Semester+I+Exam

toc =The Structure of the Exam=

1. Vocabulary (worth 25% of the exam grade)


 * Choose any TWO of the following essay questions:**

2. Non-Fiction (worth 40% of the exam grade)
 * //The Iroquois Consititution//
 * Columbus, from //Journal of the First Voyage to America//
 * Smith, from //The General History of Virginia//
 * Bradford, from //Of Plymouth Plantation//
 * Edwards, from //Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God//
 * Franklin, from //The Autobiography//
 * Jefferson, //The Declaration of Independence//
 * Paine, from //The Crisis, Number 1//
 * Henry, //Speech in the Virginia Convention//
 * Franklin, //Speech in the Convention//
 * Adams, //Letter to Her Daughter from the New White House//
 * Douglass, //Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass//

3. Fiction (worth 40% of the exam grade)
 * //The Earth on Turtle's Back//
 * //When Grizzlies Walked Upright//
 * from //The Navaho Origin Legend//
 * Irving, "The Devil and Tom Walker"
 * Hawthorne, "The Minister's Black Veil"
 * Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"
 * Poe, "The Masque of the Red Death"
 * Poe, "The Pit and the Pendulum"
 * Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher"
 * Poe

4. Poetry (worth 40% of the exam grade)
 * Taylor, "Huswifery"
 * Bradstreet, "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
 * Wheatley, "An Hymn to the Evening"
 * Longfellow, "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls"
 * Bryant, "Thanatopsis"
 * Holmes, "Old Ironsides"
 * Whittier, from //Snowbound//


 * Part 1 will be a series of matching questions. Parts 2, 3, and 4 will be brief essay questions that will ask you to relate a number of works to a given topic, theme or question. Once the vocabulary section is finished, you will be able to refer to the textbooks and your spiral notebook for the essay questions. **

=Preparing for the Exam=

Probably the most important way to prepare for this exam is to review the works we have read (listed above) throughout the semester. You may want to give special attention to the readings from Quarter One to bring them more freshly to mind. The Essay sections will test your ability to think and write about literature. These questions will focus on your ability to choose several readings from the semester that relate to the question -- and to express clearly your ideas about them in relation to the question. So, again, a familiarity with everything we have read will be a great help and timesaver during the exam.

The Vocabulary section will test whether or not you know what the word means. We've been working almost all quarter with these words through the vocabulary game; but if you are still uncertain of their meaning, a certain amount of memorization may be useful.