What to Study for the Trimester Exam

What to Study for the Trimester Exam

                           Vocabulary

A.      Chapter III, “Building Vocabulary Through Central Ideas,” bliss – vanity,  pp. 46-106 

B.      Chapter IV, “Words Derived From Greek,” acrophobia – peritonitis,

 pp. 107-145

C.      Chapter V, “Words Derived From Latin,” Latin Prefixes 1 – 30 (a – vice) and Lessons 1 – 15 only, abrupt – perfidy, pp. 146-176

Definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and word parts (Greek roots and prefixes, Latin roots and prefixes; be sure to study the list of thirty Latin prefixes found at the beginning of Chapter V.)

                             Spelling – Lists 1-13 (see Spelling List page)

                             Grammar and Composition – Elements of Language

A.      Types of Phrases – Chapter 16

B.      Types of Subordinate Clauses – Chapter 17

C.      Complete Sentences, Fragments, and Run-ons – Chapter 17

D.     Types of Sentences According to Structure – Chapter 17

(simple, compound, complex, compound-complex)

Literature     

(Literary periods, literary techniques, authors, genres, quotations, details, details, details . . . )

A.      The Anglo-Saxon Period

B.   Beowulf

C.   The Middle Ages

D.   The Canterbury Tales: “General Prologue,” “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” – Chaucer

E.      The Renaissance

F.      Sonnets 18, 29, 116 – Shakespeare  (Be sure to know the first line of each.)

G.      Macbeth – Shakespeare

H.     “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” – Donne

I.         “Death Be Not Proud” (Holy Sonnet #10) – Donne

J.       “Meditation 17” – Donne

K.      “Of Studies,” – Bacon

L.      “To His Coy Mistress” – Marvell

M.    “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” – Milton

N.      Paradise Lost (excerpt from Book I) – Milton

O.     The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

P.      “A Modest Proposal” – Swift

Full play of Macbeth can be found here . . .

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/full.html

A reading of the General Prologue in Middle English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE0MtENfOMU

Click on the link below to hear a reading of Beowulf in Old English.

Beowulf

Welcome back for your Junior Year!

The Junior Year Spelling List can be found at the top of the page.

What Should I Study for the Comprehensive Examination?

 

VOCABULARY

Chapter III Central Ideas

Chapter IV Words from Greek

Chapter V Words from Latin

Chapter VI Words from Classical Mythology/History

Chapter VII Anglo-Saxon Vocab., Latin Synonyms

Chapter VIII French Words in English

Chapter IX Italian Words in English

Chapter X Spanish Words in English

Definitions/synonyms only

SPELLING Lists 1 – 25

GRAMMAR Chapter 16 The Phrase

Chapter 17 The Clause

(including sentence classified according

to structure: simple, compound,

complex, compound-complex)

Fragments, run-ons, complete

sentences

LITERATURE (Know literary periods, literary techniques, authors,

genres, quotations, details, details, details . . . )

THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD (449 A.D. – 1066 A.D.)

Background essay/notes, pp. 32 – 47

Beowulf, pp. 48 - 79

THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD (1066 A.D. – 1485 A.D.)

Background essay/notes, pp. 104 – 107

Chaucer, “General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, pp. 120 - 145

Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” pp. 153 – 167

THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE (1485 A.D. – 1660 A.D.)

Background essay/notes, pp. 234 – 243

Shakespeare, Biography, pp. 284 – 286

Sonnet 18 (handout)

Sonnet 29, p. 291

Sonnet 116, p. 287

Shakespeare, Macbeth, pp. 302 – 389

Bacon, “Of Studies,” pp. 273 – 276

Donne, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” p. 414 – 415, 418 – 419

Donne, “Death Be Not Proud,” p. 420

Donne, “Meditation 17,” p. 422 – 425

Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress,” pp. 455 – 458

Milton, “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent,” pp. 459 – 462

Milton, from Paradise Lost, pp. 464 – 474

THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1660 A.D. – 1798 A.D.)

Background essay/notes, pp. 492 – 503

Swift, “A Modest Proposal,” pp. 516 – 526

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1798 A.D. – 1832 A.D.)

Background Essay/notes, pp. 650 – 661

Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” pp. 598 – 605

Blake, “The Lamb,” pp. 662 – 663, 665

Blake, “The Tyger,” pp. 666

Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much with Us,” pp. 686 – 688

Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” pp. 691 – 697

Coleridge, “Kubla Khan,” pp. 709 – 713

Byron, “She Walks in Beauty,” pp. 759 – 760, 763 – 764

Shelley, “Ozymandias,” pp. 765 – 769

Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind,” pp. 770 – 772

Keats, “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be,” pp. 780 – 781, 784

Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” pp. 786 – 787

THE VICTORIAN AGE (1832 A.D. – 1901 A.D.)

• British Empire reaches its peak under Queen Victoria; vast empire includes

Scotland, Ireland, and India.

• Middle class comes into its own, feeling a sense of patriotism, propriety, and

responsibility for the world.

• The novel becomes an extremely popular literary form.

Background essay/notes, pp. 804 – 815

Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., “Lyric #7”, pp. 816 – 818

Tennyson, “Ulysses,” pp. 825 – 828

Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover,” pp. 840 – 841, 844 – 847

Browning, “My Last Duchess,” pp. 842 – 843

Arnold, “Dover Beach,” pp. 848 – 851

Hardy, “The Man He Killed,” pp. 868 – 869, 871

Hardy, “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” pp. 872 – 874

Hopkins, “Pied Beauty,” pp. 877 – 879

Housman, “To An Athlete Dying Young,” pp. 887 – 888

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1901 A.D. – 2000 A.D.)

• World War I and World War II

• T.S. Eliot is considered the leading literary poet of this period.

• English literature takes on a very ironic, pessimistic, and sober mood.

Background essay/notes, pp. 908 – 919

Shaw, Pygmalion, pp. 920 – 990

Brooke, “The Soldier,” pp. 1001 - 1002, 1003

Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est,” p. 1004

Sassoon, “Dreamers,” p. 1005 -1007

Huxley, Brave New World

Eliot, “The Hollow Men,” pp. 1072 – 1073, 1076 – 1081

Auden, “Musée des Beaux Arts,” pp. 1142 – 144

Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” p. 1154 – 1155, 1158

Golding, The Lord of the Flies

A Couple of Cool William Golding Videos

Modern British War Poetry

The following is poet Louise Russell's introduction to poems about the effect that battle has had on her husband, David, who was aboard the HMS Sheffield (pictured above) when it was hit and sunk in 1982 (during the Falkans War) by an Exocet missile from Argentine aircraft. Following this intorduction are two poems by Russell. 

Since 1987 when David was medically discharged with PTSD the real David has been missing but appears from time to time which is lovely.  Unfortunately, the David who came back from the Falklands refuses to leave – a bit like Jekyll and Hyde.
I believe there are many “Falklands veterans”  who are also the “forgotten heroes.” I mean the wives, sweethearts, mums, sisters, daughters, sons, brothers and dads of veterans.  There has been a lot of writings by the vets, however, I believe it is just as important for the other side of the coin to be publicised.   In almost the words of Churchill never in the field of human combat has so much been done for so many by so many who are still suffering the fallout of this conflict.I have spoken to many families of Falklands vets and haven't come across one family who have not suffered and are still suffering because of this conflict.

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"The Call of Home"

A river of tears cannot cleanse
The unseen wound which does not heal
There are more than battlefield shells
So many human shells return home
To the family never to be the same
Children once had a dad to turn to
Now he’s an island with a barrier reef
And she searches and searches in disbelief
She knows he’s in there somewhere
But she cannot find the path
She doesn’t know it’s a one way street
It’s his choice if they are ever to meet
In the land of trust where love is all around
When his spirit’s journey is homeward bound
It’s a long road to travel with many pitfalls
But when he stumbles her heart hears his calls
No company for him he must travel alone
But the family’s love is the beacon guiding him home
Home is where the spirit longs to be
Surrounded by love then it can be free

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"Lost"

Yes you are here
But so far away
That you are not near

Your smile that never
Reaches your vacant eyes
I wonder will it ever

A heart turned to stone
Just to survive the
Pain of being alone

I don’t know how
It captured your soul
Always with you now
I will find the key
To unlock your heart
And set you free 
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Click here for more from Falkan War Poems Anthology.

Trimester Exam Review

What to study:

Vocabulary

(Definitions, synonyms, antonyms, word parts)

- Chapter V (Lessons 16 – 30), congratulate – vociferous, pp. 176 – 202

N.B. Start at Lesson 16

- Chapter VI, “Words from Classical Mythology and History,”

Adonis – titanic,pp. 203 – 214

- Chapter VII, “Anglo-Saxon Vocabulary” and “Latin-Derived Synonyms and Near-Synonyms for Anglo-Saxon Words,” aboard – nuptials, pp. 215 – 231

- Chapter VIII, “French Words in English,” au-courant – vis-à-vis,

pp. 232 – 255

Spelling         

- Lists 13 – 22

Literature

The Romantic Period

Lives of the poets and authors

Quotations from all works of literature on this list

Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

William Blake, “The Lamb,” “The Tyger”

William Wordsworth “The World Is Too Much with Us,” “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”

George Gordon, Lord Byron “She Walks in Beauty”

Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ozymandias,” “Ode to the West Wind”

John Keats “When I Have Fears” “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

The Victorian Period

Alfred, Lord Tennyson "In Memoriam, Lyric # 7," “Ulysses”

Robert Browning “Porphyria’s Lover “My Last Duchess”

Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”

Thomas Hardy “The Man He Killed, ” “Ah, Are Your Digging on My Grave?”

Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”

A. E. Housman “To an Athlete Dying Young”

Aldous Huxley Brave New World

 

Brave New World on the Big Screen

If you thought the book was weird, check out the BBC's take on it.
The people are a bit robotic at times, their clothes are a bit , but overall, the creative liberties taken by director Burt Brinckerhoff make things pretty easy to understand.