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