Midterm Review

Here are topics to review for the midterm (multiple choice exam):

1. You should know the main idea, plot and characters of the pieces below--
A. Native / Colonial Americans (notes)
B. The World on the Turtle's Back
C. The Coyote and the Buffalo
D. Sinner's in the Hands of an Angry God
E. The General History of Virginia by John Smith
F. Benjamin Franklin
G. The Minister's Black Veil
H. The Raven

You should also know what the following authors wrote:
Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ernest Hemingway, and Robert Frost

2. SAT Vocabulary (A-T words): Absolve, Anomaly, Beseech, Conundrum, Deluge, Discredit, Empathy, Ephemeral, Fortuitous, Germane, Hiatus, Humane, Imbibe, Impetuous, Judicious, Karma, Knotty, Lucid, Magnanimous, Meliorate, Neophyte, Onus, Obsequious, Pretentious, Querulous, Rendezvous, Rudimentary, Sagacious, Taciturn, Travesty

3. Grammar Review (Comma Usage, Subject-verb agreement)

4. SAT Practice Questions (Sentence completion, grammar correction)

*If you create a review sheet for yourself and turn it in the day of your midterm I will give you extra points towards your test.