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Hello 8A today I will be talking about our ELA exam. I chose ELA because I think it is one of the more fun classes that we have to study for exams. He have to know the following stories:

     The Old Man and the Sea

    Treasure Island-                                    

              Christmas Carol

               The Hockey Sweater

               Stories and Poetry from Crossroads- A Hero's Welcome, Joy-Riding,

                              p.144-181 poetry covered, Here's to You Joe Dimaggio

               Reading circle books- Family Ties- Amy Tan, and Barack Obama,

                               and Holiday Remarks by Barack Obama as well as your choice story

               Poems- Cremation of Sam McGee, the Raven, Flanders Fields

We also need to know many characters from the following stories John McCrae, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alice Munro, Roche Carrier, Robert W. Service, Paul Simon, Ernest Hemingway, Joe DiMaggio, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Barack Obama, and Amy Tan. Yes, it is a big list but isn’t to hard to memorize if you have read the stories. In addition to these characters we also have to know all the authors of the books.

Another part of our exam is writing. For this subject/part we will have to be able to apply/explain/use:

5-Paragraph Essay format, and parts (hook, thesis, topic sentence, supporting evidence or examples, concluding sentence, transition sentence, works  cited)

MLA form

Types of poetry- haiku, concrete poetry, free verse, limerick, couplet

Proper paragraph and sentence structure

                Then we have to know grammar, for me this is probably the hardest part in the exam. We have to know things like: Parts of Speech- verbs (linking, auxiliary, and action), nouns (proper, common, abstract, and concrete), adjectives (articles, common and proper), adverbs (and the words they modify- including conjunctions)

                Lastly we have to know information for a couple of other handouts like the poetic devices booklet, and parts of a story.