What Would Mr. G. Do If He Had to Study For His Own Exam?
____*Take excellent notes during all review sessions regarding the format of the exam.
For the Strunk and White section…
_____1. Re-read pages 1-14 in Strunk and White.
_____2. Re-read pages 1-14 in Strunk and White AGAIN!
_____3. Make flash cards for rules 1-11. Put the rule on one side, and examples on the back.
_____4. Make flash cards for all of the word pairs on our most commonly mis-used words list. Write
the word pair on one side and a three-sentence explanation of the difference between the
two words on the other.
_____5. Spend one hour with a friend quizzing each other using your flash cards. Repeat as needed.
_____6. Ask questions at the review sessions about any rules or examples that are still confusing to
you.
For the art essay…
_____1. Print up color copies of all 20 art images from the exam review Artstor folder:
Goblues.org-->Academics-->Library-->Skinner-->Artstor-->Enter Here-->Folders and Image Groups (open)-->Final
Exam Images for World Studies (2011)Final Exam Images for World Studies 2013
_____2. Make extensive notes on each of the 20 images (you should have notes on 10 from last sem.).
_____3. Think about which images would form the most interesting art exhibit in a museum.
_____4. Study the art terms handout from Ms. Arbor (make index cards to help you master them).
_____5. Review notes and handouts on history and religion that might be helpful in analyzing the art.
For the Chaucer & “Why do we attend school?” essay…
_____1. Re-read the Chaucer selections in your Norton Anthology (pages 2045-2119).
_____2. Review your active reading of pages 2045-2119 in Norton.
_____3. Review key characters and events in “The Miller’s Tale,” “The Pardoner’s Tale,” and “The
Wife of Bath’s Tale.”
_____4. Review your handout on “Why Do We Attend School?”
_____5. Look for ways to connect our 60 reasons for attending school to our reading of Chaucer.
_____6. Outline your essay connecting “Why Do We Attend School?” to Chaucer.
For the “What should you love the most?” essay…
_____1. Review how each of the following works answers Dante’s question:
_____1. Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
_____2. Hesse’s Siddhartha
_____3. The Bhagavad-Gita
_____4. The Ramayana
_____5. Beowulf
_____6. Kalidasa’s Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection
_____7. Dante’s Inferno
_____8. Augustine’s Confessions
_____9. The Gospel of Mark
_____10. Hinduism, Islam, Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity (see Prothero, Fiero, & class
notes)
_____11. Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice
_____12. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
_____2. Think about your own answer to Dante’s question and which work listed above best
aligns with your own answer.
_____3. Outline an essay response to Dante’s question referring to at least 5 of the works above (and
following the rubric shared in class)
You can earn extra credit on the exam by doing the following:
_____1. Completing all of the above steps (check off each one as you complete it)
_____2. Documenting below what, when, and how you studied for the exam. Be sure to list the
specific dates and times when you studied, exactly what you studied, and how you studied. The
more detailed your description, the more credit you can earn. In other words, use the space below
to keep a study log.
_____3. Turn this form in to me on Friday when you take the English exam.