8th Grade Midterm Review!

Following is the review for the comprehensive ELA midterm, which will take place on Wednesday, December 14.

Expository Texts

1.    What is the purpose of expository texts?

2.    True of False: Expository texts often reflect on writers opinions.

3.    Instructions or how-to documents are also known as what?

4.    What is “circumlocution?”

5.    What is “recursion?”

6.    What are the characteristics of the “Problem and Solution” organizational pattern?

7.    What are the characteristics of the “Description” organizational pattern?

8.    What is “Narrative Interspersion?”

9.    What are the characteristics of the “Cause and Effect” organizational pattern?

10.   What is “Comparison?”

11.   What are the: must haves, might haves, and wont haves, of expository text?

Drama

Be familiar with “The Diary of Anne Frank”

Know the following terms:

·         Dramatic irony

·         Stage directions

·         Drama

·         Dialogue

·         Foreshadowing

·         theme

Reading

Know what good readers do

Be able to define, identify and ask the following types of questions:

·         Literal

·         Interpretative

·         Evaluative

·         Universal

Be able to define, identify and make the following types of connections:

·         Textual

·         Personal

·         worldly

Know plot elements

Conflict types

Protagonist

Antagonist

Narration (point of view) styles:   

·         first person

·         third person limited

·         third person omniscient

·         third person subjective

·         third person objective

Know the author, plot elements, and story of the “The Tell-Tale Heart”

           

Writing

Know how many steps are in the writing process and its order.

Know what happens in each step

Know the purpose of a subordinating conjunction.

Know what AAAWWUBIS is.

Know the traits and differences of phrases and clauses

Adjectival clause

Adjectival phrase

Know what an independent clause is.

Know what a dependent clause is.

Sentence types to know:

·         simple

·         compound

·         complex

·         complete

Capitalization rules

Word Study/Vocab

Know the difference between a root word, prefix, and suffix.

Know what languages root words are commonly borrowed from.

Know the meaning of the following:

·         Bio

·         auto

·         Tele

·         graph

·         Pre-

·         Re-

·         -ology

Vocabulary words to know:

·         Pandemonium

·         Foreboding

·         Unabashed

·         Indignantly

·         Disgruntled

·         Remorse

·         Fortify

·         Apprehension