Semester 2 Final will cover ALL literature from this year. Look at each novel's page to review themes, characters, conflict, etc. Essay questions will draw connections between teh stories.
FIRST SEMESTER
Tuesdays With Morrie
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Survival in Auschwitz
In My Hands
Brave New World
SECOND SEMESTER
Macbeth
Frankenstein
The Tempest
On Tuesday 5-29-12 we will have a final Poetry Assessment. There will be two poems to read and ten questions to answer - using textual evidence from the poems.
On Monday 6-4-12 we will have our cumulative review essay ... you will demonstrate your understanding of themes/concepts from ALL of the TEXTS we read...summer reading, semester 1, and semester 2.
TOPICS will range from a variety of themes that are seen in all texts...they MAY include:
What does it mean to be human?
1. Man vs Man, Man vs Self, Man vs Society conflicts
2. Dynamic and Static/Flat and Round Characters
3. Characters learning a lesson from their actions
4. Life is a series of choices...how does a character's choice impact their life or others?
5. How do characters reflect the Christian Gentlemen ESLR?
6. Characters "Playing God"
7. Characters wanting to "fit in" ... reasons why isolated/lonely/different
8. A character's fatal flaw
9. Role of Nature ... nature as an unnamed character
10. Information a reader may learn from reading a work of FACT or FICTION
11. Techniques the author uses to make a story entertaining for the target audience
Grammar - multiple choice questions cover topics we addressed this year ... approx 20-30 total
LOOK at the individual book pages of the class website for more review of each individual book
Poetry