Final Exam Review

Happy Friday!

Today you should spend the class reviewing the topics for the final exam on Thursday, 6/15.

You may take your notebooks to study for the final. (I will give you the grades when I return)

-Drama Terms
-Nonfiction Terms
-Fiction Terms
-Look over short story and poetry terms- Both lists contain terms that have been applied all year (ex: Author's purpose, plot structure, etc.)
-Review the following:  Mockingbird, Julius Caesar, and Romeo and Juliet
-There will also be cold reads on the exam.


The final will be posted in two parts on Skyward,  The exam is 110 questions.

Punctuation

Comma Lesson

REVIEW THE FOLLOWING POWERPOINT
COMMAS:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ppt/commas.pps

SEMICOLONS:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ppt/semi2.pps

COLON:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ppt/colons.pps

Tomorrow we will listen to and read "There Will Come Soft Rains" in class

We are going to compare Bradbury's writing techniques.

There Will Come Soft Rains

"There Will Come Soft Rains"

There Will Come Soft Rains

Compare and contrast Bradbury's writing.  How is this story similar to 451?

Goal: Students will utilize assigned short story terms and apply them in context
Students will practice interpreting context clues and taking notes
Students will understand the ideas of the future as told by Ray Bradbury.

-Students will discuss the Bradbury and his contributions to Science Fiction
Students will review their notes and discuss the context
Students will discuss the possibility of the story being realistic to our current society
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Assessment)
Students/ Teacher will discuss the story:  The structure; The similarities and differences in today's society.

Students will review Critical Thinking (text) questions after the text

 

R11.B.1: Understand components within and between text

R11.B.2: Standard - 1.2.10.D: Analyze inferences and draw conclusions, citing textual support, based on an author’s explicit assumptions and beliefs about a subject.

Understand fiction appropriate to grade level

R11.A.2: Understand nonfiction appropriate to grade level.

-Analyze inferences and draw conclusions based on text

-Analyze the effectiveness of figurative language

Academic Content Standards:
15.1.11A- Write with a distinctive focus.
1.5.11B- Write using well-developed content appropriate for the topic.
1.5.11C- Write with controlled organization.