Thursday, May 15, 2014

Comprehensive Exam Outline 2014

What Should I Study for the Comprehensive Examination?

     I.     VOCABULARY   Basic Word List
                                        Units 1 to 50     

    II.     SPELLING        Lists 1 – 25

   III.     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

   IV.     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

Sunday, March 30, 2014

What Should I Study for the Second Trimester Examination?



I.          Vocabulary
Unit 23 through Unit 40 inclusive
Definitions, synonyms, and the word parts from the first trimester

II.         Spelling           Lists 14 – 22

III.        Literature

            A.         The Romantic Period
            B.         Lives of the poets and authors
            C.         Quotations from all works of literature on this list
D.         Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
E.         William Blake
“The Lamb”
“The Tyger”
F.         William Wordsworth
“The World Is Too Much with Us”
“Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
G.        Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”
H.         George Gordon, Lord Byron
                        “She Walks in Beauty”
I.          Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Ozymandias”
“Ode to the West Wind”
J.         John Keats
“When I Have Fears”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
K.         The Victorian Period
L.         Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam, Lyric # 7
“Ulysses”
M.        Robert Browning
“Porphyria’s Lover
“My Last Duchess”
N.         Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”
O.        Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
P.         George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

Complete 2 out of 4 literature essays for the written section
The English III second trimester exam is scheduled for Tuesday, April 15th from 8:35 AM to 10:05 AM. It              
is the first test on Tuesday, April 15, 2014.

Thursday, March 6, 2014