**ATTENTION 4th HONORS AMLIT: MIDTERM/12WK QUIZ STUDY GUIDE PART I for TUES. 3/23**

4th Honors American Lit./Comp.

IMPORTANT STUDY REMINDERS FOR TUES. 3/23:

Be prepared for your MIDTERM/MAJOR 12wk QUIZ PART I TUES. 3/23--**STUDY GUIDE BELOW

• **and for those of you ABSENT TUES. 3/23 for PART I, you'll be making this up IN CLASS FIRST THING WED. 3/24!!!**

*MIDTERM/12wk QUIZ, FULL PART I and **PART II and III (**to be amended tonight/TBA!!) STUDY GUIDE BELOW: 

QUIZ PART I, TUES. 3/23:

• THE COMMAS/SEMICOLONS/COLONS POST-TEST 
• MATCHING SECTION FOR THE MEDIA AWARENESS/JOURNALISM TERMS in NOTES SECTION 
• based on the Upfront article "Fake News...," name some practical and responsible steps to help discern between FACTUAL and FAKE or BIASED news/news outlets
• THEME-RELATED TERMS for F451, "The Pedestrian," and/or "Harrison Bergeron": dystopia (*vs. utopia), 'cult of personality,' demagogue, collectivism vs. individualism, egalitarian society, equity vs. equality (more on these below), satire/satirical writing, dark humor
• THEMES from the background notes for F451
• definition/use of the lit. term PARADOX in F451  
• definition/use of the lit. term ANTITHESIS in "The Pedestrian"
• Vonnegut's use of satire/absurdity/allusion in "Harrison Bergeron" to add to his story's impact

--**explain in your own words how "Harrison Bergeron's" 'equal'/egalitarian society is actually a paradox based on our discussions of EQUALITY (sameness) vs. EQUITY (fairness); use THIS LINK TO A QUICK GRAPHIC TO HELP YOU THINK CRITICALLY for this question (**focus on the first TWO portions of the graphic, please):
EQUALITY vs. EQUITY Explained

--**SOME QU's in MATCHING SECTION(S) BOTH PART I and II RE: "WRITING MODES/DISCOURSE NOTES" **sheet from class MON. 3/22 and TUES. 3/23 

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QUIZ PART II & III, WED. 3/24 and THURS. 3/25:

• FROM THE BLUE MLA SHEET (WRITING SECTION), NOTES we've taken the last 12 weeks AND GRAMMAR SECTION PRACTICE SHEETS:
• MLA STYLE BASICS for formatting formal essays/general guidelines/consistency
• MLA STYLE BASICS RE: contractions, #s under/above 10
• using 'single quotes for YOUR words' vs. "double quotes for CITED TEXT from a source" in MLA-style formal essays
• uses for "[BRACKETS]" and "...ELLIPSES in quoted...text material" 
• within "quotations," the correct use of commas within the quote marks
• MLA style "correct blending/citing quotes" in responses (--).
• 8th EDITION MLA proper Works Cited citation of a *BOOK WITH ONE AUTHOR* (*see F451 Lit. Analysis FINAL EXT. PARA.)
• name the EIGHT forms of “BE”/PASSIVE VOICE (PV) to avoid in academic writing AND **be prepared to correct/rewrite some sentences containing PV!
• use of 'THIS + NOUN' rule in writing for clarity/being specific
• parallel structure (parallelism) in sentences; identify errors and correct them
• keeping TENSE and PERSON consistent in writing
• writing about literature = 3rd person, PRESENT TENSE VERBS ALWAYS!!!!!
• know what METADISCOURSE and 'THE ABYSS OF INCOHERENCE' mistakes are in writing/AVOID THEM BOTH!
• differences between PROOFREADING vs. REVISION for MULTI-DRAFT FORMAL writing (**"Top 10 Reasons for Failing Papers in ENG 1101/1102," JOURNAL #7 1/2 sheet)
• 1^st/2^nd/3^rd person voice/point of view (POV) in formal academic writing
• AUDIENCE/PURPOSE/CONTEXT and their IMPORTANCE in all writing
• a text's/author's ARGUMENT in writing also means = THESIS/controlling idea/main idea
• correct uses of a SEMICOLON and 'super-semicolon'
• identifying the SUBJECTS in sentences with semicolons
• commas AFTER AN INTRO PHRASE (Because I was tired, ...) or with FANBOYS conjunctions (..., and...)
• COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS to remember/distinguish
• using TRANSITIONS effectively in writing
• POETRY vs. PROSE and the main differences in the genres
• the simple 'purpose' of a PARAGRAPH break (for the eyes)
• using correct PARALLEL STRUCTURE in sentences
• using DASHES and HYPHENS correctly in words/sentences
• APOSTROPHES to show possessives

--IMPORTANT MIDTERM/12wk QUIZ PART III TASK: APPLYING REVISION and EDITING/PROOFING to a paragraph filled w/errors BASED ON QUIZ PART I and BLUE MLA SHEET NOTES we've taken the last 12 weeks

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***A PLETHORA OF BONUSES TO UTILIZE THAT MAY INCLUDE (***several also from notes in class MON. 3/22 through THURS. 3/25): MLA-style European date format, being PROACTIVE/ADAPTABLE/RESOURCEFUL, ANYTHING WE WENT OVER ON POP QUIZZES 1-3, commas after state abbreviations/names, the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates as "The Day Politics and Television Changed Forever,"