What to Study for the Trimester Exam
Vocabulary
Spelling – Lists 1-13 (see Spelling List page)
Grammar and Composition – Elements of Language
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
