English II Final Exam Study Guide 2011-2012
Parts of the Exam / Number of Questions / Points per question / Total Points(200) / % of test
(100)
Part I: Quotation Identification / 40 / 1 / 40 / 20
Part II: Multiple Choice / 35 / 2 / 70 / 35
Part III: Grammar / 40 / 0.5 / 20 / 10
Part IV: Writing Conventions / 20 / 1 / 20 / 10
Part V: Essay / 1 / 50 / 50 / 25
Details of the Exam:
See the chart on the back for a list of all the works covered on the exam and where to find them. The emphasis is on works from second semester.
Part I: Quotation Identification
You will match the quotations to the correct source. A few may ask for character identification, but the majority will be matched only to the story title. You will also need to identify quotations from your book of choice (memoir).
Part II: Multiple Choice
Questions on all the stories testing reading comprehension and quotation analysis.
Part III: Grammar (study A Pocket Style Manual chapters listed below, and practice sheets)
§ Parallelism (Ch. 3)
§ Identifying subjects and predicates (Ch. 10)
§ Subject-verb agreement (Ch. 10)
§ Pronoun-antecedent agreement (Ch. 12)
§ Fragments (Ch. 14)
§ Run-ons (Ch. 15)
§ Colons & Semicolons (Ch. 18)
§ Dialogue: punctuation, capitalization (Ch. 20; also see creative writing packet)
Works Covered on the Honors English II Final Exam 2011
Part IV: Writing Conventions (study A Pocket Style Manual chapters listed below, power point presentations on website, and handouts)
§ Quotation sandwiches (Ch. 31)
§ MLA in-text citations (Ch. 32)
§ MLA works cited (Ch. 32)
§ Formal writing (Ch. 9)
§ How to write titles (Ch. 20b and 23c)
Part V: Essay
§ Prompt will be given in advance
§ You may bring an outline of 75 words, the text, and your Pocket Style Manual
What to study:
Handouts, study guides, notes, quizzes, A Pocket Style Manual.
Works Covered on the English II Final Exam 2012
Unit / Title / Author / Genre / Country / Time / Locationsummer / Dawn / Elie Wiesel / Novel / Hungary/Romania/France / 20th century / book
1st semester / Things Fall Apart / Chinua Achebe / Novel / Nigeria / 20th century / book
The Odyssey / Homer / Epic Poem / Greece / 8th century BCE / book
Book of Choice / This is Paradise! / Hyok Kang / Memoir / N. Korea/S. Korea / 21st century / book
Red Azalea / Anchee Min / Memoir / China/USA / 20th century / book
First They Killed My Father / Loung Ung / Memoir / Cambodia/USA / 21st century / book
Blessed by Thunder / Flor Fernandez Barrios / Memoir / Cuba/USA / 20th century / book
The Red Fog / Lilija Zarina / Memoir / Latvia/Germany / 21st century / book
Revenge and Justice / Conversation: Blumenfeld / Laura Blumenfeld / Interview / USA / 21st century / Handout; link on website
“The Shoes” / Nassar Ibrahim / Short story / Palestine / 21st century / Onlinehttp://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article.php?lab=IbrahimShoes
“The Black Sheep” / Italo Calvino / Short story / Cuba/Italy / 20th century / Reading the World p. 193-195
“The Guest” / Albert Camus / Short Story / Algeria/France / 20th century / World Masterpieces
p. 1232-1246
“The Last Judgment” / Karel Capek / Short story / Czechoslovakia / 20th Century / Reading the World p. 205-210
“The Saboteur” / Ha Jin / Short story / China/USA / 20th century / Reading the World p. 495-507
The Inferno (excerpts) / Dante Alighieri / Epic poem / Florence, Italy / 14th century / World Masterpieces p. 665-671
“Hanging in Chad” from This American Life / Ira Glass / Radio feature / USA / 21st century / Listen to in class http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=363
Power / Macbeth / William Shakespeare / Play / England / 17th century / book
The Prince (excerpts) / Niccolo Machiavelli / Political treatise / Florence, Italy / 16th century / handout
War / All Quiet on the Western Front / Erich Maria Remarque / Novel / Germany / 20th century / book
“In the Shadow of War” / Ben Okri / Short Story / Nigeria/England / 20th century / Reading the World p. 289-294
“Loyalties” / Adewale Maja-Pearce / Short Story / Nigeria/England / 20th century / Reading the World p. 295-298
Search for Meaning / Siddhartha / Hermann Hesse / Novel / Germany / 20th century / book
Scent of Green Papaya / Anh Hung Tran / Film / Vietnam / 20th century / film