FINAL EXAMINATION STUDY GUIDE

I. Purpose

The purpose of this study guide is to help you organize your study for the final examination. The number of questions on each topic (Section II of this paper) should help you know how much time to spend studying each topic. The information on what to study for each topic (Section III of this paper) should help you know how to study for each topic.

II. Topics covered and other examination information

The examination will consist of 100 multiple choice/fill in the blank questions and one essay question.

A. Multiple choice/fill in the blank questions

Your answers to the multiple-choice/fill in the blank questions will account for 75% of your grade. All multiple-choice/fill in the blank answers will carry the same weight for grading purposes. The subject matter of the questions is broken down as follows:
Topic
Number of Questions on Topic
Literary terms
50
“To Kill A Mockingbird”
4
“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
5
“I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings”
5
“Romeo and Juliet”
8
Grammar
24
Poetic and Literary terms
9
Research and research papers
7

Note that the “Number of Questions” column in the above table refers to more than 100 questions. That is because many of the questions involve both literary terms as well as specific works of literature, and therefore get counted twice in the above table.

B. Essay question

The essay will account for 25 per cent of the grade. It will be closed book. It will be one paragraph in length – an eight-sentence mini-paragraph. It will ask you to apply one or more literary terms or concepts to one of the stories we have read.

1. Essay structure (proper mini-paragraph form – topic sentence, support sentences, proof sentences, and concluding sentence) – 50%
2. Essay content (knowledge of literary term or concept; application of literary term or content to text) – 50%

III. How to study for each topic

A. Literary terms.

Know the definitions of each term, and you will have a much more enjoyable exam! The literary terms and their definitions are on these documents in your notebook:

Poetry study guide
Poetry assignments, rubrics, and samples
Plot development frame
Foreshadowing worksheet
Writing rubric
Table of poetic and literary terms

You may wish to develop your own graphic organizer in order to learn these terms and to help others quiz you on them.

B. The stories and poetry.

Go back over the titles listed above – especially the stories – so that you will have a good idea of what happens in them.

C. Grammar

Know the information on the following areas:

Noun frame
Pronoun frame
Verb frame
Other five parts of speech frame
Sentence frame
Sentence structure

To go over examples of this information, go through and rework some of the exercises in Writer’s Inc. Skill book as needed:

Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Pronouns
Prepositions
Sorting parts of speech
Conjunctions
Interjections
Parts of speech review
Fragments and run-ons

D. Research and Research Papers

Know the information in the following:

How to make source cards and note cards
How to make basic citations for a works cited page
How to make parenthetical references in a research paper
Topic sentences
Mini-paragraph overview and exercise
How to answer a single-paragraph essay question
Plagiarism frame

E. Essay Question

Know the information in the following:

How to write a topic sentence for a one-paragraph answer to an essay question
Mini-paragraph diagram
The eight-sentence Mini-paragraph


You will also need a good understanding of the five stories we’ve read as well as the literary terms (see above section on literary terms).

Poem on my success and failures

I am about to tell you
about my success and failures
of this school year. This year
I have been doing pretty good
this first trimester because
I really didn't have any friends
so I was quiet and worried about
my work.Then during the second
trimester i started to get friends
and wasn't focused on my work like
I used to be.So my grades were steadily
declining this year but I stayed out
of trouble with all the teachers. The year
is almost over grades is almost in I don't
what my grades looking like but I guess we'll
have to wait and see.

Essay on No Child Left Behind Act

I think the no child left behind act has effected the educational system because kids are being in grades they don't belong in. I think it has effected because if a child does poorly academically then they should be retained in that grade. I think the no child left behind act is also a good thing for the educational system to because its giving the children a chance to get promoted to the next grade.I think the no child left behind act was a way to save money cause they couldn't afford to retain children.The no child left behind act has been going on for a few years and has effected allot of people.The no child left behind act benefits children to move up the educational system and not get held back.The no child left behind act has been very popular to allot of people and to the educational system cause some people use this policy as an advantage for them. the no child left behind act helps children overall and has effected the educational system because it keeps moving children forward when some of them should in the the grade they did poorly academically in.

Epic Poem

Once upon a time a young woman was kidnapped by three men. They locked her in a dungeon were she was held slave. She was starved, and beaten. I was walking past and I heard a woman scream for help.
I was listening to see where the scream was coming from. Then I saw the undergroind dungeon.The three men were standing outside the dungeon also guarding her.so Igot her attention and she knew I wanted to help her so what I did was I threw a rock over there heads and it got there attention. So I tied a rope and threw it down the dungeon but it was to sahort so I pulled it back up
and made it longer.but the men came back. So I knew I had to do something if this woman wanted to be free. So to distract them I scream and ran to hide. They left there spots and came running down the forrest. So I came out and threw the rope down and it was long enough she grabbed it and I pulled her up with all my might and got her to safety and we ran off to live happily ever after.

Editorial essay response on police beatings

I think what happened with the shooters and police officers was a complete tragedy. They call Philadelphia the city of brotherly love but how can that be when our own law enforcers are beating people because of there own frustration. The suspects who were involved in a shooting was pursued and caught by Philadelphia narcotics officers and was beaten severely. Three heads was stomped in they were thrown into squad cars neck first by our own police officers. I think all who was involved should suffer consequences. There were eight police officers at the scene and there were four suspects but one fled on foot avoiding being pursued by police.
Four of the eight were fired and the other four did not receive any kinds of discipline at this time. Including a sergeant was demoted from his position for not stopping his officers during the beating. I think this will be going on for a very long time until this whole investigation is resolved.
I think what happened those officers did was wrong and unnecessary and somebody should pay the price for there actions including the suspects involved in the shooting.

Hi, My name is Sean Bullock am 14 years old and I attend New Media Tech Charter school.
I am in the ninth grade and my favorite classes are Spanish and History. I started school when I
Five years old at Emlen Elementary School and then I graduated and then attended Theodore
Roosevelt middle school. I live with both of my parents and my older sister who is eighteen
Years old. I was born on July 4th ,1993 at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.
When I was in the 4th grade I played for my school basketball team but did not play or start.
Also in the 4th grade I played in the bowling league at Adams lane bowling alley and I was the
Leader of my team . I’ve made honor roll from kindergarden to fourth grade which is when I got
my first F. I’ve had plenty of bad days caused by injuries and bad decisions I made. I had stitches
in my leg and I had surgery on my eye do to blindness. I have two best friends best who I’ve
two best that I’ve known for 10 years. I been to plenty of places outside of Pennsylvania such as
North Carolina South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida multiple times. I have done a lot
things in my life such as play with fire and almost burn my house down, I’ve been caught with
a BB gun in school and was arrested and also a lot of other things. I like to read books on my
Spare time to increase my reading level and use the computer. I listen to all kinds of music.
I also like play cards. I’ve told you everything myself that I can think of, Bye

Ballad-(The worst day of my life)

Once upon a time I was walking down the street
with me and my friends and this was the worst day of life
because one of my friends was throwing sticks over my head
and all of a sudden he throws a stick and all of a sudden
it comes down low towards my face and hits me in the eye!!!
And while I'm living the worst day of my life my eye is
torn in half and I am crying and in pain. And this is the worst
day of my life I'm being rushed to the hospital while my eye is
swollen.While I'm living the worst day of life I'm sitting in the
hospital waiting for my eye to get checked out I can't see out of
it. Also while i went to go see the Doctor she sad my eye will be
better in no time.Unfortunately it didn't my eye actually got worst
because of what happened on the worst day of my life and because
that it resulted in temporary blindness and surgery to stitch my eye back up.