Honors English I
Teacher: Mrs. Boucher
This class has a lot of vocabulary to remember, a LOT of vocabulary. It also requires at least some level of basic comprehension of the content, but in all honesty, as long as you have actually read the books and short stories, can remember what you read, and spend some time reviewing the vocab words, you're golden.
This class has a lot of vocabulary to remember, a LOT of vocabulary. It also requires at least some level of basic comprehension of the content, but in all honesty, as long as you have actually read the books and short stories, can remember what you read, and spend some time reviewing the vocab words, you're golden.
Content
Scantron (multiple choice and matching): vocabulary, grammar, literature
Short Written Answers: novels and shorts stories
Four or Five-Paragraph Essay: major topics from Sense and Sensibility and The Joy Luck Club
Short Written Answers: novels and shorts stories
Four or Five-Paragraph Essay: major topics from Sense and Sensibility and The Joy Luck Club
What to Study
Vocabulary
These words are from the units covered in the vocabulary books. However, not all of the words you learned will be on the midterm; you only need to know the following one hundred:
1. ambidextrous, augment, bereft, deploy, fortitude, gape, insidious, opulent, pliable, reiterate, tentative, verbatim, warily
2. amicable, belligerent, cursory, duplicity, extol, feasible, grimace, impervious, impetus, meticulous, nostalgia, quintessence, scrutinize, tepid
3. coerce, culinary, demise, exhilarate, fallow, inclement, muse, negligible, perpetuate, precedent, redress, sojourn, urbane
4. ascertain, bequeath, cogent, expunge, finite, invulnerable, nonchalant, panacea, skulk, uncanny, venial
5. altruistic, benefactor, chivalrous, clemency, dearth, discrepancy, facile, indomitable, plod, temerity, truculent, unfeigned, virulent
6. brandish, destitute, explicit, ironic, musty, officious, pinnacle, premeditated, rampant, solace, supple
7. buffet, corrosive, discern, implicate, inter, martinet, renegade, somber, squalid, turbulent, vociferous, voluminous
8. apathy, condolence, consecrate, deride, multifarious, obsolete, omnivorous, parsimonious, quandary, recalcitrant, revel, stultify, suave
Grammar
The Eight Parts of Speech (know correct definition and usage)
noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection
Literature
Literary Terms (all of the ones that we learned in class)
fiction, plot, exposition, conflict (internal and external), rising action, falling action, resolution/denouement, character (flat, round, dynamic, static), protagonist, antagonist, characterization (direct and indirect), irony (situational and dramatic), suspense, setting, subject, theme, point of view, suspense, mood, motivation, short story, novel, narrator (first-, second- and third-person; omniscient and limited third-person).
You must know the title, author, genre and information from the text about plot events, characters, & important themes of these texts:
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Short stories: “The Girl Who Can” by Ama Ata Aidoo; “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe; “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant; “The Red-headed League” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell
These words are from the units covered in the vocabulary books. However, not all of the words you learned will be on the midterm; you only need to know the following one hundred:
1. ambidextrous, augment, bereft, deploy, fortitude, gape, insidious, opulent, pliable, reiterate, tentative, verbatim, warily
2. amicable, belligerent, cursory, duplicity, extol, feasible, grimace, impervious, impetus, meticulous, nostalgia, quintessence, scrutinize, tepid
3. coerce, culinary, demise, exhilarate, fallow, inclement, muse, negligible, perpetuate, precedent, redress, sojourn, urbane
4. ascertain, bequeath, cogent, expunge, finite, invulnerable, nonchalant, panacea, skulk, uncanny, venial
5. altruistic, benefactor, chivalrous, clemency, dearth, discrepancy, facile, indomitable, plod, temerity, truculent, unfeigned, virulent
6. brandish, destitute, explicit, ironic, musty, officious, pinnacle, premeditated, rampant, solace, supple
7. buffet, corrosive, discern, implicate, inter, martinet, renegade, somber, squalid, turbulent, vociferous, voluminous
8. apathy, condolence, consecrate, deride, multifarious, obsolete, omnivorous, parsimonious, quandary, recalcitrant, revel, stultify, suave
Grammar
The Eight Parts of Speech (know correct definition and usage)
noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection
Literature
Literary Terms (all of the ones that we learned in class)
fiction, plot, exposition, conflict (internal and external), rising action, falling action, resolution/denouement, character (flat, round, dynamic, static), protagonist, antagonist, characterization (direct and indirect), irony (situational and dramatic), suspense, setting, subject, theme, point of view, suspense, mood, motivation, short story, novel, narrator (first-, second- and third-person; omniscient and limited third-person).
You must know the title, author, genre and information from the text about plot events, characters, & important themes of these texts:
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Short stories: “The Girl Who Can” by Ama Ata Aidoo; “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe; “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant; “The Red-headed League” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell
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