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What do you know about the show?
Watch the title sequence, thinking
about how you will talk about it with
your partner(s) afterwards.
Watch the title sequence, thinking
about how you will talk about it with
your partner(s) afterwards.
“Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape-shifting Master of
Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil! But a foolish Samurai
warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the
final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the
future, where my evil is law! Now the fool seeks to return to the past,
and undo the future that is Aku!”
“Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape-shifting Master of
Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil! But a foolish Samurai
warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the
final blow was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the
future, where my evil is law! Now the fool seeks to return to the past,
and undo the future that is Aku!”
What is the plot of Samurai Jack?
What is the setting of the show?
Who are the main characters?
What is the plot of Samurai Jack?
What is the setting of the show?
Who are the main characters?
Episode II: The Samurai Called Jack
1. Watch the first segment.
2. Make a list of as many nouns & verbs as
you can.
1. In your groups, make a list of all the nouns &
verbs you wrote down or remember.
2. One person from each group will have 30
seconds to write as many words as they can
on the board.
Did you write down any of the
following words?
• previously
• machine guns
• to slash/cut (with a
sword)
• to crash
• slang
• to make s/o's day
• gutter
• hub
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residential
industrial
a joint
stinky
miserable
to be in charge
to hook s/o up with sth
to knock (on a door)
to stare at s/o or sth
Now, use all of this vocabulary to give a
summary of what happened in this segment.
1. How many of this group’s slang words are
actually used today?
2. Do you know what they mean?
1. Watch the rest of the show.
2. Be able to retell what happens, using as
many details as you can.
3. Think about which verb tense(s) you will
use to retell the story.
Can you identify which variety of English
each dog is speaking, based on his accent
and/or choice of vocabulary?
Sir Dreyfuss Alexander
(chief of excavation)
Angus McDuffy
(artifact aficionado)
Sir Colin Bartholomew Montgomery Rothchild III
(“Rothie,” for short)
How do the dogs want Jack to help them,
and why?
What is the Vadaquians’ story?
• What do they want from Aku?
• What conditions does Aku give them?
Put the following words in the context
of the story:
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to cut off sth
to be out of one's mind
disintegrate
henchmen
mortal/immortal
to ruthlessly plunder
resources
to do as one sees fit
galaxy
scads of vulturous criminals
mindless stooges
questionable mercenaries
proposal
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pitiable
to dig up
topsy-turvy
to bark
a living fossil
fester
infect
archeologist
ancestors
stifling
ruins
to implement these atrocities
drones
• For homework, write a story about what happens in this episode.
• You can use either present or past tenses—but whichever you chose
to use, be consistent.
• Can you predict what will happen next?