Review for Third Six Weeks Test Tomorrow!!!

The first selection of he test will be a poem. 

It will NOT be a Narrative Poem.  This means students need to know the difference between a lyric poem and a free verse poem.

The SPEAKER of the poem is the person talking in the poem.

Figurative Language often compares two Unlike things.

The second and third selections of the test are paired passages.  The first is a person's fictional diary entry.  The second is non-fiction over Juneteenth. 
When we see paired passages the questions are going to involve some comparing and contrasting.

For this section students should review: SUMMARY (which kicked their tail ends on the last test), MAIN IDEA, FIGURATIVE LANGAUGE, CONCLUSIONS, COMPARE and CONTRAST, and THEME!

There will be TWO questions on this test over THEME so reviewing it would be a good idea!

The fourth selection is non-fiction in the form of an Internet webpage.  Students should know when you click on the tabs at the top of a web page it takes you to information about that topic.

Students should review the way non-fiction can be organized by headings.  Students should review text features and how they can help them understand a text.

Students need to understand dictionary entries.

The final selection of the test is a Drama.

Students needs to be familiar with the elements of drama.

The drama includes standard fiction questions about characters, setting, and plot.  There is also a LONG summary question so please encourage students to read carefully, take their time, and search for a beginning, middle, and end as well as a problem and solution.

Students will also have a difficult question regarding the DENOUEMENT, or FALLING ACTION of the play.  This occurs after the problem has been solved and right before the end of the story.

Students should pay close attention to vocabulary and using context clues.

Make sure they sleep well and eat breakfast in the morning!

Hopefully this will help a little with knowing what to study.  All of this information can be found in the blog.

Thanks for all you do!