Academic Final Review

Here is a link to the Academic Final Review Sheet for Semester 2

Study Guide

PRE-AP Final Review (edited)

Here is the final review for PRE-AP

STARK 8^th Grade  2016 Pre-AP Language Arts Review – Semester II Final Exam

• Bring two #2 pencils, sharpened – Scantron format

Imagery/Descriptive writing/Voice/Literary Terms

• Know/understand/ be able to apply:  vivid verbs, descriptive adjectives, and figurative language as applied to imagery.
• Know mood, tone, connotation, and voice and how that applies to writing.
• Know: personification, inference, foreshadowing, irony, characterization, metaphor, symbol and be able to apply terms to examples
• Poetry analysis and annotation terms:  Stanza, traditional form, free verse, rhyme, rhythm 

Persuasion

• Terms: counterargument, appeal to fear, persuade, appeal to  pity, support, ethical appeal, argument, loaded terms, claim, bandwagon appeal, pathos, logos
• Recognize TYPES of support:  examples, facts, quotes from experts, statistics

Rhetoric/Speeches

• Logos and Pathos-be able to identify examples of each from speeches and handouts we used in class.  What characterizes each type of rhetoric?
• Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech – look at themes, symbolism, repetition, and diction.  Review the questions we discussed and the paired text writing.
• Notes, comparisons/contrasts with various forms of rhetoric and writing
• King’s style of writing; review his use of repetition, diction, allusion, metaphor-what is his purpose?  How and why does he use these elements?

Animal Farm

• Symbolism—what each of the characters represents in the novel—
• Persuasion and rhetoric as it applies to Animal Farm

NIGHT/Diary of Anne Frank HOLOCAUST Vocabulary/TIMELINE/Themes – Review handouts

• Important Quotes- Make a list of the quotes we highlighted and be able to identify speaker, situation, and importance.
• All handouts given over Night.  Study the main ideas and know what the focus was from each handout.
• Themes / symbols / plot discussed in class.  Be able to identify the different camps Wiesel traveled to, what happened at each camp, and who freed him in the end. 
• Literary elements as applied to the novel (themes, symbolism, metaphors).  Be able to identify these and support with evidence.
• Elie Wiesel’s life and struggles-focus on how his faith changes.
• All class notes and discussion topics from book club groups-be able to connect common themes/characters seen in other Holocaust literature.
• All Holocaust/WWII/Hitler notes and background information
• Review your ANNE FRANK scene summaries

Grammar

• Parts of speech – review in writer’s notebook – know what each part of speech does/modifies
• Dialogue
• Commas
• Apostrophes
• Run –ons, Fragments, Sentence combining

ARCHETYPES

• The Traitor
• The Outcast
• The Fanatic
• The Evil Genius
• The Charmer

LATIN ROOTS – sets 3 and 4 Matching for the Roots – review below

• Oste                            
• Phon                            
• Photo                           
• Nat                              
• Mem                           
• Ambi                           
• Migr                            
• Multi                           
• Hypo                           
• Mega   
• Dys
• Vers/Vert

There are three poems on the final to analyze.  Here are two of them for you to annotate to prepare.  And no you may not use your annotated poems during the final.           

POEM Selection ONE

1     He was a big man, says the size of his shoes
       on a pile of broken dishes by the house;
       a tall man too, says the length of the bed
       in an upstairs room; and a good, God-fearing man,
5     says the Bible with a broken back
       on the floor below the window, dusty with sun;
       but not a man for farming, say the fields
       cluttered with boulders and the leaky barn.
       A woman lived with him, says the bedroom wall
10   papered with lilacs and the kitchen shelves
       covered with oilcloth, and they had a child,
       says the sandbox made from a tractor tire.
       Money was scarce, say the jars of plum preserves
       and canned tomatoes sealed in the cellar hole.
15   And the winters cold, say the rags in the window frames.
       It was lonely here, says the narrow country road.
       Something went wrong, says the empty house
       in the weed-choked yard. Stones in the fields
       say he was not a farmer; the still-sealed jars
20   in the cellar say she left in a nervous haste.
       And the child? Its toys are strewn in the yard
       like branches after a storm-a rubber cow,
       a rusty tractor with a broken plow,
       a doll in overalls. Something went wrong, they say.

POEM Selection TWO:  Look at your Holocaust Poetry Packet and review each selection as well as the poem below.

Again the night. Again the grim sky closes
circling like a vulture over the dead silence.
Like a crouching beast over the camp

the moon sets, pale as a corpse.

And like a shield cast to the ground in battle
blue Orion is lost among the stars.
The crematoria's eyes glint. Then the clatter
Of motors in the dark. The loaded cars.

Scalding and stifling. Slumber like a stone.
Breath is choked out. The throat is split and red.
Only a heavy boot on the breast-bone
Cracks through the silence of three million dead.

Night, endless night. And no light on the land.
Drowsiness stuns the eye and numbs the brow.
Like God’s judgment on the corpse of the earth,

fog descends over Birkenau. 

9th Grade Summer Reading Options

Stratford HS

GRADE LEVEL

Choose ONE of the following to read over the summer:

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

The Alchemist by Michael Scott

PRE AP

Choose ONE of the following to read over the summer:

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Isaac’s Storm by Eric Larson

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

Memorial HS

Pre-AP
The Joy Luck Club-Amy Tan                             

The Glass Castle-Jeannette Walls                  

A Separate Peace-John Knowles                      

Zorro-Isabel Allende
Black Hawk Down-Mark Bowden

The Hot Zone-Richard Preston

A Long Way Gone-Ishmael Beah

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers-Mary Roach


Academic:
Any title by Stephanie Meyer                                                           
Isaac’s Storm-Erik Larson

A Northern Light-Jennifer Donnelly                                                
The Joy Luck Club-Amy Tan

Skellig-David Almond                                                                       
The Glass Castle-Jeannette Walls

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes-Chris Crutcher                                   
Zorro-Isabel Allende

Al Capone Does My Shirts-Gennifer Choldenko                              
Ender’s Game-Orson Scott Card

Silent to the Bone-E.L. Konigsburg                                       
Any of the titles in The Secret of the Immortal Nicholas Flammel series by  Michael Scott

Chinese Cinderella-Yen Mah                                               

Inexcusable-Chris Lynch                                                                       

Go Ask Alice-Anonymous                                                                  
 A Separate Peace-John Knowles

Specials-Scott Westerfield                                                                   
The Hot Zone-Richard Preston

Any title by Nicholas Sparks                                                 
A Great and Terrible Beauty-Libba Bray

13 Reasons Why-Jay Asher                                                      
Blackhawk Down-Mark Bowden

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies-Seth Graham-Smith                   
A Long Way Gone-Ishmael

              

8th Grade ELA (Pre-AP) - May 16 - May 20

Pre-AP Annoucements

UPCOMING ANNOUNCEMENTS!
*Chapter 1-4 Quiz - Tuesday, May 17th. 
* Photo Project due Tuesday, May 17th. 

* Night & Holocaust Background Exam - Tuesday, May 24th

Monday,  May 16

• Watch Oprah & Wiesel Interview

Homework: Study for Exam

Tuesday, May 17

• Chapter 1-4 Quiz
• Check Quiz
• Start Chap 5b- Active Listening

Homework: grammar p163-172

Wednesday, May 18

• Check exam
• Finish Chapter 5

Thursday, May 19

• Read Chap 6

Friday, May 20

• Finish Book - Chap 7-9
• Check Grammar p163-174

Homework: Finish Study Guide Questions

8th Grade ELA (Academic) - May 16 - May 20

Academic Annoucements

UPCOMING ANNOUNCEMENTS!
*Holocaust & Anne Frank Unit Exam - Tuesday, May 17th. 
* Photo Project due Thursday, May 19th

Monday,  May 16

• Watch Oprah & Wiesel Interview

Homework: Study for Exam

Tuesday, May 17

• Anne Frank & Holocaust Background Exam 

Homework: grammar p163-172

Wednesday, May 18

• Check exam
• Read Chapter 5

Thursday, May 19

• Read Chap 6

Friday, May 20

• Finish Book - Chap 7-9
• Check Grammar p163-172 

8th Grade ELA (Academic) - May 9 - May 13

Academic Annoucements

UPCOMING ANNOUNCEMENTS!
*Holocaust & Anne Frank Unit Exam - Tuesday, May 17th. 

Monday,  May 9

• Night Chapter 1
• Discuss Chapt 1

Homework: 

Tuesday, May 10

• Night Chap 2 & 3 (due Friday, mostly in class)

Homework: Theme Worksheet

Wednesday, May 11

• STAAR TEST

Thursday, May 12

• STAAR TEST

Friday, May 13

• Chapter 4 Night
• Grammar p163-172 (due Friday 5/20)

Annotation Check - Beg of next week.

8th Grade ELA (Pre-AP) - May 9 - May 13

Pre-AP Annoucements

UPCOMING ANNOUNCEMENTS!


Monday,  May 9

• Night Chapter 1
• Discuss Chapt 1

Homework: Chapter 1 Study Guide Qs

Tuesday, May 10

• Night Chap 2 & 3 (due Friday)

Homework: Chapter 2-3 Study Guide Qs

Wednesday, May 11

• STAAR TEST

Thursday, May 12

• STAAR TEST

Friday, May 13

• Chapter 4 Night
• Grammar p163-174 (due Friday 5/20)
Annotation Check - Beg of next week.

Homework: Chapter 4 Study Guide Qs

8th Grade ELA (Pre-AP) - May 2 - May 6

Pre-AP Annoucements

UPCOMING ANNOUNCEMENTS!


Monday,  May 2

• Finish Anne Frank Act 1
• Grammar p 143-152 (due Friday)
• Vocab Worksheet (due Monday)

Tuesday, May 3

• Discuss Themes
• Introduce Photo Project (Tuesday, May 17)
• Updated Step 1 - Use this to access the photo NOT what is on worksheet as the website changed since it was printed. 
• Step 1: Find 1 online photo
  1. Go to www.ushmm.org
  2. Click on “Menu”  (upper left corner).
  3. Scroll down, click on the “Research and collections.”
  4. Scroll down, click on “photographs” link.
  5. In the search box at the top of the page: type the word “Jews” first, and then type in key words to sift through thousands of photos (So for example-  Jews swimming, Jews birthday party, Jews family beach, Jews picnic, Jews vacation, etc….)
  
  

Wednesday, May 4

• EOC Math Exam

Thursday, May 5

• Anne Frank Act 2

Friday, May 6

• Finish Act 2
• Anne Frank Documentary 
• Check Grammar

8th Grade ELA (Academic) - May 2 - May 6

Academic Annoucements

UPCOMING ANNOUNCEMENTS!
*Holocaust & Anne Frank Unit Exam - Tuesday, May 17th. 


Monday,  May 2

• Finish Anne Frank Act 1
• Grammar p 143-150 (due Friday)
• Vocab Worksheet (due Monday)

Tuesday, May 3

• Discuss Themes
• Introduce Photo Project (Thursday, May 19)
• Updated Step 1 - Use these directions for STEP 1 as website changed since printed worksheet with directions. 
• Step 1: Find 1 online photo
  1. Go to www.ushmm.org
  2. Click on “Menu”  (upper left corner).
  3. Scroll down, click on the “Research and collections.”
  4. Scroll down, click on “photographs” link.
  5. In the search box at the top of the page: type the word “Jews” first, and then type in key words to sift through thousands of photos (So for example-  Jews swimming, Jews birthday party, Jews family beach, Jews picnic, Jews vacation, etc….)

Wednesday, May 4

• EOC Math Exam

Thursday, May 5

• Anne Frank Act 2

Friday, May 6

• Finish Anne Frank Act 2
• Anne Frank Documentary 
• Check Grammar