Tuesday, November 9, 2021

**3rd HONORS AMLIT TUES. 11/9 STUDY GUIDE FOR WED. 11/10 12WK MAJOR QUIZ/MIDTERM PART II**

3rd Honors American Lit./Comp.

IMPORTANT STUDY REMINDERS FOR CLASS WED. 11/10:

Be prepared for your *MIDTERM*/MAJOR 12wk QUIZ PART II in class tomorrow, WED. 11/10--**STUDY GUIDE BELOW
  • **NOTE: and for those of you ABSENT for any part, you'll be making each section up IN CLASS FIRST THING WHEN YOU RETURN!!!**

*12wk MAJOR QUIZ/MIDTERM PART II STUDY GUIDE BELOW: 
  • and NOTE: **QUIZ PART III is also mentioned below as an FYI for FRI. 11/12; more on this part in class tomorrow!

  • 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 and "The Pedestrian": dystopia (*vs. utopia), 'cult of personality,' demagogue
  • AUDIENCE/PURPOSE/CONTEXT and their IMPORTANCE in all writing
  • 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...)
  • within "quotations," the correct use of commas within the quote marks
  • MLA style "correct blending/integrating AND citing quotes" in responses (--).
  • keeping TENSE and PERSON consistent in writing


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****AND, HEADS UP....

MIDTERM/12wk MAJOR QUIZ PART III TASK COMING UP IN CLASS FRI. 11/12: 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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***ALSO, PART II WILL INCLUDE A PLETHORA OF BONUSES TO UTILIZE THAT MAY INCLUDE:
  • MLA-style European date format
  • being PROACTIVE/ADAPTABLE/RESOURCEFUL 
  • ANYTHING WE WENT OVER ON POP QUIZZES 1-6 
  • the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates as "The Day Politics and Television Changed Forever"

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