English IV Final Exam Study Guide – Honors
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?
Review “The Lunch Date” short video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuTZigxUY8) by
analyze the following:
- characters
- plot points
- theme
- connections to time AND place
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 using the characters, plot points, theme and
connections to time AND place
“By Any Other Name”
“My Name”
“Kaffir Boy in America”
“Song of a Mother to her Firstborn”
“Power of One”
English IV Final Exam Study Guide – Honors
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
of Work
Belief System
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
of Work
(Pick ONE from the
BLUE Packet)
Belief System
How does this compare to your personal world view?
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Question #3 – Afterlife Texts & Dante
Title/Description Belief System
of Work
How does this compare to your personal world view?
(Pick ONE from the
BLUE Packet)
Dante’s Inferno
Pull supporting details from your Religious Critique (unit paper) that supports, qualifies, or
denies to what extent modern culture is influenced by world religion.
How does the subject of your paper and/or the supporting details compare to your personal
world view on religion and spirituality? In other words, to what extent do you believe what
you wrote?
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COMING OF AGE
Consider the Millennials clip, Common Elements of COA Rituals, 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 according to characters, plot points, themes,
and connections to time AND place.
“God Grew Tired of Us” (Documentary)
“The Hand of Fatima”
“On the Rainy River”
“Go!” (Documentary)
“Santa Claus in Baghdad”
“His First Ball”
“Handful of Dates”
“The Quarry”
“The Prodigal Son”
GENDER STUDIES
Consider Commonly Held Stereotypes, and the Marked/Unmarked Women Activity, and the TV Anaylsis. 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 according to characters, plot points, theme,
and connections to time AND place.
“Myth of a Latin Woman”
“Another Evening in the Club”
“Why Shariah?
“Behind the Veil””
“A School Bus for Shamisha”
“Made in India”
“A Doll House”
“Tiger Mom”
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Leadership
Consider the leadership film that you watched, and 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
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 FIVE (5) Units of Study?
1.
4.
2.
5.
3.
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
Characters over the
course of 5 units that are
arguably consider
“outliers”- provide
examples as to how they
fit this title
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.