Final Exam review

1. Final Exam review English III Spring 2012

2. Format of Exam • Questions 1-8: Read a passage from a John F. Kennedy speech and answer questions about it. • Implied assumption • Parallelism • Main idea • Point of view • Metaphor • Author bias

3. Format of Exam • Questions 9-14: Read a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson and answer questions about it. • Simile, personification, metaphor, apostrophe (when you address something not alive or dead as if it can hear/answer you) • Tone: comic, lecturing, somber, lofty • Theme • Inference • Point of view

4. Format of Exam • Questions 15-21: Read an exert from a short story by Sherwood Anderson and answer questions about it. • Inference • Mood • Direct and indirect characterization • Theme • 3rd person limited narrator • Predictions

5. Format of exam • Questions 22-33: Vocabulary-Read sentences with vocabulary words underlined and choose the definition of the word based on context clues • Examples: • Philosophers since the time of Plato have pondered the definitions and details of ethics, which are sometimes difficult to state. • A. thought about • B. looked at • C. taken apart • D. peered into • She worked hard on her leadership skills, so being voted student council president was the zenith of her high school achievements. • A. tight spot • B. high point • C. punch line • D. low point

6. Format of exam • Questions 34-39: Grammar-Read the sentences. There may be a mistake in verb tense or pronoun agreement. • Example: • A person who wants to learn how to play guitar must be dedicated because you have to practice every day. • A. A person who wants to learn how to play guitar must be dedicated because he or she has to practice every day. • B. To learn how to play guitar, they have to practice every day and you must be dedicated. • C. People who want to learn how to play guitar must be dedicated because everyday you must practice. • D. Correct as is.

7. Grammar Rule • A person who wants to learn how to play guitar must be dedicated because you have to practice every day. -The subject of the sentence must match the pronoun that replaces it. -A person is singular, so the matching pronoun would be “he or she” What pronoun would you use to replace the nouns in the sentences below? -Rachel walked to the store. -The groceries sat in the car. -Each student must turn in ________ work on time.

8. Format of exam • Example: • I was walking to school when I saw Justin, and I talk with him. • A. Seeing Justin as I walk to school, I talked with him. • B. As I walked to school, I saw Justin, and I talked with him. • C. Walking to school, I see Justin and I talked with him. • D. Correct as is

9. Grammar rule • Verb tense: • I was walking to school when I saw Justin, and I talk with him. • Your tenses MUST match!! • Ways to change this sentences? • She drove to school and _______ (crash) her car. • The students read and ________ (write) every day. • She tried to cook spaghetti for dinner, but she ______ (burn) the pasta.

10. Format of exam • Questions 40-45: Punctuation-There may be a mistake in punctuation. If you find a mistake, choose the answer that corrects the mistake. If there is no mistake, choose Correct as is. • Example: • I will meet you at 17 Johnson Street, Portland Oregon, on March 18, 2012 to discuss your project. How would you correct this sentence?

11. Punctuation rule • When writing an address, you need commas after the street and in between the town and state. • 17 Johnson Street, Portland, Oregon • When writing the date, you need commas after the day of the month. • March 18, 2012

12. Format of exam • Example: • She must have gone to work otherwise she would have taken the dog with her. • How would you punctuate this sentence?

13. Grammar rule • She must have gone to work otherwise she would have taken the dog with her. • The sentence above is a run-on sentence because there are two complete sentences stuck together. • She must have gone to workotherwise she would have taken the dog with her. • If you want to join two sentences together correctly without making two separate sentences, use a semicolon. • She must have gone to work; otherwise,she would have taken the dog with her. • You also need a comma after otherwise because it serves as a transition (however, therefore, consequently, etc)

14. Format of exam • “Have you read “Benjamin Button” by F. Scott Fitzgerald?”, the teacher asked. • How would you correct this sentence?

15. Grammar rule • “Have you read “Benjamin Button” by F. Scott Fitzgerald?”, the teacher asked. • This is an example of a sentence that uses two sets of quotation marks. • If you have two sets, the quotation marks that are inside the first set of quotation marks become single quotations. • “Have you read ‘Benjamin Button’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald?” the teacher asked. • (You also do not need the comma after the end of the quotation)

16. Format of Exam • Example: • The 1920’s was a period of wealth and social change. • What’s wrong with this sentence?

17. Grammar rule • Dates of eras do not need an apostrophe. • Example: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s • The only time you would use an apostrophe would be if you are referring to an item from that time period. • Example: 1920’s fashion, 1950’s automobiles

18. Format of test • Questions 46-50: Read the following paragraph from a draft of a student’s historical research paper. Then, answer the questions that follow. • Based on what you read, be able to figure out what type of research question the paragraph is answering. • Identify main idea • Primary sources • What should be cited within a research paper? (direct quotes; paraphrased statements; cartoons, timelines, pictures, etc that are photocopied and included in the paper) • To document sources, you put the citation at the end of the sentence in parenthesis or you refer to the author or material you use in the sentence.

19. Format of exam • Writing application: • You will have a topic that you will need to respond to in the format of a business letter. Your letter should be at least 3 paragraphs and follow the proper format. • Make sure you edit your letter when you are finished.

20. Business letter format • http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/format.pdf