Semester 1 Exam Preparation/Outline
Short Story Unit
 Elements of a story
 Questions based on reading passages.
 Written responses to reading passages.
 Specific texts to review:
o The Things They Carried
o “The Yellow Wallpaper”
o “Sweat”
o “This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”
The Color of Water
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The genre of memoir
Major themes of the story
Characters
o Character development
o Antagonist
o Protagonist
o Static
o Dynamic
Significant events from the story (reading passages)
Vocabulary
Literature Circle Work
 Show knowledge of having read your literature circle novel.
 Questions that you will apply to your individual novel.
 Reading passages from various novels to show literary analysis skills from literature
circle projects.
Grammar
 Sentence fragments
 Run-on sentences
 Editing passages of text to fix fragments and run-ons
Monday
House keeping
Initial exam prep
Tuesday
15 minutes of
writing –
characters
Wednesday
15 minutes of
writing – setting
Thursday
15 minutes of
writing – conflict
Friday
15 minutes of
writing
Story elements
review
Review: short
story unit
Review – Color of
Water
Review –
grammar and
editing
Review – passage
analysis
For your exam, you can expect a mix of multiple choice questions (scantron) and written
responses based on reading passages from literature we have studied in class. Also, there will
be passages of text for you to edit grammar errors.