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English 9
January 2017
2nd Quarter Exam: Topics to Review
Exam Dates: Monday, January 30
Tuesday, January 31
1st period
6th period
Most of the exam will be done using a Scantron form to mark your answers.
I.
Vocabulary: Lessons 3, 4, and 5
1. Focus will be on Lesson 5
Review the Lesson 5 packet, including the exercises on the back page.
Be prepared to:
 Identify the definitions of the five roots and the ten vocabulary words.
 Identify the parts of speech of the ten vocabulary words.
 Tell the related forms of the words. (For example, you may be asked to
provide the adjective form of “polyphony.”)
 Use any of the ten vocabulary words in an illustrative sentence.
2. Vocabulary Lessons 3 and 4
Review:
The Lesson packets,
The Fortnight Tests
Vocab. Lesson 3 Review in Google Classroom
Vocab. Lessons 3-4 Review in Google Classroom
Be prepared to:
 Identify the definitions of the ten roots and the twenty vocabulary words.
 Identify the parts of speech of the twenty vocabulary words.
II.
Grammar: Parts of Speech
Review
Your notes and practice exercises
“Review and New” practice
NoRedInk.com
Be prepared to identify the part of speech of a word in a sentence.
1. NOUN: person, place, thing, or idea
2. PRONOUNS: words that replace nouns
Personal pronouns: I, me, mine, you, yours, he, she, it, him, her, his, hers,
we, us, ours, they, them, theirs
Other pronouns: who, whose, that, which, one, someone, anybody, etc.
3. ADJECTIVES: words that modify or describe nouns or pronouns
Which one? that, those, these, this
How many? sixteen, some, several
What kind? gray, ridiculous, favorite, muddy, tall, orthodox
4. VERB: words that express action or state of being
Action verbs: smile, eat, shout, build, study
Linking and state-of-being verbs: is, was, were, seem, smell, taste, etc.
5. ADVERBS: words that describe/modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs
When: later, tomorrow, now, early
Where: there, outside, here
How: gladly, excitedly, lightly, painfully
To what extent: not, barely, very, enormously
III.
Night
Be prepared to answer multiple choice questions about the major people, places, and
events in the book. You will also need to know the author’s name (Elie Wiesel).
Review:
IV.
Chapter reading quizzes
Night section in Fortnight Test #1
Your Night essay
Greek Mythology, Homer, and The Odyssey
Be prepared to answer multiple choice questions about any of the people, gods, events,
or books identified in
 Greek mythology research “quiz”
 Greek mythology quiz
 The Greek mythology, Homer, and The Odyssey page on Fortnight
Test #3
V.
Independent Reading
Be prepared to
Give title and author’s name of your independent reading book(s)
for this quarter
Write a paragraph about your book in response to a prompt similar
to the I.R. Responses in Google Classroom. I will expect you to be
able to write about the WHOLE book (all the way to the end). I
will expect you to be able to avoid common errors in
capitalization, punctuation, italicization, etc.