A thoughtful review of the material we have covered in class will help. Note the following topics which you should review:
Rhetorical devices
All vocabulary words excluding Dr. Dictionary words.
Reading we have done as a class: Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Bear, James Baldwin, The Crucible, The Ballad of the Sad Café and selections from The Norton Reader. I would recommend just paging through the notes, assignments and tables of contents of these books to refresh the memory. Certainly, if you have not read the pieces you should do so before the exam. The Norton essays are as follows in order of their appearance in the text (an impressive list):
PERSONAL REPORT: "How it Feels to Be Colored Me," "A Victim,"
"One Violent Crime," The Town Dump," "Dumpster Diving,"
"Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self," "The Guardian
Angle," "Once More to the Lake."
PEOPLE, PLACES: "The Case of Harry Houdini," "Terwilliger Bunts
One," "Club Denali."
HUMAN NATURE: "Thinking as a Hobby," "The Eureka Phenomenon."
CULTURAL CRITIQUE: "Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw!" "Who
Shot Johnny?"
OP-EDS: "Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get rid of Guns," "Portrait
of the Artist as a Focus Group."
EDUCATION: "Clamorous to Learn," "College is a Waste of Time
and Money," "Taking Women Students Seriously."
ALBUM OF STYLES: "Of Youth and Age," "No Man Is an Island,"
"The Pyramids," "The Watch and the Watch-makier," "A
Dog's Eye View of Man," "The Ugly Tourist."
NATURE: "Forever Virgin: The American View of America," "The
Trouble with Wilderness."
ETHICS: "Letter to his Son," "Advice to Youth," "In
Defense of Prejudice," "The Case for Torture," "The Case
for Animal Rights," "The Case for the Use of Animals in biomedical
Research," "Thank God for the Atomic Bomb."
HISTORY: "Denmark and the Jews," "Rewriting American History,"
"The Historian and His Facts."
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT: "Shooting an Elephant," "Declaration
of Independence (both versions)," "Democracy (White)," "Democracy
(Becker)," "The Tyranny of the Majority."
SCIENCE: "Darwin's Middle Road."
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS: "One Writer's Beginnings."
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION: "Salvation," "The Owl Who Was God,"
"Sight into Insight."
Do not forget about our discussions and your notes on them:
Summer project presentations
Socratic Seminars
Whole Class discussions
Book discussions
Argumentative discussions (some)
Junior project presentations
