So, all of you have exams coming up soon. Below I'm going to post some ideas and tips for you to consider as well as in order to review. I'll also be reminding you of a few other deadlines coming up this week.
English I:
Your poetry exam is coming up on Friday/Monday. We covered a lot of different poems in this unit, below are a few that you will be asked some specific questions about:
"in Just -" by ee cummings
"Legal Alien" by Pat Mora
"Back Again Home" by Haki Madhubuti
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost
"Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall
"Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" by Adrienne Rich
"Ode to My Socks" by Pablo Neruda
Don't forget that you'll also be asked about some new poems that you haven't seen before so thinking about your TPCASTT and Color Coding Strucutres will be important to review in order to think about how to break these poems down.
There will also be a lot of literary devices that you'll see on this examination - think especially about the new ones related to poetry (alliteration, consonance, assonance, rhyme, lines, stanzas) as well as the old ones such as imagery, metaphor, simile, denotation, tone, connotation.
Remember to always think about how these authors create meaning within their poems through the use of literary devices.
English III:
You all will be having your examination on Early American Literature on Tuesday. Here are the pieces that will be considered on that examination.
"A Narrative of the Captivity" by Mary Rowlandson
"From the Brief and Interesting Life" by Oluadah Equiano
Native American Mythology - "Coyote Finishes His Work" and "The Sky Tree"
Selected Poems by Phillis Wheatley, especially "On Being Brought from Africa to America"
"Some Verses Upon The Burning of Our House" by Anne Bradstreet
Excerpts from People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
As you work through these pieces you should focus on the main points that we have studied so far this unit especially the ideas of objectivity, subjectivity, and sensationalism. You should also consider the ideas of logos, pathos, and ethos. There will be a mixture of short answers and multiple choice questions. So, you should focus on specific details from the texts as well as the bigger ideas for the short answer questions.
Now, I will be giving you the citation for the textbook tomorrow at the beginning of class - your drafts of the papers will be due on Friday! Please don't forget to follow the formatting that I gave you on the assignment sheet. Remember: Thesis, Point, Counterpoint, Point, Conclusion. Don't structure this like a regular five paragraph essay - you won't get through everything you need to and you'll waste a lot of time and energy.
This was a really long post - I'm going to go and write your exams now!
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