English IV Final Exam Study Guide
DIVERSITY
Consider the Iceberg Activity, Race Definitions, Dangerous Systematic Process & Conflict Activities plus the “Unpacking
the Invisible Knapsack” reading. How do the Diversity definitions and experiences depicted in these activities,
readings, and videos compare to your views on Diversity?
Analyze the following:
TITLE
“The Lunch
Date”
CHARACTERS
PLOT POINTS /
THEMES
PLACE
CONNECTIONS
TIME
CONNECTIONS
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NAMING
Consider the experiences of researching and writing your names as well as what you learned from listening to your
classmates’ speeches. How do you feel that your personal naming experiences and those of your classmates and the
characters in the words we’ve read/watched have been influenced by time and place?
Pick TWO (2) of the following to analyze:
“By Any Other Name”
“My Name”
“Kaffir Boy in America” “Power of One” “Song of a Mother to Her First Born”
TITLE
CHARACTERS
PLOT POINTS /
THEMES
PLACE
CONNECTIONS
TIME CONNECTIONS
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RELIGION
What are the THREE big questions from this unit?
(Hint – Consider all of the activities surrounding the Big 3 Religion Questions as well as the research and
notes you have from your own and classmates’ World Religion Projects.) These three questions are:
1.
2.
3.
Question #1 – Origin Stories & Archetypes
Title/Description Belief System
of Work
How does this compare to your personal world view?
(Pick ONE from the
BLUE Packet)
Question #2 – Sacred Texts Pertaining to One’s Purpose
Title/Description Belief System
of Work
(Pick ONE from the
BLUE Packet)
How does this compare to your personal world view?
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Question #3 – Afterlife Texts & Dante
Title/Description Belief System
of Work
(Pick ONE from the
BLUE Packet)
Dante’s Inferno
How does this compare to your personal world view?
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COMING OF AGE
Consider the Millennials clip, Common Elements of COA Rituals, the Cultural COA Rituals (Rumspringa, etc) and the
works we read or watched during this unit. How do the COA experiences depicted in these activities, readings, and
videos compare to your own Coming of Age experiences?
Pick TWO (2) of the following works to analyze:
“God Grew Tired of Us”
“Go!” (Documentary)
“The Plan”
“On the Rainy River”
TITLE
CHARACTERS
“Santa Claus in Baghdad”
“His First Ball”
“The Quarry”
PLOT
POINTS /
THEMES
“The Prodigal Son”
PLACE CONNECTIONS TIME CONNECTIONS
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WOMEN’S STUDIES
Consider Real Men Don’t Say Splendid, Commonly Held Stereotypes, and the Marked/Unmarked Women Activity.
What role do you feel gender has played in your own life and experiences? How does that compare to the
experiences of the characters in the works we’ve read/watched?
Pick TWO (2) of the following works to analyze:
“Myth of a Latin Woman”
“Why Shariah?
“A School Bus for Shamisha”
“Behind the Veil””
“Tiger Mom”
“Made in India”
TITLE
CHARACTERS
PLOT
POINTS /
THEMES
PLACE CONNECTIONS
TIME CONNECTIONS
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Leadership
Consider the leadership film that you watched, the Mandela article, your tribute speech and the speeches of your
classmates. How were leaders and leadership depicted in these works and activities? How does this compare to
your own definition of leadership?
Analyze the following:
TITLE
Mandela
Article
Leadership
Movie:
CHARACTERS
PLOT POINTS /
THEMES
PLACE
CONNECTIONS
TIME
CONNECTIONS
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General Information, Outside Reading, & Outliers
What is out ESSENTIAL QUESTION?
What are our SIX (6) Units of Study?
1.
4.
2.
5.
3.
6.
Outside Reading
TITLE
Marking
Period 1
Marking
Period 2
CHARACTERS
PLOT
PLACE
POINTS/THEMES CONNECTIONS
TIME
CONNECTIONS
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Time Connections
Outliers
Place Connections