GEORGIA MILESTONE REVIEW ASSIGNMENT
Issue Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Due Date: Monday, May 1, 2017
THIS OPTIONAL REVIEW ASSIGNMENT WILL REPLACE THE STUDENT’S LOWEST TEST SCORE
Student Name:______Class Period:______
You will need access to the internet to complete this assignment. If you do not have access at home, you will have enough time to use the media center before/after school or during your IF time. TO RECEIVE CREDIT FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT, YOU MUST HAVE THE NEXT PORTION COMPLETED.
Authorization of student completing assignment without assistance from others.
I verify that ______(student’s name) completed this assignment without assistance from other students.
Parent signature and date (if done at home): ______
OR
Media specialist’s signature and date (if done at school) ______
Instructions for completing the review assignment:
1. Go to www.doe.k12.ga.us.
2. Click on the tab labeled Learning & Curriculum
3. Scroll down and click on Georgia Milestones Assessment System
4. Scroll down on the right side of the page. and click on Georgia Milestones EOC Study/Resource Guide
5. Scroll down and click on Ninth Grade Literature EOC Study/Resource Guide
IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS! Please read carefully to ensure you earn credit for your work.
1. You must complete this assignment in your own handwriting on your own notebook paper. If your assignment is TYPED, you will EARN NO CREDIT. The point of this assignment is not to prove that you can cut and paste text from the DOE website—it is to review literary terms in preparation for the Milestone.
2. Late OR incomplete assignments will EARN NO CREDIT.
3. You must NUMBER and LABEL each response EXACTLY as it appears below to receive credit.
4. You MUST HAVE A SIGNATURE below (Dr. Graham in media center OR a parent signature) to earn any credit.
5. You MAY write definitions in your own words, but definitions MUST be complete and include all important information.
Authorization of student completion of assignment without assistance from others.
I verify that ______(student’s name) completed this assignment without assistance from other students.
Parent Signature (if completed at home)______Date______
OR
Media Specialist (if completed at school)______Date______
GEORGIA MILESTONE REVIEW ASSIGNMENT
I AM AWARE THAT ALL OF THESE AREAS ARE REVIEWED IN MY LITERATURE TEXTBOOK IN THE LANGUAGE HANDBOOK ON PAGES 993-1039.
OVERVIEW
A. Overview of Test Item Types (page 6)
1. Define selected-response item
2. Define technology-enhance item
3. Define a constructed response
4. Define extended constructed response
READING—LITERARY
B. Types of Literary Texts (page 27)
1. Define fiction
2. Define drama
3. Define poetry
C. Fiction (page 27)
1. Define genre
2. Define character development (characterization)
3. Define direct characterization
4. Define indirect characterization
5. Define setting
6. Define plot
7. Define time
8. Define conflict
9. List the five types of conflict
10. Define point of view
11. Copy the chart provided for Point of View onto your own paper
12. Define perspective
13. Define tone
14. Define mood
15. Copy the chart of Tone Words onto your own paper
16. Define theme
17. Define imagery
18. Define symbolism
19. Define tragedy
20. Define comedy
D. Drama (page 31)
1. Define dramatic conventions
2. Define dramatic irony
3. Define dialogue
4. Define monologue
5. Define political drama
6. Define modern drama
7. Define Theater of the Absurd
E. Poetry (page 32)
1. Define rhyme
2. Copy the Rhyme Chart onto your own paper
3. Define rhyme scheme
4. Define fixed form
5. Define free form
6. Define blank verse
7. Define narrative poem
8. Define ballad
9. Define lyric poetry
10. Define sonnet
F. Literary Elements and Devices (page 34)
1. Define author’s purpose
2. Define irony
3. Define situational irony
4. Define satire
5. Define understatement
6. Define figurative language
7. Define simile
8. Define metaphor
9. Define allegory
10. Define personification
11. Define hyperbole
12. Define idiom
13. Define connotation
READING—INFORMATIONAL
G. Nonfiction (page 42)
1. Define informational text
2. Define augmentation
3. Define literary nonfiction
4. Define implicit
5. Define explicit
6. Define theme
7. Define author’s purpose
8. Define rhetoric
9. Define fact
10. Define opinion
WRITING—ARGUMENTATIVE AND INFORMATIVE
H. Key Ideas (page 49)
1. Define audience
2. Define organization
3. Define parallelism
4. Define paraphrasing
5. Define plagiarism
6. Define repetition
7. Define claim