World of Shakespeare:

The World of Shakespeare: Final Exam Review Sheet

Your final exam will ask you to answer 5 of 7 questions based on the plays and sonnets that we read in this course. To assist you in remembering, you may bring in one sheet of notes to remind you of specific plays and characters.

We read the following: Othello, Hamlet, The12th Night, Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet (selections) and selected sonnets.

The following prompts are possible questions to consider (hint, hint):

Examine the relationship in terms of a timeline between Desdemona and Othello. Please make sure to examine the end of their relationship, and how specifically Othello believes she has not been faithful.


Please read the first page of each play. How is the opening in each play important to the story? Does it bring you in and make you interested? How? Please have specific examples from at least 3 plays.

Talk about what makes a Shakespearian tragedy. Please examine one tragedy in your study group and discuss how it fits.

Please define the following literary devices that Shakespeare uses:
Alliteration, simile, metaphor, reversed word, reversed sentence construction, classical allusion, personification, inflection, stress, aside, using language to show class and status in the play. Sonnet

Character can be defined by how one handles power. Look at 3 characters and make a list how each handles power.

Discuss the use of comedy in his plays. What ideas and specific plays hold up well and still make us laugh. Please use specific scenes in your discussions.

Please review important information on Shakespeare. Please work to define what we know about him. If you had to write his obituary, what would you list about his life?

Define a Shakespearian Sonnet. What did his sonnets reveal about him that his plays may not have? Pick a sonnet and be familiar enough with it that you could reference it in an answer.

World of Shakespeare:

Today for your quiz, I asked you to show act 4 in 32 seconds.

Tonight, please finish the play. We will be reviewing for the final Thursday.

Brit Lit:

Reminder: Final exam this Thursday. In class today we spent the entire block reviewing. Please make sure you study and have solid examples to use on the final.

Word O' the Week:

Selcouth [sel-kooth]: Adj. Unfamiliar, rare, strange. From Old English meaning seldom known.

Think:

Gilligan's 1st name was Willy. The Skipper- Jonas Grumby. Both were mentioned in the first episode, then never used again....

World of Shakespeare:

Today we performed your Act 3 scenes.

Please finish the play for Thursday at home.

We will be reviewing for the final this Friday Wed and Thurs.

Brit Lit:

Hold on tight and end in greatness: it is final week....

Today we broke into study groups and generated examples from 1984. Reminder: the novel was to be finished for today. Please make sure that you finish the book, as there will be questions on the final.

Last call on room 101 papers. These were due Friday and 10 points are deducted for each late day (weekends and holidays do not count)

Wed. we will be reviewing for the final exam. Please make sure that you have a notebook and pen handy, as we will be moving at a furious pace to cover the year. Please also have your anthology books for reference.

Final exam this Thursday....

I will be after school this Tuesday and Wednesday for anyone missing work or needing extra help on getting ready for the exam.