01/20/2012

I missed seeing most of you this crazy weather week! If you were absent yesterday and did not get a study guide, I am posting one below for you! As far as the final exam goes, it is what we call a "Big Ideas" final in the sense that if you know the central theme, author, key characters and their roles, and finally the literary terminology we've covered over ther course of the semester, you will be fine. That still sounds like a lot right? Let me give you some examples:
For author's and their works, you would simply have to find the author and match them to the title of their work, so who wrote “I Hate and I Love?”
When I say "Big Ideas," I mean that if you know the basic theme of each work, you should be able to answer the question. For example: Poem about moderation. (Which poem is this?) And you'll have a list to choose from... So the questions are not super detailed about each work we covered because, in English, we cover so many works of literature, but we want you to remember the "Big Ideas" that will be referenced again throughout high school and college. The exam is entirely multiple choice and 130 questions.
Hopefully that eases your mind some (if you were worried that is).

Suggestions for study:

• As always, flashcards of authors' names on one side, works and their central theme on the other
• Lit terms: Name of term and a picture that represents it on one side of card, definition on the other side
• Getting together with a fellow Humanities student and studying together for both subjects is always a great plan.

Here is the study guide: Semester I Study Guide