Final Exam Test Information
CP English 10
Finals begin next week. Here is the schedule for CP English 10 classes:
Class
2nd period
3rd period
4th period
7th period
8th period
Date
Monday, June 2
Thursday, May 29
Tuesday, June 3
Thursday, May 29
Wednesday, May 28
Time
Periods 1 &
Periods 2 &
Periods 3 &
Periods 7 &
Periods 8 &
2
3
4
8
9
The final will be 40 multiple-choice questions with 2 bonus questions. It will be broken
into 5 sections:
Section 1: This I Believe – This section will focus on the essay “Be Cool to the Pizza
Delivery Dude.” It will make up 12.5% of the exam. You can access this essay on the
wikispace, and there will be a copy included with the final. This section will include
questions on tone, diction, first-person usage, and second-person usage.
Section 2: Julius Caesar – This section will focus on Brutus’s and Antony’s speeches
from Act III. It will make up 25% of the exam. You can access these speeches in your
textbook, and there will be a copy included with the final. This section will focus
HEAVILY on ethos, pathos, and logos as they do (or do not) appear in the
speeches. There will also be questions focusing on irony, prose, verse, rhetorical
questions, and satire.
Section 3: The Five People You Meet in Heaven – This section will focus on pages 2-5 of
the novel. It will make up 12.5% of the exam. You can access this passage in the
books that you have, and there will be a copy included with the final. This section will
ask questions about characterization (both direct and indirect) and flashbacks.
Section 4: Research – This section asks questions about the research process. It will
make up 25% of the exam. It will ask questions about validating web sources,
avoiding plagiarism, writing thesis statements, and using internal citations.
Section 5: Writing and Conventions (3MD) – This section will focus on formal writing
guidelines. It will make up 25% of the exam. You will be given three similar sentences
for each “question,” and you will be asked to pick the one that is properly written.
Some guidelines that are touched upon include, but are not limited to, commas in
complex sentences, pronoun-antecedent agreement, comma splices, semicolons, commas in compound sentences, homonyms (specifically
affect/effect), (avoiding) 1st and 2nd person, (avoiding) contractions,
sentence fragments, and possession.