8th Grade Spring Exam Study Guide 2018

8^th Grade Final Exam Study Guide: LANGUAGE ARTS                                Spring 2018

To Create YOUR study guide you will need to collect the following from your I.S.N:

I.               Romeo & Juliet:

-        R+J important character quiz

-        Acts 1-5 quizzes (Quotation Identifications)

-        Romeo & Juliet essay

II.              Advanced Poetry:

-        All printed poems in ISN.

-        Poem Sonnet Analysis worksheets

-        Poetic Terms

-        Class notes from poetry

III.            Night:

-        All Night notes

-        Night  vocabulary words

       IV.          Maus I & II:

-        All Maus I & II notes, Maus I worksheet, reflections, and final “panel exploration” test.

-        Maus vocabulary words worksheet

        V.          Grammar and Writing Skills: Review our class video on Ms. Nadow’s YouTube channel!

-        Review Punctuation: End marks, abbreviations, commas in compound sentences and series, other comma uses, semicolons and colons, quotation marks, apostrophes, parentheses, hyphens, dashes.

-        Review types of sentences: additional practice worksheet to be distributed in class.

-        Review parts of speech: Adjectives, nouns, adverbs, double negatives, misplaced modifiers, prepositions and prepositional phrases, conjunctions, interjections, and more…

-        Sentence fragments, run-on sentences, adding details, parallel structure, wordiness, clichés, formal vs. informal English usage.

VI.            Etymology Phrases, Words and Roots:

Create a list of all words and roots for Etymology.