Final Exam Test Guide

English 110 Final Exam Guide
Ms. Rossetti/June 2009

G1: Friday, June 19 (7:30-9:00)
W3: Tuesday, June 23 (9:15-10:45)

Bring something to do in case you finish early (study for another exam, read a book or magazine, etc); talking during the exam time is prohibited, and you cannot leave until the exam period is over.

Format
Multiple Choice, Matching, True or False
You will be required to respond to one essay prompt. There will be several choices and you will select and write about one of them.

Exam Topics

• Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

Here are some interactive quizzes that I found online.

http://www.shakespearehelp.com/romeo/quizzes/rj_act1quiz.htm
http://www.shakespearehelp.com/romeo/quizzes/rj_act2quiz.htm
http://www.shakespearehelp.com/romeo/quizzes/rj_act3quiz.htm
http://www.shakespearehelp.com/romeo/quizzes/rj_act4quiz.htm
http://www.shakespearehelp.com/romeo/quizzes/rj_act5quiz.htm

• Night by Elie Wiesel
  
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  
  

Homework

Language

Dialect: dialect, a distinctive variety of a language, spoken by members of an identifiable regional group, nation, or social class. Dialects differ from one another in pronunciation, vocabulary, and (often) in grammar.

Standard English: The variety of English that is generally acknowledged as the model for the speech and writing of educated speakers.

Jargon: The specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group.

Slang: A kind of language occurring chiefly in casual and playful speech, made up typically of short-lived coinages and figures of speech that are deliberately used in place of standard terms for added raciness, humor, irreverence, or other effect.


*ASSIGNMENT*
Go to: Harvard Survey of North American Dialects (hosted at University of Wisconsin)

http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html

a. Back in 2001, the linguistics department at Harvard University began a survey about North American dialects. I completed the survey while they were still seeking data, but they have since posted the results and turned over the hosting of their project to the University of Wisconsin. You don’t have to read through all 122 survey items, but click through some of them and compare your usage to the survey results.
b. Provide a significant comment about the survey or discuss with other students with several shorter comments to this post.

R&J Scene Project

Romeo and Juliet Scene Project Evaluation to embed - Upload a doc

Read this doc on Scribd: Romeo and Juliet Scene Project Evaluation to embed

Third Quarter Book Report

Third Quarter Book Report

Click the following link to download the instructions and book choices for the third quarter book report: http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?u=1083475. The project type is the completion of a packet, which will be distributed in class when we return from February vacation.

Due Date: March 30 or 31
Counts As: Test
Late Work: -10 per day with a max. of -30 before grade reverts to a 0.

Midterm Schedule

Midterm Schedule

Monday, January 19: No School, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Tuesday, January 20: G1 (7:30-9:00), W1 (9:15-10:45)
Wednesday, January 21: G2 (7:30-9:00), W2 (9:15-10:45)
Thursday, January 22: G3 (7:30-9:00), W3 (9:15-10:45)
Friday, January 23: G4 (7:30-9:00), W4 (9:15-10:45)

Midterm Facts

1. You cannot be exempt from midterms, only finals.
2. Midterms count as 10% of your final grade for the class for the year. They are their own grade and not averaged into a quarterly grade. They will appear on your report card in their own column.
3. You must stay in the classroom until the end of the exam period; therefore, bring study materials for your next exam, a book or magazine, etc.
4. Cheating on an exam will result in a 0; 10% of your grade for the class will be a 0. This includes cheating for yourself AND helping others cheat.
5. If you are exempt from a 1/2 year class, you are not required to come to school during that period. However, buses do not make extra trips; if you come to school during a period for which you have no exam, you must go to the media center until your exam begins/the second exam is over.
6. There is a 15 minute break between exams; you are not required to remain in your exam room at this time.

Thursday/Friday

In class on Thursday/Friday

• Short Story Test
• When finished, begin the homework:
  

1. Read through the list of Shakespearean Vocabulary Words (handout). Write sentences or a conversation using the words. You may use more than one word per sentence. Highlight or underline the words.
2. Complete the three Discussion Questions on the William Shakespeare--Life of Drama Notes Handout (page 3 + 4). Answer questions in several sentences each.

• When everyone is finished, continue William Shakespeare: A Life of Drama.

HOMEWORK: Finish 1 & 2 above

Short Story Test

The Short Story Test has been rescheduled to either Wednesday, 1/7 or Thursday, 1/8.

• The stories that appear on the test are listed in the left side bar.
• Know the "Elements of the Short Story;" you have a notes handout, and we discussed them while analyzing the stories. Things like point of view, the types of point of view, setting, conflict, style, theme, climax, denouement, etc.
  
• See the notes you took on various elements such as foreshadowing, mood, suspense, irony, dramatic irony, verbal irony, situational irony, etc.
• You do need to know who wrote the stories, but you don't need to know the exact year each story was written.
• Look over your study guides! The better you filled them out as we initially completed them, the more helpful they will be when studying. Hold on to these until after the midterm.
  

Test Postponement

Due to the snow, the Short Story Test, originally scheduled for 12/22, 23 will be postponed to the SECOND class after Winter Break (Wednesday 1/7 or Thursday 1/8).

For white day classes, the Subjects-Predicates Quiz will occur on Tuesday, 12/23 as a make up date from last Friday.

See the blog over vacation for additional details about the test.

Monday, 12/15, W3

W3: English 110--In Class
Monday, December 15

· Pass in grammar homework (7-11)
· Finish reading the rest of “Memento Mori”
· Write about one page: What you think happened in “Memento Mori”—explain the story as you understood it; we will discuss the story next class
· Finish reading book report book, if needed (hopefully not)


HOMEWORK: Book Report #2

Homework for the Week of December 8

Monday, December 8 (G1)
Due: Vocab Exercises 4 pp. 35-39 ex.1.22, 1.23, 1.24, & 1.27
Assigned: Study Vocab 4 Qz; Light Blue Grammar Book pp. 39-45 ex. 1, 4, 5

Tuesday, December 9 (W3)
Due: Vocab Exercises 4 pp. 35-39 ex.1.22, 1.23, 1.24, & 1.27
Assigned: Study Vocab 4 Qz; Light Blue Grammar Book pp. 39-45 ex. 1, 4, 5

Wednesday, December 10 (G1)
Due: Grammar Book pp. 39-45 ex. 1, 4, 5
In Class: Vocab 4 Quiz
Assigned: Finish reading “Memento Mori” and Grammar Book pp. 46-54 ex. 7-11

Thursday, December 11 (W3)
Due: Grammar Book pp. 39-45 ex. 1, 4, 5
In Class: Vocab 4 Quiz
Assigned: Finish reading “Memento Mori” and Grammar Book pp. 46-54 ex. 7-11

Friday, December 12 (G1)
Due: Finish reading “Memento Mori” and Grammar Book pp. 46-54 ex. 7-11
Assigned: BOOK REPORT #2 (scroll down for Book Report post); Grammar Book pp. __-__ ex.

Monday, December 15 (W3)
Due: Finish reading “Memento Mori” and Grammar Book pp. 46-54 ex. 7-11
Assigned: BOOK REPORT #2 (scroll down for Book Report post); Grammar Book pp. __-__ ex.

Upcoming Due Dates

There are numerous assignments that have the potential to greatly affect your grade prior to Winter Break. Enter the following due dates in your agenda or write them in your notebook to refer to.

Test-weighted Assignments
Book Report #2: Page to Screen ::: G, Tues., 12/16 or W, Wed., 12/17
Must be printed as well as sent to Turnitin.com. Papers submitted after the class begins will be assessed with a 10 point lateness deduction per day. Follow all directions; find them on a blog below, where you can also download the project template, save it to your computer, and fill it in as you go along.

Short Story Test::: G, Thurs., 12/18 or W, Fri., 12/19
Test is on the "Elements of the Short Story" (notes handed out in September) and the 9 stories that we read or out of class:

*"The Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
*"Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl
*"Thus I Refute Beelzy" by John Collier
*"The Chaser" by John Collier
*"The Cask of Amontillado" by E.A. Poe
*"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
*"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber
*"The Cop and the Anthem" by O. Henry
*"Memento Mori" by Jonathan Nolan

Quiz-weighted Assignments
Vocabulary 4 Quiz ::: G, Wednesday, 10/10 or W, Thursday, 12/11

"Memento Mori"

"Memento Mori"

"Memento Mori" by Jonathan Nolan is the last short story we will read before the test. It's a cool story, but you have to pay attention as you're reading, or you'll be very, very confused. We'll be discussing it in class later this week. You can access the story on the web at http://www.impulsenine.com/homepage/pages/shortstories/memento_mori.htm.

Point of view is an important feature of the style of this story. Remember:

First Person: "I did this..."

Second Person: "You did this..."

Third Person: "He did this..." or "They did this..."

Third Person can be

Omniscient: The narrator knows what all characters are thinking.

Limited: The narrator only knows what one person is thinking.

Dramatic/Objective: The narrator doesn't know what anyone's thinking; all that is known is due to actions, speech, and observations.

Book Report #2: Page to Screen

Counts As: Test

Due Dates: (G) Tuesday, 12/16, (W) Wednesday, 12/17

Note: Just to refresh, I'm going to post the documents of some assignments here to make it easier for the both of us. In this case, you already have the format all set up for you report, and you just have to enter your information. Also, you won't accidentally miss a part of the project. Lastly, you know where to go to find it, no looking through mounds of papers or asking for a new one.

**Download Book Report Template** Click the title link (or "Download Book...") to download and save the book report template to your computer. This way, you just have to type your own information directly into the already-formatted document.

***The document says that it is Book Report #3, but that is an error; you can just switch the 3 to a 2. Also, you can remove my examples from the document before printing it to save some trees.***

Submit to: You will be required to submit your paper to Turnitin.com. An assignment has already been created on the site, and you can submit your book report any time between now and the due date.

You must also print this out. You do not need to submit the title page to Turnitin; just staple it to the front of your printed report.

Book Report #2: Page to Screen

Book Report #2: Page to Screen English 110

Due Date: (G) Tuesday, 12/16, (W) Wednesday, 12/17

Book Approval Date: (G) Wednesday, 11/12, (W) Thursday, 11/13

Counts as: Test grade

Type of Book: You are going to choose a novel that has been made into a movie from a provided list. The novel must have come before the film. Some potential topics are listed; for a complete list, go to http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/. Make sure it is a novel and not a short story, etc.

*Make sure you can get access to a movie to confirm that it’s not out of print or a random tv movie.*

Project: Read a book that was made into a movie, watch the movie, and complete a project (details will be available soon).

Which book/film combinations can I NOT do?
• Don’t read a book that you’ve used for another book report/school project at any point
• Can read the book of a movie you’ve already seen
• No elementary/middle school books
• No Harry Potter, Holes, etc.
• Certain book/film adaptations may require a parental sign off form

Potential Titles
About a Boy / Nick Hornby
Anywhere but Here / Mona Simpson
Basketball Diaries / Jim Carroll
Big Fish / Daniel Wallace
Bourne Identity/Supremacy/Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum
Bridget Jones’ Diary / Helen Fielding
Clancy, Tom books: i.e. Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of All Fears
daVinci Code, The / Dan Brown
Dick, Phillip K. books: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner, Next
Emma / Jane Austen
Eragon / Christopher Paolini
Everything Is Illuminated / Jonathan Safran Foer
Fan, The / Peter Abrahams
Fever Pitch / Nick Hornby
Flags of Our Fathers / James Bradley
Forest Gump / Winston Groom
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang / Joyce Carol Oates
Freaky Friday / Mary Rodgers
Freedom Writers Diary, The / Erin Gruwell
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream / Buzz Bissinger
Ghost World / Daniel Clowes
Girl, Interrupted / Susanna Kaysen
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The / Douglas Adams
I Am Legend / Richard Matheson
Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles / Anthony Swofford
K-PAX: A Novel / Gene Brewer
King, Stephen books
Legally Blonde / Amanda Brown
Mommie Dearest / Cristina Crawford
Natural , The / Bernard Malamud
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest / Ken Kesey
Patterson, James books
Pay It Forward / Catherine Ryan Hyde
Perfect Storm / Sebastian Junger
Princess Diaries, The / Meg Cabot
Pursuit of Happyness, The / Chris Gardner
Queen Bees & Wannabes (Mean Girls) / Rosalind Wiseman
Riding in Cars With Boys / Beverly D'Onofrio
Seabiscuit: An American Legend / Laura Hillenbrand
Sparks, Nicholas: The Notebook, A Walk to Remember
Speak / Laurie Halse Anderson
Starship Troopers / Robert A. Heinlein
Stormbreaker / Anthony Horowitz
Time Machine, The / H. G. Wells
Twilight / Stephenie Meyer
Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team (Munich) / George Jonas
War of the Worlds / H. G. Wells
We Were Soldiers Once -- and Young: Ia Drang: The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam (We Were Soldiers) /Harold G. Moore
What's Eating Gilbert Grape? / Peter Hedges
Where the Heart Is / Billie Letts
White Oleander / Janet Fitch
Wonder Boys, The / Michael Chabon

Nouns, Pronouns, and Adjectives Review

To use flash cards to review the parts of speech, go to http://www.studybulb.com/item/1018101230123.

Review the different types of pronouns using the following flash cards: http://www.studybulb.com/item/1011140566909.

Download a review sheet: