Download Final Exam Review—this is only a list of what will be on the exam

Final Exam Review—this is only a list of what will be on the exam (with a few details). If there
are things on this list that you are unsure about, it is your responsibility to reacquaint yourself
with those things.
Poems—
My Papa’s Waltz
Jump
Mother to Son
Daddy
One Evening
Those Winter Sundays
A Noiseless and Patient Spider
Puritan poems
Grammar—basically everything we’ve done all year—
Adjectives—describe nouns
Adverbs—describe everything else
Subjects—what does the action in a sentence
Verbs—the action (or a “be” verb) in a sentence
Direct objects—what has the action done to it in a sentence
Complex sentences—independent + dependent clause
Compound sentences—independent + independent clause; how to punctuate properly
Apostrophes—show possession; contractions
Pet peeves—their, they’re, there, to, too, etc.
Object/subject pronouns—he, I, she are all subject pronouns; him, me, her are all object pronouns
Passive/Active sentences—if the subject does the verb, it’s an active sentence
Indirect and direct articles
Prepositional phrases (prepositions are anything a squirrel can do to a tree)
Thesis statement—know what it is and how it works
Steps of the research process—ask a question, formulate a thesis, gather sources, write paper,
document all research properly
Readings
Slave narratives
Settler/Indian narratives
Owl Creek
Rainy Mountain
Self-Reliance, Nature--Emerson
“Civil Disobedience”--Thoreau
The Scarlet Letter—Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Raisin in the Sun—Lorraine Hansberry
“The Minister’s Black Veil”—Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The Devil and Tom Walker”—Washington Irving
A Dream Deferred—Langston Hughes
The Crucible—Arthur Miller
Of Mice and Men—John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby—F. Scott Fitzgerald
McCandless, Petit, Tillman--articles