Study Guide for Senior Composition Final Exam

Study the information from your Memoirs of a Geisha Test – all the information is fair game
A. Focus on the main characters
1. Make sure you know who they are
2. Why they’re important to the story
3. Key facts about them
B. Review the main points of the book
1. What are they?
2. What makes them important?
3. Would the story be the same without them?
C. Review the story as a whole
1. Make sure you know what order things happen in
2. Key turning points in Chiyo/Sayuri’s life
D. Review the differences between the book and the movie
1. What things are different in the movie?
2. What things are different in the book?
3. Why does the movie change certain things?
4. Are those things for the better?

Review the two short stories that we’ve read this semester
1. The Yellow Wallpaper

2. Young Goodman Brown
-For each of these stories, go back and re-read them so that you’re familiar with what each story is about
A. Focus on the key themes – What are they?
B. Who are the characters in the story?
C. What function does each character serve?
D. What have the characters learned?

Study the information from your A Midsummer Night’s Dream test and the questions you answered – all the information is fair game
A. Focus on the main characters
1. Make sure you know who they are
2. Why they’re important to the story
3. Key facts about them
B. Review the main points of the play
1. What are they?
2. What makes them important?
3. Would the story be the same without them?
C. Review the play as a whole
1. Make sure you know what order things happen in
2. Key turning points in the play
3. Differences between fairy world and reality

 

 

Homework for Senior Composition
Senior Composition

Tuesday the 8th
Study for your MSND test tomorrow!

Wednesday the 9th
Study for your essay section of MSND test tomorrow!

Thursday the 10th
Bring Young Goodman Brown and the Yellow Wallpaper to class tomorrow

Friday the 11th
Bring your Memoirs and MSND information to class on Monday; we will begin reviewing for your final exam

 

MS French 1

Monday the 8th
Study for your quiz on clothing and professions vocabulary on Wednesday

Wednesday the 10th
Study for your "ir" verbs quiz on Friday