Sunday, June 12, 2011

Final Exam Review

Exam time has come again. Rise and Shine. Rise and Shine.

ELA 20 - Wed. June 22, 2011 at 9am.

Exam breakdown - 90 marks total   = 30% of your final mark
  • 10 matching
  • 10 vocabulary TKAM
  • 8 short answer (45 marks)
  • 1 long answer - 5 paragraph essay - 25 marks
What to bring to the exam?
  • 2 pens (only blue or black) and white out
  • NO IPODS, IPHONES, IPAD, or OTHER MOBILE DEVICES
  • TKAM novel (not allowed into the exam but it needs to be returned before any report card will be received)
What to study?
  • Terms and definitions -devices
  • Essay writing - various types, what makes them distinctive?
  • TKAM vocabulary
  • Themes - 
    Recollections of Childhood
    Recollections of Home and Family
    Wonder and Imagination in Childhood
    Innocence and Experience
    Putting our Memories and Experiences into Perspective
    Looking Back and Looking Forward

  • Novel, play, poetry, short stories and authors studied this term:
    • TKAM - Harper Lee
    • The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
    • Kahlil Gibran - Of Children
    • Ed Reed - Key of the Kingdom
    • Robert Fulghum - The Credo
    • Max Ehrmann - Desiderata
    • Sarah Kay - spoken word poetry
    • The child who walked backward and  The whipping
    • Cats in the cradle and My Hometown
    • "Penny in the Dust"
    • "Back to Wolf Willow"

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