Monday and Tuesday, 12/17-12/18: Review and Such

Monday and Tuesday

• Honors: Poet Laureate Visits MSPAR 10:30-11:30 (or perhaps a bit longer) am.  You may come if you do not have work to do in your class. 
• Ask him good questions.  Remember that he has been writing, publishing, and teaching for decades and can offer perspective on the writing process. 
• Last day (except for per.3 due to Swanger) to show me your contest entry or poetry reading.   
• Period 3, meet me in the MSPAR. 
• Period 4, go to my room.  If the door still have the MSPAR note on it, then go to the MSPAR. 
• Let's consider David Swanger
• Ask good questions of our poet. 
• Plan the after-test tea party.
• PSAT Results Returned.
• Review in groups of 2-3; review on your own. 
• Look over the class posters. 

Final Exam

• Multiple Choice Exam  
• Roughly 90-100 questions total
• Grammar: Bedford 19, 20, 21
• Sentence Fragments
• Run-on Sentences
• Subject-verb agreement
• Notes and Reading
• "Esther"  (circa 300 B.C.; possibly written by Mordecai)
• "Ali Baba and the Forty Robbers" (author unknown; tales probably dates to circa A.D. 1,000)
•  "A Piece of Chalk" by G.K. Chesterton (published 1905)
• "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" by Arthur Conan Doyle (published 1892)
• "The First Seven Years" by Bernard Malamud. 
• Honors Only: "The Mowing of a Field" by Hilaire Belloc 
• Poetry 
• Origins
• Forms 
• Standout Poets: Collins and Frost
• Binder notes
• Terms (and a few vocabulary questions slipped in there)
• See the right side of the blog and your notes
• Nothing Latin

• What will not be on the test?
• Mythology
• The Lost Tools of Writing

• When do I take my test?
• Per. 1 : Tue, 12/18
• Per. 2-3: Wed., 12/19
• Per. 4-5: Thu., 12/20
• Per. 6-7: Fri., 12/21

Fall 2012 Final Exam Schedule

Monday, December 17, 2012
Period
First	8:10         -         9:40			90 min
Break	9:40         -         9:55			15 min
Second	10:00         -         10:42			42 min
Third	10:47         -         11:29			42 min
Fourth	11:34         -         12:16			42 min
Lunch	12:16         -         12:59			43 min
Fifth	1:04         -         1:46			42 min
Sixth	1:51         -         2:33			42 min
Seventh	2:38         -         3:20			42 min
Buses leave at 3:30
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Period
First Period Final	8:10         -         9:40			90 min
Break	9:40         -         9:55			15 min
Second	10:00         -         10:42			42 min
Third	10:47         -         11:29			42 min
Fourth	11:34         -         12:16			42 min
Lunch	12:16         -         12:59			43 min
Fifth	1:04         -         1:46			42 min
Sixth	1:51         -         2:33			42 min
Seventh	2:38         -         3:20			42 min
Buses leave at 3:30
Wednesday-Friday, December 19-21, 2012
Period
Second/Fourth/Sixth	8:10         -         9:40			90 min
Break	9:40         -         10:10			30 min
Third/Fifth/Seventh	10:15         -         11:45			90 min
Buses leave at 11:55