Date of Exam:___________________ Room#:_______
Part One: Literature
Literary Work
Something Wicked
This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
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The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
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Components/ Questions to Ask Yourself
How does the author’s word choice advance the plot both at the beginning and at the end of the text?
What are some common and essential rhetorical devices used by the author? What purposes do these devices serve?
Theme: What are some of the major themes within the work and what lines from the text support these themes?
Characterization: How do some of the characters change (dynamic) and why do some of the characters stay the same (static)?
How do you define characters’ relationships and explain their significance /value to the text.
Our Town
Thornton Wilder
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“Warm” read passage
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Poetry
Two “cold” reads
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“Cold” read:
Non-fiction passage
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Theme: What are some of the major themes within the work and what lines from the text support these themes?
Characterization: How do the characters perceive life both while they are living it and when they die?
Stage Manager: What insights does he offer about living, loving, and dying?
Craft and Structure: What makes Wilder’s play so different from other plays being produced/written during the same time period?
Close Reading Strategies: Be an active reader. Engage with the text in order to:
 Make logical inferences about the text based on what the text says.
 Identify literary devices the author uses and the effect of those devices on a variety of literary elements.
Close Reading Strategies: Be an active reader. Engage with the text in order to:
 Identify the main idea of the poem.
 Identify the speaker’s intentions are in choosing certain words/phrases.
 Identify what causes the speaker to act or to think a certain way.
 Identify the structure of the poem. This includes rhyme scheme, stanzas, and lengths of lines.
 Make a connection between the two poems. What do they have in common?
Close Reading Strategies: Look for “signposts” that include:
 Identify words that seems important to the gist or purpose of the text.
 Lines/words/phrases/dialogue that affect the reader’s point of view.
 Lines/words/phrases/dialogue that advance the plot.
 Lines/words/phrases/dialogue that develop the theme or motif.
 Identify the author’s point of view and the lines that suggest it.

Part Two: Grammar
Concept
Sentence Structure
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Identify sentences as simple, compound, complex, or compound/complex.
Subject-Verb Agreement
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Proofread sentences for errors in subject-verb agreement.
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
(3)
Proofread sentences for errors in pronoun-antecedent agreement.
Pronoun Case
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Vocabulary
Units 1-8
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Components and Questions to Ask Yourself
What makes a sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound/complex?
What are some examples of these types of sentences?
Application: Open up any book and look at a sentence. What kind of sentence is it?
What are the rules of subject and verb agreement?
What is the process behind editing sentences for subject and verb agreement?
What steps are involved in editing sentences for subject and verb agreement?
Pay close attention to common grammatical errors.
What are the rules of pronoun and antecedent agreement?
What is the process behind editing sentences for pronoun and antecedent agreement?
What steps are involved in editing sentences for pronoun and antecedent agreement?
Pay close attention to common grammatical error.
What are the rules of pronoun case?
What steps are involved in proofreading sentences for correct pronoun usage?
Pay close attention to common grammatical errors.
How are vocabulary terms used in context? Pay close attention to the context in each sentence.
Identify synonyms and antonyms given limited context.