Unit 1 Study Guide
Student Name: _______________________________Date: _______ Period: _____
Tone
Grammar
5-7
questions
5-7
questions
Reading
(New
Story)
10-12
questions
Recall
5 questions
Writing
(On
“WAYG?
WHYB?”)
1 free
response
paragraph
Read the following passage and determine the narrator’s tone:
What to study?
The levels-of-processing model of human memory was the first
major theoretical alternative to the dual-store model. According
to this view, incoming information is processed by a central
processor (similar to a central executive aspect of working
memory I spoke of earlier) at any one of a number of different
levels of complexity.
a. Elated
b. Wrathful
c. Cynical
d. Instructive
e. Didactic
Read the following sentence and answer the questions below.
What to study?
Yesterday, the yellow legal pad sat on the kitchen counter.
What part of speech is “yesterday” in the sentence above?
a. Linking Verb
b. Adjective
c. Adverb
d. Subject
e. Object
In the passage above, which of the following events is most likely
the complication?
a. The moment that the father kicked his son.
b. The moment that Bettina ran from the car.
c. The moment that the father noticed the missing
possessions.
d. The moment that the father tells the mother to lay down.
e. The moment that the father and son hug and make up.
In “Barbie Doll” what is the best statement of message or theme .
...
a. Society is malicious.
b. Society’s judgement can help the individual.
c. Society’s judgement can harm the individual.
d. Insecurity is dangerous.
e. The main character should not have listened to her
classmates.
Possible prompts:
 Universal Message: What is the universal message or
theme of this story?
 Characterization: How is __________ characterized and
how does his/her personality influence plot?
 Tone: What is the author’s tone and how does tone
reveal meaning?
 Plot: How does the plot deviate from Freytag’s pyramid?
 Conflict: What is the central conflict and how is it
resolved?
What to study?
What to study?
What to study?