Download 3rd quarter review

English 9
March/April 2017
3rd Quarter Exam: Topics to Review
Exam Dates: Friday, March 31
Monday, April 1
1st period
6th period
Most of the exam will be done using a Scantron form to mark your answers.
I.
Vocabulary: Lessons 5 and 6
Review:
The Lesson packets,
The Fortnight Tests
Vocab. Lesson 5 Review in Google Classroom
Vocab. Lesson 6 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.
 Identify the related parts of speech of the twenty vocabulary words
II.
Grammar: Parts of Speech and Parts of a Sentence
Review
Your notes and practice exercises
“Review and New” practice
NoRedInk.com
“Practice with Prepositions and Conjunctions” in Google Classroom
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
6. PREPOSITIONS: words that tell the relationship between a noun and another part of the
sentence
Common prepositions: with, of, in, on, under, after, by, over
7. CONJUNCTIONS: words that connect words or parts of a sentence
Coordinating conjunctions: and, but, or, nor, so, for, yet (FANBOYS)
Subordinating conjunctions: because, since, when, etc.
8.
INTERJECTIONS: words of emotion, separated from the rest of the sentence by a comma
9. SUBJECTS AND PREDICATES
III.
The Odyssey
Review
Reading notes, Books 9, 10, 11, 12, 21, 22, 23
Characters and events:
IV.
Odysseus
Penelope
Telemachus
Circe
Tieresias
Calypso
Antinous
Eumaeus
The Lotus Eaters
Polyphemus (the Cyclops)
Poseidon
Scylla
Charybdis
The test of the bow
The secret of the bed
Romeo and Juliet (and Shakespeare’s Life and Theater)
Review:
Shakespeare’s Theater
Shakespeare’s Life
Classroom group work #2, 3 and 4
Stratford
Anne Hathaway
The Globe Theater
Groundlings
Etc.
Montagues and Capulets
Romeo and Juliet
Benvolio and Mercutio
Tybalt
Nurse
Literary Terms: oxymoron, metaphor, pun, monologue, simile