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9th grade study guide for Monday's test

Ninth Grade Literature and Composition

Middle Eastern Literature Test

Study Guide

• Know what hyperbole is (p. 458, question 6 -- basically, a literary exaggeration -- "his feet were as big as a barge").
• Know what antithesis is (p. 450).
• Memorize the basic structure of a haiku (three line poem with 5 – 7—5 syllables per line).
• Memorize the structure of a ruba’i (in your book, p. 460).

Review the following texts. Be familiar with them, reread them if necessary.

• The Flood (from the Tanakh)
• “The Exordium” and “Daylight” from the Qur’an
• “The Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor” from The Thousand and One Nights
• Our selections from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
• “The Counsels of the Bird” from The Masnavi
• “The Sound of Birds at Noon” by Dahlia Ravikovich
• “Elegy for a Woman of No Importance” by Nāzik al-Malā’ikah
• “The Diameter of the Bomb” by Yehuda Amichai
• “Butterflies” by Fawziyya Abu Khalid

posted by Jenny Caudle Crisp @ 12:50 PM

7th and 8th grade assignments for Tuesday 5/15

Choose your final exam topic. The choices were:

Army snipers

History of the band Iron Maiden

The real Texas chainsaw massacre (murderer Ed Gein)

History of Nintendo

Famous overdoses (rock stars)

Now, go to Wikipedia and look up your topic. Based on what you find there (if it's overdoses, pick one famous musician who overdosed) write out a bullet-point outline of what you think you might write on the final exam. Basically, I want you to familiarize yourself with your topic (I won't really let you use Wikipedia on the final exam; this is just practice). Then, go to citationmachine.net and make the Works Cited listing for your Wikipedia page. Turn both the outline and the citation in tomorrow (don't lose them!)

When you finish, try out the crossword puzzles at bestcrosswords.com.

posted by Jenny Caudle Crisp @ 11:06 AM