Exam Review

9 Academic Exam Review

I.  Literary Terms, Poetic Devices, and Dramatic Conventions (20 Points)

Vignette

Personification

Imagery

Synesthesia

Oxymoron

Malapropism

Soliloquy

Aside

Concealment

Sonnet

Couplet

Prose

Blank Verse

Fable

Satire

Allegory

Propaganda

Euphemism

Syntax

Diction

II.        Formal Paper – All thesis paper rules apply!  (60 points)

Be familiar with the works listed below.  You should know the characters, the plot, and the themes of each work.

·         The House on Mango Street

·         Animal Farm

·         Hedda Gabler

·         A Doll House

·         Romeo and Juliet

·         Whale Rider

·         Rabbit-Proof Fence

III.       Informal Writing Prompt (20 Points)

Review the characters you have met during the second semester of 9 Academic English.  Think about what motivates each of them, how they each act in certain situations, how they treat others, etc.  This section has something do with the personalities of the characters from the following works:

·         Hedda Gabler

·         A Doll’s House

·         The House on Mango Street

·         Rabbit-Proof Fence

·         Whale Rider

Review PowerPoint presentations, handouts, old tests and quizzes, and essays/log entries.  All will help refresh your memory about the works studied the second semester of the 9 Honors Course.  The terms listed on the previous page are all terms found on the PowerPoint presentations for Romeo and Juliet, The House on Mango Street, and Animal Farm. 

Animal Farm

Please review the calendar you received in class.  The calendar provides you with all of the reading due dates for Animal Farm.  If  you do not have your calendar with you, please note the due dates listed below:

Chapters 1-3 for Wednesday,May 23
Chapters 4&5 for Friday, May 25
Chapters 6 &7 for Tuesday, May29
Chapter 8& 9 for Thursday, May 31
Chapter 10 for Monday, June 1

Objective End Test:  Tuesday, June 5

Thesis Paper - Due Tuesday, May 22

THESIS PAPER REQUIREMENTS

Length: 

3-4  typed pages (double-spaced, 1”  margins, 12 Font, Times New Roman, MLA Heading)

Type of Thesis Paper: 

Comparison/Contrast – Decide what topic you would like to use for your comparison/contrast thesis paper.  Quotes (at least 2 per work) and specific examples from the works are to be used to support every point you are making.

Choose at least three out of the four works to use in the paper:

Hedda Gabler  (Norway) or A Doll's House

Whale Rider (New Zealand)

Romeo and Juliet (Women of the Middle Ages in England)

The House on Mango Street (Latino women in America)

Choose one of the topics below to use as for your thesis paper:

1.            Who is the most mature teenage girl – Paikea, Juliet, or Esperanza? 

Compare the maturity of the young female characters in Whale Rider, Romeo and Juliet, and House on Mango Street and then compare their behavior with the behavior of teenage girls today. 

2.            Who has it worse by the way they are treated by men in their lives – Hedda, Paikea, or Esperanza’s friends on Mango Street? 

Compare the treatment of women by the men in their lives by using Hedda Gabler, Whale Rider, Romeo and Juliet, and The House on Mango Street and compare these relationships to the relationships we see in today’s society.

3.            Which teens have hardest teen issues to deal with in their lives – Romeo and Juliet, Esperanza and her friends, or Paikea and Hemi? 

Compare the issues (peer pressure, parental pressure, teenage romance, etc.) teens face in Romeo and Juliet, The House on Mango Street, and Whale Rider to the issues of today’s teens.

               

4.            Which leading male figurehead is put under the tough societal conditions and has handled it as gracefully as possible – George Tesman, Koro, or Father Capulet and Father Montague?

Compare the behavior/role of the men in charge of the household in Hedda Gabler, Whale Rider, and Romeo and Juliet, and compare them to men in today’s society. 

 

I.  Create the Thesis Statement

II. Create the Organization Outline for the body of the paper

III. Create a Works Cited Page

Using your noodletools account, create your works cited page.  You must use the noodletools account via High Point Regional. 

IV. Write the Rough Draft

This is not to be just a summary of each work.  You are to defend your thesis statement with a balance of summary, examples, quotes, and commentary.  I suggest you write the paper first and then add the quotes later to help defend what you have said. Remember:  Two quotes per work.

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V. Peer Evaluation

VI. Revise, edit, and develop...

VII.  Final Draft submitted to turnitin.com by 12PM on Tuesday, May 22.

The final draft is worth 55 points:  25 Points for Content & 20 Points for Conventions.