Transcript Midterm Exam

Test Format
• 75 – 100 questions
• Objective format (Scantron)
• Bring a pencil
GRAMMAR (cont’d)
Punctuation
–Commas
–Semi-colon
–Colon
–Quotation marks
–Italics
–Apostrophe
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Commas
• Separate items in series:
– The juniors will be decorating halls after school working
late at their jobs and studying for their midterms.
• Join sentences with FANBOYS conjunctions
– The students are ready for exams but they have to wait
until tomorrow.
• Introductions
– Running in the marathon the runner stubbed his toe.
– Without permission from their parents they will not be able
to go the party.
• Interrupters
– Dr. Rohe who finished rotations this morning released the
patient.
• Conventional Uses
– Mac Jackson Jr. lives in Las Vegas Nevada and makes
$120000 annually.
Semicolon
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• Separate items in a series (when items have commas)
– We will read the following novels: The Jungle Upton Sinclair I know
Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou and A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry.
– Remember these court cases: Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 Brown v. Board
of Education 1854 Miranda v. Arizona 1966 and Roe v. Wade 1974.
• To Join 2 sentences
– We will be ready for a break we have worked very hard this quarter.
– The team worked hard to achieve its goal therefore, the coach praised
their success.
Apostrophe
(to show possession - doesn’t make a word plural)
• the money__ paw
• The baby__ diaper
• all of the babies__
diapers
• an hour__ nap
• the car__ bumper
• the tooth__ surface
• My aunt__ neighbor
• a dollar__ worth of gas
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Three dollar__ worth of gas
the helmet__ chin strap
the choir__ sound
the team__ win
Contractions
it’s =
there’s=
who’ll =
can’t =
Punctuating Titles
• “Quotation Marks”
(smaller parts)
• Italics
(larger/longer works)
GRAMMAR (cont’d)
Verbs
–Verb tense
–Active vs. Passive Voice
–Shifts in verb tense
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Verb tense
PAST
PAST PART
(has, have, is, was)
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Run
Go
Freeze
Choose
Break
Become
Give
Rise
Do
Know
Swim
Active & Passive Voice
Tip: find S & V then ask did the
subject do the “verb-ing”
• NO = Passive
The mail was checked
by my dad.
The reporter was fired
after giving false
statements.
• YES = Active
Shifts in Tense
• (1) The girls were waiting for the bus. (2)
The bus arrived 20 minutes late. (3) The
bus driver says, “Sorry, I had a crazy
passenger.” (4) The bus finished its route
with no more problems.
Agreement
• Subj/Verb agreement
Tips:
–Mark out prep phrases
–Match –s word with no -s
• Pro/Ant agreement
Each of the girls (bring, brings) (their, her) notebook.
Pronoun Case
Nominative = I, he, she, we, they
Objective = me, him, her, us, them
• Tips:
– Mark out other option
ex: Susan and ( she , her ) bought
my mom and ( I , me ) new coats.
– After a linking verb, read it both ways
ex: The winners were ( they , them ).
– Incomplete construction
ex: No one spells better than ( me , I ).
ex: Their 4x1 team runs almost as fast as (us, we).
MODERN POETRY
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“Mending Wall”
“Chicago”
“This Is Just to Say”
“Fireworks”
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Haiku
Poetry Terms (see old test)
–Define terms
simile, metaphor, tone, rhyme scheme,
couplet, hyperbole, allusion, personification,
imagery,
iambic pentameter
–Be able to identify the use of
those terms in poetry samples.
ex: The girls cackled like hyenas on the prowl.
ex: I am so hungry that I could eat a horse.
ex: The waves danced along the sand and entertained
the snowbirds.
ex: The yard was a miniature Garden of Eden.
6 Traits of Writing
NOT ON THE TEST
Reading Skills
• Be able to find stated and implied main
ideas.
• Be able to use context clues to determine
a word’s meaning.
• Be able to make inferences about
passages that you read.