**ATTENTION 3rd HONORS AMLIT IMPORTANT STUDY GUIDE FOR MAJOR QUIZ PART I STARTING ON TUES. 3/29**

3rd Honors American Lit./Comp.

**AT HOME TONIGHT, MON. 3/28**

**NOTE BELOW: your MAJOR 12WK QUIZ DAY 1/PART I TUES. 3/29 STUDY GUIDE BELOW!!

• Be prepared for MAJOR 12WK QUIZ PART I TUES. 3/29 (and PART II WED. 3/30--go ahead and start studying now and more about PART III will be announced later this week!!!) 

**12WK MAJOR QUIZ, FULL PART I and PART II STUDY GUIDE BELOW: 

QUIZ PART I, TUES. 3/29:

**--MATCHING SECTION FOR THE DIGITAL/MEDIA LITERACY/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: dystopia (*vs. utopia), 'cult of personality,' demagogue
--THEMES and background notes for F451
--definition/use of the lit. term PARADOX and ALLUSION in F451  
--definition/use of the lit. term ANTITHESIS in "The Pedestrian"

**--THE COMMAS/SEMICOLONS/COLONS PRE-TEST SHEET: will complete for part of quiz as a POST-TEST
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12WK MAJOR QUIZ PART II, WED. 3/30:

**PLEASE NOTE FOR THIS QUIZ PART II STUDY GUIDE: WE WILL NOT ACTUALLY "COMPLETE"/COVER/GO OVER SOME OF THE ITEMS LISTED HERE UNTIL TUES. 3/28 or even WED. 3/29 before each PART, so listen closely and more info in class!

FROM THE BLUE MLA SHEET (WRITING SECTION), NOTES we've taken the last 6-8 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!

--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)
--correct PARALLEL STRUCTURE in sentences
--using DASHES and HYPHENS correctly in words/sentences
--APOSTROPHES to show possessives

***********AND LOOKING AHEAD: 

IMPORTANT MAJOR QUIZ PART III TASK: APPLYING REVISION and EDITING/PROOFING to a paragraph filled w/errors BASED ON THE BLUE MLA SHEET NOTES we've taken the last 6-8 weeks