Ms. Rathjen

English 91 exam

The exam is 10% as the syllabus and Focus gradebook indicates.  The EOCT is 15% of your semester grade.

Have a good summer.

English 91

Return your textbooks to the bookroom on or before Wednesday, May 25.

English 122 Textbooks

Seniors,

Return  your gray lit. textbooks to the bookroom on or before Wednesday, May 18.

English 91 Exam Review

English 91 Exam Review

 

You may complete this review for an extra daily grade (weighted 2 times).  You must know this information in order to do well on the

exam.

 

1.  List the five relative pronouns that begin adjective clauses.

2.  List the pronouns that begin noun clauses.

3.  List 10 subordinating conjunctions that begin adverb clauses.

4.  List the seven coordinating conjunctions.

5.  List 15 conjunctive adverbs.

6.  Give the genre, author, setting and list the characters of Romeo and Juliet and   Odyssey,

7.  Define: assonance, tone, mood, quatrain, iamb, imagery, concrete poetry, free verse, blank verse, sonnet, onomatopoeia, epithet, synecdoche, antithesis, chiasmus, foil, tragic hero, tragic flaw, epic hero, Homeric simile, sestet, iambic pentameter, tetrameter, stanza, tercet, heroic couplet, dramatic poetry, dramatic irony, internal rhyme.

8. Give an example (give title and author) of epic, novel, short story, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Tell how to correctly write titles in each genre.

9.  Identify:  Benvolio, Penelope, Athena, Tybalt, Ithaca, Verona, Mantua, Trojan Horse, Telemachus, Paris, Mercutio, Polyphemus, Circe.

10.  Write a sentence correctly using a semicolon; a sentence with a colon that joins two independent clauses, and a sentence that correctly connects two independent clauses with a comma.

11. Be able to identify the rhyme scheme of a poem.

12.  List the title, author, genre, characters, setting, themes, and point of view of two of your favorite works this semester.  You will answer an essay question using this information.

 

English 122 Exam Review

English 122 Exam Review

You may complete this review and turn it in by May 18 for an extra homework grade (weighted 4 times).  You must know the answers on this review in order to do well on the final exam.

1. Give the literary period and a major work for each of the following authors:

Tennyson, Swift, Donne, Dickens, Keats, Wordsworth, Yeats, Joyce, Mary and Percy Shelley, Housman, Hardy, Coleridge, James, Thomas, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Byron, Woolf, Bowen, Lessing, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope,

1.  Define:  pathetic fallacy, chiasmus, tone, mood, free verse, blank verse, sprung rhythm, synecdoche, bawdy, stream-of consciousness, onomatopoeia, carpe diem, conceit, villanelle, paradox, simile, parady, mock epic, hyperbole, quatrain, sestet, tercet, tetrameter, three types of irony, three types of sonnets, octave, heroic couplet.
2. List the seven coordinating conjunctions  and tell which punctuation mark is used with these conjunctions.
3. List 15 conjunctive adverbs and tell which punctuation mark is used with these words.
4. Give an example of a fragment, a run0on sentence, and a comma splice.
5. Give an example of an active voice sentence.
6. Give an example of a passive voice sentence.
7. Give three situations in which passive voice is acceptable.

 

 

!22 Reminder: Grade Recovery Opportunity

The Grade Recovery test will  be offered only May 5 or May 4 if you are in an AP exam on May 5.   It cannot replace an essay , a test or quizz that you have not taken, the final exam, or the quizzes after May 5. You will recieve a zero for the test or quiz you are replacing if you have any unauthorized inormation in view or if you have a cell phone during the test.  You will need a # 2 pencil. 

English 91 May 2

English 91

Monday, May 2

1.  Parallel  reading novel  test (5th period).
2. Sixth period will be in science EOCT's amd will take the test Thursday, May 5.
3.  Assign voc. Unit 13-15; unit due May 13; quiz May 16.

Tuesday, Wednesday, May 3,4

1. Parallel reading presentations.

Thursday, Friday, May 5, 6

1.  Parallel reading in class essay.
2. Sixth period choice novel test on Thursday, presentations on Friday.

Monday, Tuesday, May 9, 10

1.  EOCT.

Wednesday, Thursday,  May 11, 12

1.  R & D TIOBE (lit bk).

Friday, May 13

1.  Check unit 13-15 voc . changed to Monday, May 16 because of AP Human Georgraphy exam.
2. R & D TIOBE (lit bk).

Monday, May 16

1.  Unit 13-15 voc quiz ( # 2 pencil).

2. R & D TIOBE (lit bk).

Tuesday, Wednesday, May 17,18

1.  R & D TIOBE (lit bk).

Thursday, Friday, Monday, May 19, 20, 23

1. Exam review (lit bk).

Monday, May 23

1.  Fifth period exam ( # 2 pencil).

Wednesday, May 25

1.  Sixth period exam ( # 2 pencil).

Independent Reading

Independent Reading Assignment

Read the following lit. pp. and take the three required quizzes.  If you miss any or all of the quizzes, a make up quiz weighted three times must be taken in class on May 16 or by appointment before the final exam.

May 3

Read lit. pp. 1152-1153, 1188-1190,1192-1197.

May 4

1.  Read lit. pp. 1199-1203.
2. Read lit. pp. 1219-1234.

May 5

1.  Read lit. pp. 1219-1234.

May 6

1.  Quiz on Wolfe and Conrad.
2. Read lit. pp. 1235-1241.

May 9

1.  Read lit. pp.1245-1261
2. Read lit. pp. 1262-1268.

May 10

1.  Read lit. pp. 1297-1305.
2. Quiz on Lawrence, Greene, and Bowen

May 11

1. Read lit. pp. 1327-1336.

 

May 12

1. Read lit. pp. 1341-1347.

May 13

1.  Read lit. pp. 1435-1442.
2. Quiz on Lessing, Gordimer, and Lively.

May 16                 Makeup quiz on all short stories.

English 122 Last Calendar

English 122 (Last  English calendar of your high school career)

Monday, April 25

1.  Begin Modern and Contemporary Periods (lit bk).
2. Assign Independent Reading assignment.

Tuesday, April 26

1. Unit 15 voc. Quiz ( # 2 pencil).
2. Assign unit 13-15 voc unit; quiz May 9.
3. R & D  Modern and Contemptorary (lit bk).

Wednesday, April 27

1.  Yearbook Day.

Thursday, April 28

1.  R & D Modern and Contemporary poetry (lit bk).

Friday, April 29

1.  Online essay due by midnight.
2. R & D poetry (# 2 pencil).

Monday, May 2

1.  Choice essay due ATBOTP.
2. R & D poetry (lit bk).
3. Independent reading (lit bk).

Tuesday, May 3

1. Independent reading (lit bk).

Wednesday, May 4

1.  Grade Recovery declaration.  If you are absent, you must let my  know by email if you are taking the test to replace a test or quiz grade and which grade the test will replace.
2. Independent reading (lit bk).

 

Thursday, May 5

1.  Lit. terms test, either for grade recovery or for exam review credit (# 2 pencil).
2. Independent reading (lit bk).

Friday, May 6

1.  Quiz on Wolfe and Conrad.
2. Independent reading.

Monday, May 9

1.  Independent reading (lit bk).
2. Voc. 13-15 quiz (# 2 pencil)

Tuesday, May 10

1.  Second Independent Reading quiz.
2. Exam review.

Wednesday, May 11

1.  Independent reading (lit bk).

Thursday, May 12

1.  Independent reading (lit bk).

 

Friday, May 13

1.  Quiz on Lessing, Gordimer, Lively.
2. Exam review (lit bk).

Monday, May 16

1.  Independent reading makeup quiz.
2. Exam review.
3. All makeup work must be completed by 3:00.

 

Tuesday, May 17

1.  Exam review.

Wednesday, May 18

Exam ( # 2 pencil).

 

 

English 122 Grade Recovery

English 122 Grade Recovery Opportunity

There will be an optional grade recovery test that can replace any low test or quiz grade on May 5.  The test will cover literary terms and be given during class. If you have an AP exam during the class period, you may make arrangements to take the test one day early.  These are the only  two times this optional test will be available. You must tell me if you are taking advantage of this opportunity and which test or quiz you are going to replace by TBOTP May 4.  If you choose not to replace a grade, you will take the test  as part of your exam review packet, but it will only be a completion grade. The test will include definitions and examples of the following terms:  tone, mood, juxtaposition, irony(3 types), resolution, exposition, genre,  allusion, antithesis, paradox, motif, hyperbole,  theme, metonymy, onomatopoeia, personification, connotation, denotation, diction, protagonist, pun,  allegory,  prose,  dialect,  alliteration, naïve narrator, symbol, pun, , frame story, synecdoche, zeugma, iamb, pentameter, foot, sonnet (3 types), chiasmus,allegory, Byronic hero, aside, monologue, soliloquy, tragic hero, quatrain, blank verse, pastoral poetry,satire, carpe diem, rhyme scheme, comic relief, conceit, couplet, mock epic, epitaph, free verse, heroic couplet,volta, novella, ode, parody, tragic flaw, sprung rhythm,  stream of consciousness, villanelle.