Tomorrow's practice exam will be a great way to learn what you do not yet know, right?
Study tonight.
Make sure you know:
1. our vocabulary words
2. our literary must-have lists
3. where you need to improve your writing
4. how to integrate and cite quotations
5. how to use sentence variety and verbs for a formal effect
6. how to show and not tell
7. how to punctuate dialogue (for the story you have to write on the exam)
8. how to make your story interesting (details, description, short paragraphs, accurate word choice, good character development, symbols, put the symbol in the title, show but don't TELL your theme
9. reading on and between the lines
10. how to create a what/so what chart
11. how to infer
12. how to go beyond the obvious
13. how to write a literary paragraph
14. how to study for an exam!!!
We won't have USSR tomorrow but if you finish the exam early, you'll be able to read all of Thursday and Friday. YOU MUST FINISH THE NOVEL, ANIMAL FARM, BY JAN. 6TH. Be sure to post-it note
1. examples of rules
2. examples of breaking the rules
3. how to acquire power
4. Bonus: examples of satire: hyperbole, understatement, wit, sarcasm, and irony (verbal, situational, and dramatic).
La la la
You are learning soooo much!!!
I am loving your poems.
If you write poems over the holiday, I will edit them when you return.
