6th Study Guide for Language Arts Final

  1. Writing and Grammar
    1. Writing well constructed paragraphs, writing to persuade, and standard business letters
    2. Integrating quotations from sources, acknowledging sources and avoiding plagiarism
  2. Grammar (You are responsible for Units 1 through 7 in the Textbook. The following is just to give you some guidance.)
    1. Punctuation based on sentence structure
    2. Review other punctuation including:
      1. Quotations, dialogue
      2. Parentheses, Hyphens & Dashes, Colons, Italics, Apostrophes
    3. Coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor, yet) & Compare and contrast (well, better, best; far, farther, furthest, bad, worse, worst…)
    4. Use the following correctly: between/among - bring/take - accept/except - fewer/less - who/whom – their/they’re/there
    5. Use troublesome verbs (set, sit; rise, raise; lie, lay) correctly
    6. correlative (both…and, either…or, neither…nor, not only…but also)
    7. Parts of speech (verb, noun, subject & complete subject, predicate and complete predicate, object, pronoun, article)
    8. Identify sentence types and write for variety
    9. The 6 Verb Tenses and participles
    10. Synonyms, Antonyms, homographs, homophones
  3. Spelling and vocabulary
  4. Poems
    1. All the World’s a Stage
    2. Apostrophe to the Ocean
    3. I wandered Lonely as a Cloud
    4. If
    5. Mother to Son
    6. The Raven
    7. Sympathy
    8. Woman Work
  5. Short stories/Myths
    1. Apollo and Daphne
    2. Orpheus and Eurydice
    3. Narcissus and Galatea
    4. The Fall of the House of Usher
    5. The Last Leaf
  6. Novels, Plays and the elements of fiction
    1. The Prince and the Pauper
    2. Julius Caesar
    3. Esperanza Rising
  7. Literary Terms: literal and figurative, imagery, metaphor and simile, symbol, personification Elements of Drama: Tragedy, comedy, conflict, suspense, rising and falling action, climax, soliloquies and asides
  8. Speaking
    1. Organize an outline & know the elements of an extemporaneous speech

 

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