End of Year Final Exam Study Guide High School 2014-15
Teacher:Mr. Kiesel
Classes:English III, 1st and 2ndPeriods
Final scheduled for Tuesday, April 28
and Wednesday, April 29 for all 11th grade students
1. The use of proofreading marks and symbols to correct sentence writing and mechanical errors.
2. Recognizing and correcting sentence writing errors; combining sentences to avoid wordiness and to show relationship between ideas.
3. The five steps of the writing process and the appropriate use of graphic organizers to arrange information for various writing purposes.
4. The outline of narrative elements and the plot diagram; recognizing plot elements in a narrative.
5. The outline of poetry terms (spellings and meanings).
6. Vocabulary items from American literature essays and selections studied in class especially the use of context clues to determine meaning and words with multiple meanings.
7. Historical context and characteristics of literary periods, including Arpin, Beginnings, pp. 2ff.; Arpin, American Romanticism, pp. 138ff.; and Arpin, The American Renaissance, pp. 206ff.; Brinnin, A New American Poetry, pp. 342ff.; Arpin, The Rise of Realism, pp. 408ff.; and Leggett and Brinnin, The Moderns, pp. 524ff.
8. Author biography (review biographical essays as well as study guides) and content of selections for
a. Hawthorne, “The Minister’s Black Veil”
b. Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Raven”
c. Melville, selection from Moby-Dick
d. Whitman, “I Hear America Singing” and “Song of Myself 10, 33, 52”
e. Dickinson, “Heart We Will Forget Him”, If you were coming in the fall”, The Soul selects her own Society”, “Success is counted sweetest”, “Because I could not stop for Death”, “I heard a Fly buzz—when I dies”, I”I died for Beauty—but was scarce”;
f. Douglass, “The Battle with Mr. Covey”;
g. Chopin, “A Pair of Silk Stockings”;
h. Twain, “From Life on the Mississippi” and “The Lowest Animal”;
i. Bierce, “An Occurrence at OwlCreekBridge”;
j. Crane, “A Mystery of Heroism”;
k. London, “To Build a Fire”;
l. Cather, “A Wagner Matinee”;
m. Frost, “Design”, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, “Birches”, and “The Death of a Hired Man”;
n. Jeffers, “Shine, Perishing Republic”, “Original Sin”, and “The Purse-Seine”;
o. Fitzgerald, “Winter Dreams”;
p. Steinbeck, “The Leader of the People”;
q. Robinson, “Richard Cory” and “Miniver Cheevy”;
r. Hemingway, “Soldier’s Home”;
s. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
t. Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”;
u. Pound, “The Red Wheelbarrow”
v. Cummings, “what if a much of a which of a wind”
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