Final Exam Review 2018: Mrs. Janik s 1 st, 2 nd, and 3 rd Period English Classes NOTE: On May 29 for 1 st period and May 30 for 2 nd and 3 rd periods, return your Holt Literature textbook that I issued to you. Please bring a PRINTED EXAM REVIEW WITH YOU TO BOTH PARTS of THE EXAM to use during your exam time. Special tutorial times: for the essay section May 25 at 7:30; for the other exam sections May 29 at 7:30. The exam will consist of these types of questions and sections: 1. ONE ESSAY question worth 30 points to be written during class time on MAY 25: a comparison and contrast essay about these three works and skills: o Study Night by Elie Wiesel (a memoir). o Study To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (a novel). o Study Ernst Schnabel s short biographical work called A Tragedy Revealed: A Heroine s Last Days (a copy of textbook is only available in my classroom; plan a time to study in C207). o Study your Membean words and make a list without definitions to use during the essay portion and a separate list to use during the other sections of the exam. PRINT the copies from your actual Membean Dashboard when signed in to Membean so that your official Membean account page shows o Apply archetypes in your essay; I will not give you a list of these to use during the exam so you will need to know all archetypes well. o Write one well-placed literary reference to connect with an idea in your essay by making a connection from one of your Reader s Log books from this semester. o Write at least one complex sentence that begins with the introductory dependent clause and place a comma after the dependent clause. Begin some sentences with a present participial phrase and/or gerund phrase (-ing verb forms) with proper comma usage for sentence variety. Also write one compound sentence that contains a conjunctive adverb and proper punctuation around that adverb. 2. Short-answer questions 3. Select response questions The short-answer and select response questions will be about Night, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Tragedy Revealed: A Heroine s Last Days, the triangle of life (victim, perpetrator, bystander, rescuer), literary terms, dramatic terms including elements of comedy and tragedy, 1
Membean words, eight parts of speech, the Holocaust, propaganda and persuasive techniques, text evidence and appeals to authority, MLA documentation including Works Cited, and persuasive and expository/analytic writing. 4. One analysis of a lengthy passage from To Kill a Mockingbird (the literary terms LISTED IN THIS REVIEW that we have studied all year see annotations and the literary term list in your copy of TKaM and Night) and apply and label examples of those terms. 5. One dramatic analysis (the dramatic terms we studied and how to apply and then label a passage that has examples of those dramatic terms) 6. Two passages to label/analyze according to propaganda and persuasive techniques (an advertisement AND excerpt from Atticus s speech/closing remarks to the jury in TKaM) 7. One archetypes passage analysis for applying and labeling archetypes 8. One article analysis (students will read an article, mark the thesis/claim of the article, and mark the major quotations that support that thesis statement/claim and/or calls to action) 9. One revision of commentary (using the revision strategies we have worked on all year) NOTE: The short answer questions, passage analyses, article analysis, select response questions, and vocabulary sections (numbers 2-9 listed above) will be taken during each class period s regularly scheduled exam time on May 29 for 1 st AND May 30 for 2 nd and 3 rd periods. Writing and Terms (for short-answer questions, analyses of passages, and the essay) Be able to recognize and use these terms and conventions and to demonstrate your knowledge of the revision strategies as well as your understanding of some of the literary terms. persuasive writing (see your Essay Plan Sheet, rubric, and revision sheets) Persuasive Appeals (ethos, pathos, and logos) as well as all types of propaganda and persuasive techniques (that you applied in your project) the opposition statement/refutation (being able to know the major opposition to your opinion and to be able to refute it by crafting the best complex sentence) revision strategies (used throughout the year and especially the ones for this semester) plagiarism (how to recognize when it exists in a piece of writing) thesis statement/claim (recognize a well written thesis/be able to write an original claim) Modern Language Association (MLA): the proper documentation of a quotation according to MLA style and other MLA rules including an MLA heading and header, in-text citations, and Works Cited (how these relate, when they are used correctly, and when correct documentation and punctuation are used) 2
verb tenses: which tenses to use when writing about fiction (present and present perfect tenses) and nonfiction (past tense) five ways to write quotations: blended/embedded quotation, paraphrase of a quotation, paraphrase of a quotation with a few key words quoted, signal phrase in front of a quotation quoted verbatim, and quotation quoted verbatim without a signal phrase grammar to apply: parallel syntactical structure; use of commas with introductory clauses and phrases; nominative and objective case pronouns; use of correct use of verbs including present and present perfect; sentence types including simple, compound, and complex (be able to vary your sentence types in your writing) composing/revising strategies including these: o not having plagiarism, o quoting an author verbatim, o composing a strong thesis statement/claim, o recognizing the importance of the first sentence (lead) of an essay and of the last sentence, o using proper signal phrases, o varying sentence beginnings, o not writing words that are considered weak in essays: am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been these word are called the be verbs; also these weak words: you, your, it, thing, kid, very, really, good, bad, nice, kind, stuff, said, there, never, forever, always, and if, could, would, should, might, without in analytic writing Literary Terms and Devices: (for short answer questions, multiple choice, analyses sections, and the essay section): Be able to recognize and apply the proper use of these literary devices and elements. Study the figurative language and other literary devices that you have marked as annotations in Night and To Kill a Mockingbird, study A Tragedy Revealed: A Heroine s Last Days, as well as the notes you have taken in class, the Glossary of Literary Terms on pages R102-R112, and Glossary of Reading and Informational Terms on pages R113-R117 of your Holt McDougal s Literature: Grade 8. The terms are grouped according to similarities, but each term is considered a separate term. cause and effect; comparison and contrast; genre; setting (time and place); ad populum fallacy author s purpose (inform, entertain, and//or persuade) and perspective (how the author views his or her characters, their plights, and the outcomes), AND tone, style, and mood foreshadowing, flashback, chronological ordering, flash forward 3
conflict (both internal and external) meaning a major problem in the story as well as person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. society, person vs. nature, person vs. technology, etc. AND resolution (if applying any of these, an explanation for that text is necessary) digression, diction, dialogue, monologue, colloquial expression understatement (litotes), euphemism, hyperbole (overstatement), paradox novel (NOTE: a novel is FICTION!); memoir (nonfiction), biography (nonfiction) allusion (literary, biblical, mythological, historical, political, artistic, cinematic, musical, etc.) character analysis: static (the character doesn t change) and dynamic (the character undergoes major change) exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, suspense, epiphany literary devices that are types of figurative language: simile, metaphor, personification, symbolism, and idiomatic expressions first person narration/first person narrative point of view irony (verbal, situational, and dramatic) cross-reference theme (stated and implied) An implied theme is not written or stated in the text it is instead a theme that is written by the reader; the implied theme is an idea that is very connected to the text. A stated theme is written/stated in the text and then inferred and/or applied numerous times throughout the text. subjective (opinion) and objective (fact) points of view aphorism, epigraph, anaphora, epithet, motif, anaphora juxtaposition, paradox, parallel syntactical structure dramatic terms: o antagonist and protagonist, comedy, soliloquy and aside, monologue, tragedy, tragic hero, tragic flaw, hubris and hamartia (tragic flaw of the tragic hero), catharsis, and denouement o historical plays (genre pertaining to Shakespearean plays); historical fiction o parts of a play (acts, scenes, stage directions, etc.) o genres of tragedy and comedy types of propaganda/persuasive techniques (See the notes you applied for your propaganda project including pathos, ethos, and logos; you need to know all types I will not list them on the exam). Holocaust (means widespread destruction) and major historical aspects we discussed all archetypes (See the notes/outline from last semester that we continued to use and apply to works this semester; I will not give you a list on the exam). 4
Literature: memoir, short biography, drama, novel, and works from the literature textbooks Know the plots, characters, actions, settings, themes, significant quotations, and significant ideas of each work of literature and consider archetypes that relate to the stories as well. Be able to recognize insightful commentary for various quotations and themes (for the short-answer questions, multiple choice, essay, and analyses sections; the first THREE works listed below will also need to be compared/contrasted in the 30-point essay section). Consider concepts, genre, author s craft, and authors purposes for the three texts for the exam essay. Think of ways to compare and contrast the major aspects of the three larger works and consider ways to compare and contrast ideas to connect aspects of one of your choice books you have read for your Reader s Log. Night by Elie Wiesel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ALSO FROM a previous edition of an adopted textbook: A Tragedy Revealed: A Heroine s Last Days by Ernst Schnabel (418-36) Arrange a time to study this text in C207 since the copies of this textbook are only in my room, and you don t have a copy in your Holt textbook (and the online versions are inaccurate and printed without the author s permission). Motifs/scenes from Shakespearean plays we discussed as well as element of comedy and tragedy and patterns in his plays Vocabulary Words from Membean: Use/apply at least 10 of your Membean word list in the short answer sections, analysis sections, and essay section. Make a screen shot of your word list from your Membean Dashboard in advance and print a copy in order to have a list of your words to use during the exam sections. You cannot include the definitions. Grammar: Know the eight parts of speech and examples for those and know how to label those eight parts; use gerunds and present participles (-ing verb forms) to begin your sentences, use dependent clauses at the beginning of sentences in your complex sentences, and know how to write a compound sentence connected by a conjunctive adverb with correct punctuation. 5