranging, resizing, and organizing them in Photoshop.[1] Each page is in book format, and the size and shapes of the panels within each page varies.[4]
Volume 1 of Inverloch was published in print form on May 15, 2006.[8] Ellerton redrew the first five pages for the published version, saying that the artistic style had changed since those pages were originally produced.[9] Volume 2 was published on November 15, 2006.
Volume 1[edit]
The story begins when Acheron, a young da'kor, forms an unlikely friendship with Shiara, an elf. When Shiara reveals to him that her childhood love, Kayn'dar, disappeared twelve years earlier, Acheron promises to find him for her. When he explains to his mother that he will be leaving, it becomes apparent to him that his mother, brother, and uncle all know something about Kayn'dar, but are unwilling to tell him. Before leaving, Acheron also visits his uncle Selak, who gives him a pendant that was once owned by Kayn'dar.
Volume 2[edit]
Acheron first sets out to find Lei'ella, an elven woman whom one of the da'kor says can help him find Kayn'dar. While searching for her in the human town of Strathwood, he is assaulted by Berard, a human criminal who captures da'kor to use in gladiatorial fighting rings. At that moment Lei'ella appears and rescues him, after which he explains his goal and she agrees to join him. From there they travel to Rhyll, where Acheron catches a thief named Varden trying to steal from him; Varden claims that he must now serve Acheron, according to the "thieves' code," and Acheron allows him to join their group. At Lei'ella's suggestion, they go to Aydensfell, a city inhabited by humans who have traces of elven blood and study magic. The Archmage of Aydensfell tells Acheron that he should seek someone named Silvah, rather than Kayn'dar, and allows a young mage named Neirren to join them.
Volume 3[edit]
The group then travels to a city called Muirfold to search for Silvah. In the city they split up to ask about his whereabouts, and Acheron is captured by Berard, who had been following them. To rescue Acheron and prevent Berard from following them in the future, Varden approaches Berard and requests to fight Acheron in the gladiatorial ring. There, Varden wounds Acheron with a poisoned blade to make him appear dead, and kills Berard. They then take Acheron out of the city, where he eventually reawakens.
Volume 4[edit]
From there, the group finds an old watchtower and enters it, ultimately finding Silvah, a white-haired elf, inside. Silvah explains to them that Kayn'dar had been killed, and that he is living in the watchtower to perfect his magical abilities in order to avenge Kayn'dar. The groups leaves the watchtower, and then Lei'ella explains to the group that because Silvah is a white-haired and golden-eyed elf like her but can still use magic (whereas Lei'ella, like most elves of that variety, have no magical abilities), then "Silvah" must be Kayn'dar, since before disappearing Kayn'dar had been famous as the only white-haired elf to possess magical powers. They return to the watchtower to confront Silvah, and Lei'ella accuses him of throwing away the only hope for elves such as them. Angered, and worried about his secret getting out, Silvah stabs Lei'ella, and then flees with Raul, the former archmage who is now involved in Silvah's plan. Acheron is able to heal her, however, using Kayn'dar's pendant, which possesses the memories and spirit of Kayn'dar.
Once recovered, Lei'ella explains to the group that both she and Kayn'dar are "severed elves": elves who were born without their connection to nature, and thus are mortal like humans and unable to use magic. Kayn'dar, however, was able to use magic as a child, and thus had been seen as a savior for the severed elves.
Volume 5[edit]
The group returns to Aydensfell, the city of mages, and the Archmage explains to them that the kidnapping of Kayn'dar had, in fact, been orchestrated by himself and Raul, as an attempt to learn more about elven healing magic. When the experiment had failed, Raul and "Silvah," the personality that inhabited Kayn'dar's body, had left and become recluses. Acheron, Lei'ella, Varden and Neirren decide to go back to the forest of Inverloch and seek aid from the elves. They determine that, if there is a way overcome Silvah and restore Kayn'dar's soul, they will first have to get him away from Raul's influence.
In the forest, Lei'ella soon feels the presence of Raul, alone, and Neirren goes out to face him, telling the rest of the group to continue on without her. They go on and find Silvah at the ruins of Inverloch, preparing a spell that will sever all elves from nature. Also at the ruins is Shiara, powerless to stop Silvah. Together, they begin to fight Silvah, hoping to wear him down to the point that he is unable to cast the spell. Meanwhile, Neirren defeats Raul, and before he dies she absorbs his memories and knowledge into herself. She goes to where the others are fighting Silvah, and helps Silvah kill Acheron.
When Acheron dies, Silvah suddenly stops fighting, and collapses. When he awakens, he identifies himself as Kayn'dar, and has all of Acheron's memories. He reveals to the others the details of his kidnapping twelve years before: Raul had, as an experiment, caused Kayn'dar's spirit and the spirit of Silvah, a da'kor, to exchange bodies. Kayn'dar's spirit had entered Silvah's body and become Acheron. Silvah, the da'kor whose spirit had taken Kayn'dar's body, desired revenge against the elves who had killed his father, which is why he had ultimately desired to sever all the elves. When he killed Acheron, Silvah's spirit had also died, allowing Kayn'dar's spirit to return to its elven body and thus restoring Kayn'dar.
With Silvah and Raul dead, the group retires to the elven city. Varden and Lei'ella eventually leave for Muirfold to start a life together, and Neirren, armed with Raul's knowledge, returns to Aydensfell to pursue her magical studies. Shiara is, at first, angry at Kayn'dar for killing Acheron, for whom she had had strong feelings, but eventually realizes Kayn'dar still is Acheron.
- Gender: Male
- Race: Da'kor
- First Appearance: Chapter 1, Page 7
Acheron is a young da'kor and the main protagonist in Inverloch. He lived with his older brother and mother in the small da'kor village of Kiadho. Though da'kor are stereotyped as being violent and brutish, Acheron is peaceful and always tries to avoid conflict. He has a tendency to trust anyone, even criminals, and is hesitant to judge people based on their race or lifestyle.
In the conclusion of the story, it is revealed that Acheron was actually the spirit of Kayn'dar in Acheron's body.
- Gender: Female
- Race: Elf
- First Appearance: Chapter 4, Page 116
Lei'ella is a "severed elf" who has been expelled from the elven lands. She spent two years with a small community of other Severed elves, and eventually decided to join the humans as a thief-catcher. Ashamed of her heritage, Lei'ella spends most of the comic wearing a hooded cloak to conceal her distinctive ears, hair, and eyes.
In the early parts of the comic Lei'ella appears aggressive; furthermore, because of the nature of her job, she bears a particular hatred for thieves and other criminals.
- Gender: Male
- Race: Human
- First Appearance: Chapter 9, Page 249
Varden is a renowned thief in the city of Rhyll. Before joining Acheron, he had made his living off of thieving commissions, stealing valuable items for wealthy noblemen. When his face became known and Rhyll became too dangerous for him, he joined Acheron's group merely as a ruse to escape the city; as the story progresses, however, he befriends his companions and remains with the group of his own accord.
Varden claims to dislike elves, and eventually explains that he feels this way because his mother abandoned his family to marry an elf.
- Gender: Female
- Race: Human
- Class: Mage
- First Appearance: Chapter 10, Page 297
Neirenn is part of a population of humans who have some elven blood and are able to use magic. She attends the magic school at Aydensfell, and is very precocious, learning quickly without much need for practice.[10] She is only fifteen years old, and sometimes becomes frustrated with Lei'ella and Varden for treating her like a child.[11]
- Gender: Male
- Race: Elf
- First Appearance: Chapter 1, Page 2
Kayn'dar is a "severed elf" who vanished, twelve years before the beginning of the events in the comic, at the age of six. He was betrothed to Shiara before his disappearance. Acheron and his companions eventually find him living in a secluded watchtower, studying dark magic under the name "Silvah." He bears a deep resentment for elves and wants to sever their ties with nature once and for all, thus making them mortal and taking away their magical abilities.
In the story's denouement, it is revealed that Kayn'dar's true spirit was actually within Acheron: when he was kidnapped, his spirit and the spirit of Silvah, a da'kor, had exchanged bodies. The atrocities Kayn'dar commits in the story were actually carried out by Silvah, and when Silvah kills Acheron then Kayn'dar's spirit, which is one and the same as Acheron's, returns to Kayn'dar's body.
Other characters[edit]
Berard formerly worked as a thiefcatcher with Lei'ella, and seems to have been in a relationship with her. At the time of the story, he is a criminal and is involved with the underground gladiatorial rings that pit humans and da'kor against one another in fights to the death. He is killed by Varden in Muirfold.
Shiara is a young elf whom Acheron meets early in the story and falls in love with. Despite her feelings for Acheron, she still has obligations to Kayn'dar, her betrothed who disappeared twelve years earlier and who she does not know is alive or dead.
Raul is the former archmage of the magic academy at Aydensfell. He was ousted from the academy when, many years before the start of the story, his attempts to understand elven healing magic failed and he was ridiculed by the mages.[12] Neirren claims that his magic skills are poor.[13] When Acheron and his companions find Raul, he is working with Silvah to sever the elves' ties with nature.
Races of Inverloch[edit]
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The world in which Inverloch takes place is populated by several races, described below.
A race of mammalian bi-pedal humanoids, da'kor have canine facial features, as well as short, pointed horns located near the rear of the skull, and large, low, triangular ears. Their eyes are similar to humans'. Their bodies are covered with neutral-colored fur, and they are shorter than humans, their height being comparable to that of a human child.[14] Males have a distinctive crest-like tuft of coarse, dark brown hair between their horns.
Among the other races, da'kor have a reputation for being violent and brutish, and are generally feared by humans,[15] to the point that many da'kor found in human cities are captured and forced into gladiatorial spectacles.[16]
The elves' purpose was originally to care for the world around them with their magic; by the time the story takes place, however, they have largely withdrawn from the outside world.[17] They are described as an arrogant race, one that feels superior to all other races and sees them as short-lived pests. Elves are immortal and have magical abilities, and a few possess healing powers which "can heal any wound and leave no scar."[18]
There are two types of elves: normal elves, and "the Severed," identifiable by their characteristic golden eyes and silver hair. Severed elves can't use magic,[19] and eventually grow old and die like humans.[20] They do, however, retain some elvish traits, such as the ability to sense individuals when in proximity to them. Severed elves are banished when still young because the others elves think of them as "infected" with a disease which rapidly was becoming more and more common.[21]
Humans are considered neither good nor evil. Many humans fear the da'kor, because their stereotype as being violent and dangerous. According to Lei'ella, they are also very prejudiced against the elves.
Mages are humans with small traces of elven blood. Mages do not have a direct connection to the spirit realm like elves do, so they are unable to use healing magic; rather, they draw energy from the natural world around them.[22]
- Inverloch has been translated into eight languages: Finnish, French, Polish, Spanish, Arabic, Italian, German and Russian.[23]
Inverloch has been nominated for and has won a number of Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards,[24] shown in the table below.
- Inverloch: Volume One. ISBN 1-933164-13-1
- Inverloch: Volume Two. ISBN 1-933164-27-1
- ^ a b c d e Houck, Janet. "Inverloch's Sarah Ellerton Tells All". gomanga.com. Retrieved 2008-09-27. External link in
- ^ Schroeder, Al. "Invariably Inverloch: Al Schroeder interviews Sarah Ellerton". ComixTalk. Retrieved 2008-09-27.
- ^ a b Ellerton, Sarah. "Inverloch: About". Inverloch. Retrieved 2008-09-27.
- ^ a b Alverson, Brigid (November 14, 2007). "Review: Inverloch". Digital Strips. External link in
- ^ "Inverloch Review". KillBoredom.com. Retrieved 2008-09-27. External link in
- ^ a b "Inverloch: Interview". KillBoredom.com. Retrieved 2008-09-27. External link in
- ^ Ellerton, Sarah. "The Phoenix Requiem: Frequently Asked Questions". The Phoenix Requiem. Retrieved 2008-09-27. External link in
- ^ "Inverloch: manga volumes". Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC. Retrieved 2008-09-27.
- ^ "Inverloch volumes 1 & 2: Inkspot review". Pulp Faction. June 21, 2007. Retrieved 2008-09-27. External link in
- ^ Ellerton, Sarah. Chapter 12, Scene 2. Inverloch.
- ^ Ellerton, Sarah. Chapter 16, Scene 1. Inverloch.
- ^ Ellerton, Sarah. Chapter 18, Scene 1. Inverloch.
- ^ Ellerton, Sarah. Chapter 18, Scene 1. Inverloch.
- ^ Ellerton, Sarah. Chapter 7, Scene 1. Inverloch.
- ^ Ellerton, Sarah. Chapter 4, Scene 3. Inverloch.
- ^ Ellerton, Sarah. Chapter 6, Scene 1. Inverloch.
- ^ Ellerton, Sarah. Chapter 20, Scene 1. Inverloch.
- ^ Ellerton, Sarah. Chapter 16, Scene 3. Inverloch.
- ^ Ellerton, Sarah. Chapter 20, Scene 1. Inverloch.
- ^ Ellerton, Sarah. Chapter 20, Scene 1. Inverloch.
- ^ Ellerton, Sarah. "Chapter 20, Scene 1." Inverloch.
- ^ Ellerton, Sarah. Chapter 22, Scene 3. Inverloch.
- ^ Inverlock translation into Russian done in comicslate.org
- ^ "WCCA Awards". Retrieved 2008-09-13.
External links[edit]
- Official Site
- Seven Seas Entertainment's Inverloch webpage
- Review of Inverloch at IGN
- Gomanga.com interview with Sarah Ellerton
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Police are hoping surveillance video will help them identify and find the man who robbed a north Charlotte Sonic, America's Drive-In then fired at a customer who tried to stop him.
The robbery happened just after 11 a.m. Sunday at the Sonic Drive-in on Mount Holly-Huntersville Road.
Eyewitness News reporter Mark Becker talked to customers and neighbors who said the robbery comes as a surprise.
The neon sign was flashing open just before noon with no hint of what had happened there less than 12 hours earlier.
That's when police said a man with a gun walked into the Sonic and confronted the employees on duty taking cash from the register and then taking a shot at a customer who tried to follow him.
The drive-thru advertises that it's open until midnight or later and detectives are hoping the store's surveillance cameras captured video of the robbery that will help them identify the suspect.
Neighbors are a little nervous.
Antwan Morris lives in the neighborhood across the street from the Sonic.
"I definitely think as a community, I hope the homeowners association gets together and maybe we can ask for a few more things like more security up in this area," Morris said.


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I turn slowly toward the man with the gun.
"Give. Me. The. Skull." His finger tightens almost imperceptibly around the trigger.
I don't move. Time slows. My heart rate decreases. Statues are less still. The only sound is my own breathing, calm and steady.
He says something else but I don't hear it. A bead of sweat drips from his hairline.
Inhale. Exhale.
He fires.
The gun in his hand is a semi-automatic Smith & Wesson .45 Chief's Special, commonly used by law enforcement. Apparently, also favored by crazed psychiatrists.
Semi-automatic handguns have the delightful capability of using the energy from the first bullet fired to load the second bullet (you guessed it, automatically). This means that the weapon can be fired continuously until the damn thing is empty, no reloading or cocking necessary.
I just want to give you some perspective before I tell you how I totally own this guy.
The first round goes wide, hitting the wall a few feet away. I figure with those squinty little eyes he probably isn't the best shot.
I'm on him before he can fire again.
Ok, maybe not exactly before, but I'm still pretty damn fast. I have a close-up view of his eyes widening, and my arm does this ninja jiu-jitsu Batman type maneuver I didn't even know I was capable of that pushes the gun away. Right as it goes off next to my ear.
The sound is incredible.
I karate chop the gun out of his hand (ow!!) and punch him hard in the throat in the same heartbeat. He goes down like a sack of potatoes, ker-thump!
Then I kick him in the ribs, 'cuz well...it feels good.
"You bastard," he wheezes when he gets his throat functioning properly. "Son of a b***h."
He continues on in that vein, writhing on the floor, for another few minutes. I swiftly get bored.
I press the barrel of the handgun against his grubby forehead. He shuts up.
"Right," I say. "So, who are you, again?"
He glares at me. I mean, really glares. Like he majored in glaring at St. Glare's Academy for Glarers and has waited his entire life for something like this to happen so he could prove himself.
"The owner of that skull," he says.
Liar!! the skull shrieks.
"Not buying it," I say cheerfully. "You should stop lying now before it becomes a habit."
The glare intensifies. This alone amazes me so much (who knew the human face could hold that position for so long?!) that his next words don't faze me.
"That skull is mine, it rightfully belongs to me! You think you can just waltz right in and steal it!" Contemptuously, now. "You don't even know what it is you stole, do you?"
"Why don't you tell me?"
"It's worth more than your life, I can tell you that."
"Yeah, that's become abundantly clear to me." I shift into a more comfortable position while keeping the gun trained on psycho's forehead.
"Why don't we talk about me for a second?" I say. "Why am I here?"
"You're here because someone paid you to steal the skull," he says in the same voice someone would use to explain something to a toddler.
"I don't remember that."
"You wouldn't. You're not paid to remember."
"What the hell does that mean?!" I snarl. There's nothing I hate more than my mind being screwed with. I press his forehead with the gun for emphasis.
"That's part of the deal, isn't it? You give up your memories in exchange for your cut."
"But I don't remember anything! My name, nothing!"
"Exactly!! It's insurance! This assures that if you get caught in the act you can't give away who you work for! In the process you're just a drone; you don't have a home or a family or a name. You live to steal the object you're after."
I take a deep breath. It makes sense. In the museum, I thought of nothing but the skull and escape. And the skull is sitting behind me quietly, where I left it. It isn't accusing the fat guy of being a liar.
"What happens after?" I ask in a moment.
"After you steal the thing? The person who hired you gives you your money and your memories. All part of the deal."
What if he doesn't? What's to keep the guy from getting the loot and keeping all the money? What protects the thief in this scenario? A shiver is born in my spine and spreads to my ribcage.
"You didn't hire me."
"Then how did you find me?"
"I was there when he hired you. I knew where you'd be." He seems to be talking a lot more now. Maybe he likes to hear himself. Or maybe he's enjoying this.
"One last question," I tell him. "Where is the person who hired me?" The person with my memories. The person who can give me back my life.
He smiles.
"Something bad happened to him."
In my mind, so fast I can't even gasp: A dark-haired man tilts his head to the side. Hands me something, metal and shiny. It's thrilling isn't it? The room is dark and bright at the same time. Lights make my head hurt. There are feathers on the floor. What you can do. Rooms spinning. He's only a little older than me. What does he have so much money for? Do you enjoy it? Hands over my eyes. Wings. He has----
The alley is back. I shudder. It starts in my bones and works it's way out. The gun shakes in my hand.
The skull grins. Memories, it says.


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FCAT Reading Grade 7 Content Focus Areas • • Vocabulary Reading Application: • • • • • • • • Literary Analysis • • Author's Purpose Cause and Effect Comparison/Contrast Main Idea and Supporting Details Synthesizing Information From Two Sources Text Organizational Patterns Text Features Descriptive and Figurative Language Informational Text / Research Process • Determining Reliability and Validity of Information Test Compilation: FCAT Reading Portion Grade 7 – Vocabulary: 20% Reading Application: 30% Literary Analysis: 30% Informational Text: 20% Major Benchmarks Students are expected to master a key set of benchmarks as established by the Department of Education. These benchmarks are featured in the form of questions on the FCAT. Here are some of the key benchmarks your child will be expected to know: Major Benchmarks Vocabulary The student will use context clues to determine meanings of unfamiliar words. The student will identify and understand the meaning of conceptually advanced prefixes, suffixes, and root words. The student will identify advanced word/phrase relationships and their meanings. The student will determine the correct meaning of words with multiple meanings in context. Sample Vocabulary Question – Context Clues I was looking for a pencil, rummaging through papers in the back of my desk drawer, where things accumulate for years, when I turned up one of Poppa's old business cards . . . What does accumulate mean as used in the excerpt above? to pile up to mingle to fall apart to disappear Major Benchmarks Reading Application The student will analyze the author's purpose (e.g., to persuade, inform, entertain, explain) and perspective in a variety of texts and understand how they affect meaning. The student will determine the main idea or essential message in grade-level or higher texts through inferring, paraphrasing, summarizing, and identifying relevant details. Major Benchmarks Reading Application The student will identify cause-and-effect relationships in text. The student will analyze a variety of text structures (e.g., comparison/contrast, cause/effect, chronological order, argument/support, lists) and text features (main headings with subheadings) and explain their impact on meaning in text. The student will compare and contrast elements in multiple texts. Sample Reading Application Question – Author's Purpose Read this excerpt from the essay. Maybe he was five feet six if his heels were not worn. Maybe he weighed 155 pounds if he had a good meal. Maybe he could see a block away if his glasses were clean. Why does the author describe Poppa's appearance in this way? to provide a clear image of Poppa to suggest that Poppa's strengths were internal to contrast Poppa's size with the size of his project to explain why Poppa might choose to avoid challenges Sample Reading Application Question – Cause & Effect The sample item below is based on "Poppa and the Spruce Tree" on page G–8. Why is the author's discovery of his father's business card a significant event? The author is reminded of his family history. The author is inspired to continue his campaign. The author remembers why he is running for office. The author recalls moving to a new house with his family. Major Benchmarks Literary Analysis The student will locate and analyze elements of characterization, setting, and plot, including rising action, conflict, resolution, theme, and other literary elements as appropriate in a variety of fiction. The student will locate and analyze an author's use of allusions and descriptive, idiomatic, and figurative language in a variety of literary text, identifying how word choice is used to appeal to the reader's senses and emotions, providing evidence from text to support the analysis. Major Benchmarks Literary Analysis The student will locate, use, and analyze specific information from organizational text features (e.g., table of contents, headings, captions, bold print, italics, glossaries, indices, key/guide words). Sample Literary Analysis Question– Theme The sample item below is based on "Poppa and the Spruce Tree" on page G–8. Which statement best describes Poppa's approach to life? He was proud of his family ancestry. He provided a good home for his children. He believed a person should work hard and be physically strong. He thought people should meet whatever challenges life brings their way. Sample Literary Analysis Question– Figurative Language The sample item below is based on "Poppa and the Spruce Tree" on page G–8. Read this sentence from the essay. We came home from the store that night to find the spruce pulled almost totally from the ground and flung forward, its mighty nose bent in the asphalt of the street. Which literary device does the author use in the sentence above? simile, comparing the tree to asphalt metaphor, representing the tree as a roadway personification, giving the tree human qualities hyperbole, exaggerating the condition of the tree Major Benchmarks Informational Text/Research Process The student will explain how text features (e.g., charts, maps, diagrams, sub-headings, captions, illustrations, graphs) aid the reader's understanding. The student will assess, organize, and check the validity and reliability of information in text, using a variety of techniques by examining several sources of information, including both primary and secondary sources. Sample Informational Text Question– Text Features The sample item below is based on "Volunteer Day" on page G–12. The author's use of italicized print in the flier aids the reader's understanding by indicating where each activity is scheduled to take place. emphasizing how volunteers should prepare for the activities. drawing attention to specific times matched with specific activities. highlighting the different activities available to interested volunteers. Poppa and the Spruce Tree In this essay Mario Cuomo, former governor of New York, recalls an experience with his father that serves as an inspiration to him. It was first published in the Diaries of Mario M. Cuomo. Poppa taught me a lot about life, especially its hard times. I remembered one of his lessons one night when I was ready to quit a political campaign I was losing and wrote about it in my diary: Tired, feeling the many months of struggle, I went up to the den to make some notes. I was looking for a pencil, rummaging through papers in the back of my desk drawer, where things accumulate for years, when I turned up one of Poppa's old business cards, the ones we made up for him, that he was so proud of: Andrea Cuomo, Italian-American Groceries— Fine Imported Products. Poppa never had occasion to give anyone a calling card, but he loved having them. I couldn't help wondering what Poppa would have said if I told him I was tired or discouraged. Then I thought about how he dealt with hard circumstances. A thousand pictures flashed through my mind, but one scene came sharply into view. We had just moved to Holliswood, New York, from our apartment behind the store. We had our own house for the first time; it had some land around it, even trees. One, in particular, was a great blue spruce that must have been 40 feet tall. Less than a week after we moved in, there was a terrible storm. We came home from the store that night to find the spruce pulled almost totally from the ground and flung forward, its mighty nose bent in the asphalt of the street. My brother Frankie and I could climb poles all day; we were great at fire escapes; we could scale fences with barbed wire—but we knew nothing about trees. When we saw our spruce, defeated, its cheek on the canvas, our hearts sank. But not Poppa's. Poppa and the Spruce Tree cont'd. Maybe he was five feet six if his heels were not worn. Maybe he weighed 155 pounds if he had a good meal. Maybe he could see a block away if his glasses were clean. But he was stronger than Frankie and me and Marie and Mamma all together. We stood in the street looking down at the tree. The rain was falling. Then he announced, "O.K., we gonna push 'im up!" "What are you talking about, Poppa? The roots are out of the ground!" "Shut up, we gonna push 'im up, he's gonna grow again." We didn't know what to say to him. You couldn't say no to him. So we followed him into the house and we got what rope there was and we tied the rope around the tip of the tree that lay in the asphalt, and he stood up by the house, with me pulling on the rope and Frankie in the street in the rain, helping to push up the great blue spruce. In no time at all, we had it standing up straight again! With the rain still falling, Poppa dug away at the place where the roots were, making a muddy hole wider and wider as the tree sank lower and lower toward security. Then we shoveled mud over the roots and moved boulders to the base to keep the tree in place. Poppa drove stakes in the ground, tied rope from the trunk to the stakes, and maybe two hours later looked at the spruce, the crippled spruce made straight by ropes, and said, "Don't worry, he's gonna grow again . . . ." I looked at the card and wanted to cry. If you were to drive past that house today, you would see the great, straight blue spruce, maybe 65 feet tall, pointing straight up to the heavens, pretending it never had its nose in the asphalt. I put Poppa's card back in the drawer, closed it with a vengeance. I couldn't wait to get back into the campaign. General reading strategies that can be reinforced at home. • • • • • • • Scanning the Text Predicting Selective Underlining Margin Note-taking Summarizing Identify tone Re-read parts of passage General question frames that can be applied to any passage. You can increase vocabulary: What does the author mean by saying papa had likened her so? Which words add to the idea that papa was so fond of Ma? What does the word sheen mean in the poem? General question frames that can be applied to any passage. You can discuss main idea: What would be another good title for this poem? What is the essential message in this poem? What detail supports the main idea that Pa is very fond of Ma? General question frames that can be applied to any passage. You can discuss author's purpose: What is the author's purpose in telling the reader that Ma was always suited? Why did the author write this poem? What else can YOU do to help? Encourage your child to read every night. Reading Counts, it really does!!!! Monitor reading logs. 40 points per quarter – regular classes 60 points – advanced classes Turn Off The TV, computer, phone, video game!! Make sure students are completing their FOCUS assignments without help or interruptions. Read with your child. Model by reading books/newspapers at home. Make sure your child is completing all homework assignments. Math FCAT FCAT Math Test Design Two 60 minutes sessions on the same day. Approximately 60-65 questions Two types of questions: Multiple choice Gridded response Reference Sheet Provided Four function calculator Not a computation test Expressions, Equations, and Functions Geometry and Measurement Number Concepts: Operations, Problems, Statistics 40% 35% 25% FCAT SSS Math Multiple Choice Gridded Response No extended response v v v v v Recall Single Unit Conversion One-step problems LOW COMPLEXITY Retrieve Info From graph Compute sum, difference, product, quotient Reasoning Formulate problems, given data Multiple Operations MODERATE COMPLEXITY Use info from graph to solve problems Extend Algebraic Geometric Patterns Provide Mathematical Justification Multiple Steps, Multiple Decisions Describe. Analyze. HIGH COMPLEXITY Explain. Justify. Solve nonroutine problems v v v v v Gridded Response Question Test-Taking Tips Get plenty of sleep and eat a good breakfast the morning of the test. Underline important words. Cross out answer choices you know are wrong. Do the easy questions first. Change an answer only when you are sure the first answer is wrong. Mark an answer for every question Be sure each answer is marked in the right place. How you can help your child prepare for the Math FCAT. Make sure your child is completing his or her homework. Calculate tips and total bill while dining out. Compute gas mileage. Figure out percentages while shopping: taxes, sales, discounts, rebates. Practice math facts every day. (Great websites available) While cutting up a pizza, a pie, or a cake, talk about fractions. Discuss conversions using household items, i.e., 2 liter bottles/gallon of milk. Point out graphs and charts in newspapers and discuss the findings and how displayed. Testing Dates April 16 - 27*, 2012 *includes make-up days Helpful Websites Math www.connected.mcgraw-hill.com (textbook website) http://fcat.fldoe.org/ www.fcatexplorer.com www.studyguidezone.com/fcattest.htm Studyisland.com Reading http://www.edinformatics.com/testing/testing.htm Writing http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/# For copies of this presentation, please visit our school website www.pinescharter.net. West Campus General Tab FCAT Family Night PowerPoint Presentation Thank you for your time, attention, and dedication. Together we can ensure your child's success!


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Nathan Friend's future is set to be decided in the next two weeks, as the Warriors examine their hooking options for 2014 and beyond.
The Australian was signed midway through the 2011 season on a two-year deal, with the club and player holding an option on the third.
At the time, Lance Hohaia and Aaron Heremaia had done well sharing the role but the Mt Smart brains trust looked across the competition, saw the likes of Cameron Smith, Robbie Farah and Matt Ballin, and decided an 80-minute hooker was a key part of the jigsaw.
There is no guarantee that Friend will remain in Auckland next year. The hooker is said to be happy to stay but the club are still working through their options. Their pursuit of Todd Carney was revealing; it could be construed that, if the Cronulla player had arrived to play in the halves, then Thomas Leuluai (a hooker for the majority of his Wigan career) would be an option for the dummy half role.
In their current predicament, the club seems to need Friend's character, attitude and workrate more than ever.
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Pita Godinet's emergence has complicated matters this year. The 25-year-old has developed into a bona fide NRL No 9. At the moment, Friend and Godinet form part of the Warriors' best 17; Friend with the steel, Godinet the silk.
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"I am happy to be playing first grade," says Godinet. "But I am at the point where I am going to need more game time. I've spoken to Matt about that."
Meanwhile, the intensely competitive Friend wants nothing less than the full quota every week.
"I'm always a bit dirty when I come off," says Friend. "As an individual, you always think if something happens - 'I could have saved that'. I've played the 80 minutes for the last six or seven years and would be happy to do that again."
Ideally, the Warriors like to use Friend for the first 30 minutes and then bring Godinet on leading into halftime to, in Elliott's words, "buzz the team up". Godinet then stays on for a period into the second half, before the rock-solid Australian comes on to guide the team home. Potentially it could be a dynamic mix, though it will become increasingly difficult to keep both players happy.
"It's what we want," says Elliott. "We want to build competition. Getting that balance is not about pre-conceived ideas; balance is about how people are playing."
Godinet's development has been one of the positives this season. Previously seen as a utility, as a back-up in the halves in case of injury, Christchurch-born Godinet probably surprised himself with his own form. He still has erratic moments but offers vision, pace and unpredictability from dummy half.
"The coaches had a bit of doubt in me at the start of the year, mainly around my defence," admits Godinet. "But I proved them wrong in that last trial match [against Brisbane] and I earned my spot."


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Release Tilikum. Let Tilikum live the rest of his life in freedom.
Tilikum has been in captivity for too long and NO living soul deserves this kind of treatment. All animals should be FREE and in their own environment, not used for personal entertainment. Tilikum was forced to mate, do tricks, and live in a tank that is not even 1% of his natural environment. He was isolated for a year from other whales. Whales are social animals and can't be alone or else they go crazy. The way humans treat Tilikum and the other Orcas at SeaWorld is DISTGUSTING and INHUMANE. Imagine being trapped in a jail cell for the rest for your life. Imagine being given food only when you do tricks. Imgaine having no contact with people for a year. You would get a little crazy and frustrated. PLEASE HELP TILIKUM BY HELPING HIM BE RELEASED INTO A SEAPEN. Being released into the ocean would not do him good becuase he does not know how to hunt and does not have a pod which he can depend on. At least being released into a sea sanctuary will be a better enviorment for him.
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It is astounding how many females in the public eye reject the term 'feminism' today.
Just this week, Lily Allen threw the very notion of the word under a metaphorical bus when she questioned why 'there was still a conversation about feminism' in the year 2014.
"Feminism. I hate that word because it shouldn't even be a thing anymore," she told Shortlist in an interview to run alongside her guest edited 'How To Be A Man' issue of the magazine.
"We're all equal, everyone is equal. Why is there even a conversation about feminism? What's the man version of feminism? There isn't even a word for it. Menanism. Male-ism. It doesn't exist."
"Fast-forward 100 years: 'Yes, I do believe men should be treated equally,'" she added.
Similarly, Katy Perry famously rejected being labelled "a feminist", but admitted she does believe in "strong women".
Beyoncé, she of "Independent Women", "Who Run The World [Girls]"fame is another who stopped short of being associated with the word feminism because she believes the word is "quite extreme".
Feminist quotes from the icons to inspire you
Feminist quotes from the icons to inspire you
1/35 Katharine Hepburn
"I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone"
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2/35 Madonna
"Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots cause it's okay to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading cause you think being a girl is degrading"
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3/35 Kurt Cobain
"Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there"
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4/35 Betty Friedan
"No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor"
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5/35 Maya Angelou
"I want to be representative of my race - the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be…"
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6/35 Emma Watson
"I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decision-making of my country. I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men."
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7/35 Emmeline Pankhurst
"I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position, that it has to face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote"
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8/35 Patricia Arquette
"To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else's equal rights, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all, and equal rights for women in the United States of America."
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9/35 Nawal El Saadawi
"They said, "You are a savage and dangerous woman. I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous"
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10/35 Margaret Fuller
"It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy"
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11/35 Germaine Greer
"All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women"
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12/35 Naomi Wolf
"A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience"
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13/35 Rebecca West
"I myself have never able to find out precisely what a feminist is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat"
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14/35 Aung San Suu Kyi
"In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued"
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15/35 Margaret Atwood
"Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up"
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16/35 Julie Burchill
"A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men"
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17/35 Scarlett Johansson
"Why do [male co-stars] get the really interesting, existential questions and I get the, like, rabbit food question?"
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18/35 Susan B. Anthony
"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand"
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19/35 Margaret Sanger
"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother"
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20/35 Sylvia Plath
"Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both"
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21/35 Hillary Clinton
"I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life"
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22/35 Lena Dunham
"The idea of being a feminist—so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect with the opposite sex—but what feminism is about is equality and human rights. For me that is just an essential part of my identity. I hope [Girls] contributes to a continuance of feminist dialogue"
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23/35 Bette Davis
"When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch"
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24/35 John Legend
"All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place"
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25/35 Mae West
"Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from"
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26/35 Jane Austen
"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives"
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27/35 Gloria Steinem
"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle"
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28/35 Sheng Wang
"Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding"
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29/35 Anais Nin
"I hate men who are afraid of women's strength"
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30/35 Barack Obama
"We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women's leadership across the country"
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31/35 Elizabeth Warren
"I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women's access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever"
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32/35 Malala Yousafzai
"In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, at that time I realized that education … Is the power for women, and that's why the terrorists are afraid of education"
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33/35 Janis Joplin
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got"
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34/35 Lupita Nyong'o
"I hope that my presence on your screens and in magazines may lead you, young girl, on a similar journey. That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty."
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35/35 Virginia Woolf
"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world"
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Then there are those like Carla Bruni, who say things like this: "[My generation] doesn't need feminism. There are pioneers who opened the breach. I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day."
Others labour on the "I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist" side of caution. Sarah Jessica Parker. Demi Moore. Madonna. All women who should know better. All women who, almost certainly, would change their minds about "feminism", what it means and how painfully relevant it still is today if they read these shocking statistics on equality in the workplace, sexual violence and genital mutilation.
"We need to reclaim the word 'feminism'. We need the word 'feminism' back real bad," writer Caitlin Moran rightly exclaims in her counter-Allen guide, How To Be A Woman.
"When statistics come in saying that only 29% of American women would describe themselves as feminist - and only 42% of British women - I used to think, 'What do you think feminism IS, ladies? What part of 'liberation for women' is not for you? Is it freedom to vote? The right not to be owned by the man you marry? The campaign for equal pay? 'Vogue' by Madonna? Jeans? Did all that good sh*t GET ON YOUR NERVES? Or were you just DRUNK AT THE TIME OF THE SURVEY?'"
Well, we still think this. And we still think that International Women's Day is as important now as it ever has been.
To celebrate, we've eschewed the misunderstood musings of the modern-day mainstream in favour of empowering quotes by feminist icons, past and present, from around the world. Yes, like Katherine Hepburn. Like Anais Nin. Like Malala and Hillary Clinton and Aung San Suu Kyi.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - An Indian director is hoping her new film will throw a spotlight on gay rights in a country where homosexuality remains taboo and little progress has been made on repealing a colonial-era law banning gay sex.
"Margarita, With a Straw", which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September, tells the story of a teenager with cerebral palsy who is unabashed about her sexuality, much to the horror of her middle-class, conservative mother.
Director Shonali Bose, who lives in the United States and identifies herself as bisexual, said the film comes from two personal experiences - that of exploring her own sexuality and the life of her cousin, who suffered from cerebral palsy.
Bose, 49, said she hoped the film would contribute to the debate over Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which forbids homosexual sex, and eventually lead to sexual legitimacy for homosexuals, bisexuals and lesbians.
"I am ready for right-wing protests when my film releases. Bring them on. As long as people can see the film and talk about these issues, I am ready to face it," the film-maker said in a telephone interview.
India's Supreme Court has refused to decriminalize homosexuality. Last year, it overruled a decision by a lower court to declare sexual intercourse between same-sex partners as legal, saying it was up to parliament to repeal such a law.
Many homosexuals remain in the closet and society's attitude toward the gay community is reflected in mainstream cinema, which hardly touches on these topics.
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'There could be a supermassive black hole,' warned the Horizon narrator with apocalyptic glee, 'hiding at the very heart of our galaxy.'
In which case, I would begin the search for it somewhere in the Cheshire countryside, just outside Manchester. This is where David Beckham, the footballer and supermarket-till celebrity, lives in frenetic isolation.
If it did nothing else, The David Beckham Story revealed the absorbing emptiness of contemporary superfame. Fans, photographers, managers, magazine editors and, of course, a camera crew were seen orbiting Beckham, each drawn closer and closer, sucked in by the extraordinary gravitational pull of his duck-billed pout and easy smile. Esquire solemnly announced that he was an 'icon', no less. OK! wanted him in his bathroom. Yet for all the attention, barely a flicker of illumination escaped from behind his blank brown eyes.
The conventional line on Beckham, and one both programme and player had fun with, is that his opaqueness is nothing more than dimness. His wife - referred to here always as Victoria, never 'Posh Spice' - was particularly keen to kill the brainless Becks myth. But her touching protectiveness was largely counterproductive.
On this point, the opening scene was cleverly instructive. In the foreground we saw Beckham drinking a cup of tea in his roomy kitchen, while in the fuzzy distance, with her back to the camera, his wife busied herself at the sink. 'Why do you think you're the most caricatured couple in Britain?' asked the unseen interviewer.
Beckham's mouth moved, but only to chew a biscuit. The voice that answered was his wife's. And while both sought to send up Victoria's trouser-wearing authority, it was clear that in this marriage Beckham was left, so to speak, sporting the sarong.
And you suspect that if it were up to him, he'd be very happy with that arrangement. For Beckham's most endearing quality is that he appears - at least off the pitch - utterly without machismo or ego. Which makes it all the more curious that he should be so monumentally vain. There is, it must be said, nothing remotely neurotic about Beckham's vanity. He's not that complex. His is a pure, almost abstract, narcissism - unlike that of his wife, whose interest in appearance (signified here by a confusing succession of hairdos and outfits) seems to form the basis of her moral outlook. When Beckham mentioned that many people thought he was stupid, she consoled him by saying: 'They're all ugly.'
The list of those who have lived their lives so continually in the public glare, and not been driven mad, is mercilessly short, so short that I cannot think of a single name on it. And Beckham, for all the schoolboyish innocence of his love, both for himself and his family, does not look 100 per cent Priory-proof. We saw him in the midst of a depression brought on by yet another photo-shoot. 'It's come to the point where I'm fed up with it,' he said, as he played, rather too poignantly, with his son's toy car. It seemed for a moment to be a genuine appeal for release from the media zoo, then you remembered that he was making it to a film crew.
Footballers, at least English footballers, are not renowned for their self-insight, and so this was never going to be a study in poetic reflection. Instead the appeal of the documentary, which was considerable, lay in its generous, yet knowing, tone. Its finest moment came at the pointlessly large home of Beckham's teammate and best friend, Gary Neville, when the two European champions haplessly rifled around for a wooden spoon in a kitchen the size of a five-a-side pitch. Had they really wanted to set themselves a difficult task, they could have gone in search of a book - I never spotted one in all the acres of richly furnished living space on view.
Although there was nothing here to embarrass the Beckhams, who apparently enjoyed the right of veto over material used, the filmmakers subtly highlighted a faultline in their relationship. Beckham is famous because he's the most gifted footballer in Britain. His wife is famous because she's worked tremendously hard at marketing an image. He's too ingenuous to know the difference, and she's too canny to admit there is one.
Where the film inevitably failed was in shedding light on Beckham's interior life, such as it is, or on why he craves our attention. Perhaps we must look to cosmology to understand the nature of stars. At the heart of a supermassive black hole is what's known as a singularity, 'a point,' Horizon explained, 'where space, time and all known laws of physics fall apart. What happens at the centre of a singularity is a complete mystery.'
We can never see inside a supermassive black hole. We only know it's there because of the surrounding quasar, the blinding whirlwind of activity on the cusp of implosion. No matter how intense the quasar of flash guns and arc lights pointing towards Beckham, what happens inside the singularity of his head will continue to remain a mystery.
What is certain is that, like every other glittering galaxy, his celebrity aura is destined to collapse sooner or later. Let's hope that when it does, Beckham is supermassive enough to take it all in.
We are reaching the stage where it is easier to count the novels Andrew Davies has not adapted for television, than recall all those that he has. At this rate, it will only be a matter of a year or two before he exhausts the entire Western canon.
His latest offering is Kingsley Amis's Take A Girl Like You. (Next week, perhaps: the Robert Musil trilogy.) Superficially, this comic yarn about a beautiful virgin pursued by a charismatic rake appears ideal for the screen: it's no great hardship to watch a pretty ingénue do romantic battle with a handsome womaniser.
But there's a skittish misanthropy to Amis's humour that does not translate easily from the page. And, more tryingly, the sexual politics of the late Fifties are sufficiently dated to seem awkward, yet not ancient enough to have accreted compensatory charm.
Davies has sought to deal with the problem by playing up the provincial desperation of the period, with its lethal plumbing, self-conscious film clubs and incessant jazz. At the same time, Nick Hurran, the director, casts a dappled glow over Amis's sardonic darkness, even turning the heroine, Jenny Bunn, from a girl with 'very dark colouring' to a platinum blonde.
On the evidence of the first instalment, it mostly works. Sienna Guillory is quite mesmerising as Bunn, all brittle determination and stoical uncertainty. Rupert Graves's Patrick Standish is full of delicious contradictions: left-wing, snobbish, clean-cut and lecherous. Graves seems to have spent decades in retroland, playing a series of ineffectual young men, and perhaps owing to his entrapment in the past, he still looks eligible for a student railcard. At last, there are now promising signs that the angelic sheen is beginning to fade, to be replaced by something more louche, or perhaps even creepy.
It can't be easy to say lines like 'Christ, you're lovely' and 'You are absolutely wonderful', without slipping into a Leslie Phillips impersonation. But Graves stoutly resists parody, even at the cost of losing our sympathy.
Elsewhere, overacting looks to have been shamelessly encouraged. Character parts in television drama are rarely more than opportunities for caricature, and, naturally, comic dramas are that much more susceptible to broad interpretations. Here there was a stagey familiarity to the support roles, as if the actors had been asked to do 'a turn'. The result was a loss of dramatic precision, with the gain, I think, of very few rompy laughs. I note with some trepidation that among the cast is an actor who has yet to appear: Leslie Phillips.
By far the funniest moment on TV all week came in Omnibus's welcome reshowing of its Kingsley Amis profile, The Old Devil. This extended interview with the writer in various biographical locations, had not much of particular interest to say about either his work or life, although it said it amusingly. Its lasting achievement, though, was to capture Amis (like Lucky Jim, a gifted face-puller) pulling what he described as his 'sex life in ancient Rome face'. I don't think it's possible to see it and not cry.
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