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Standards Covered:

ELAWLRL2 The student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of theme in world literature.

ELAWLRL1 The student demonstrates comprehension by identifying evidence and main ideas in a variety of texts representative of different genres and using evidence as a basis of interpretation: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, dramatic literature.

ELAWLRL3 The students deepens understanding by relating literary works to contemporary context or historical background, as well as works from other ti

Essential Question(s):

What are the major themes of a Shakespearian Tragedy?

How do the characters on the play Othello express motivation?

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Standards Covered:

ELAWLRL2 The student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of theme in world literature.

ELAWLRL1 The student demonstrates comprehension by identifying evidence and main ideas in a variety of texts representative of different genres and using evidence as a basis of interpretation: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, dramatic literature.

ELAWLRL3 The students deepens understanding by relating literary works to contemporary context or historical background, as well as works from other ti

Essential Question(s):

What are the major themes of a Shakespearian Tragedy?

How do the characters on the play Othello express motivation?

Essential Question(s):

How do our past and present experiences shape our identities?

Standards Covered this Week:

LAWLRL4The student employs a variety of writing genres to demonstrate a comprehensive grasp of significant ideas in selected literary works. The student composes essays, narratives, poems, or technical documents

 ELA12W1 The student produces writing that establishes and appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a focus, and signals closure.

ELA12W2 The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres: narrative, expository, persuasive, technical, and uses research and technology to support writing.

ELAWLRL2 The student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of theme in world literature.

Essential Question(s):

What are the class expectations for me this school year?

How do our past and present experiences shape our personal identities?

What is a college essay?

Standards Covered This Week:

ELAWLRL4The student employs a variety of writing genres to demonstrate a comprehensive grasp of significant ideas in selected literary works. The student composes essays, narratives, poems, or technical documents

World Lit Syllabus.doc

World Literature

Final Exam

Study Guide

Spring 2011

The Setup:

70 multiple choice questions

30 point essay

2 Critical Reading Passages

Questions on the works below

Kite Runner

Be able to identify:

-Amir -Ali -Baba -Assef -Sohrab -Hassan -Soraya -Rahim Khan

Be familiar with

- How is Baba a generous person?

-How does Amir redeem himself?

-Why does Baba challenge the Russian Soldier?

- Why does Hassan return to Kabul with Rahim Khan?

-How are Hassan and Sohrab alike?

-How does Amir feel about Soraya's past relationship?  Why?

-What are the results of the Taliban invasion of Afghanistan?

Things Fall Apart

Be able to identify:

-Okonkwo -Nwoye -Obierika -Enzinma

Othello

Be able to identify: -Emilia -Cassio -Iago -Rodrigo -Brabantio -Bianca -Montano -Gratiano

Vocabulary

Obstinacy, trepidation, withered, permeate, presumptuous, relic, hemorrhage, eccentric                                                                 

Random Grammar Questions

Essay Question Choices (Choose 1):

Choice 1)

Khaled Hosseini vividly describes Afghanistan, both the privileged world of Amir's childhood and the stricken country under the Taliban. How did his descriptions differ from ideas that you may already have had about Afghanistan? What cultural differences become evident in the American passages of the novel? How easy do the Afghans find it to settle in the U.S.?  Compare the social structures of Amir's life in Afghanistan vs. those encounters in America.

Choice 2)

It is Amir's dearest wish to please his father. What fuels this wish? To what extent does he succeed in doing so and at what cost? What kind of man is Baba? How would you describe his relationship with Amir and with Hassan? How does that relationship change, and what prompts those changes?

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Spring 2011 Final Study Guide.doc 

Chattahoochee High School

Spring 2011 End-Of-Course-Test (EOCT) Schedule

Week of May 9, 2011

(EOCT Courses: Math 1, Math 2, Biology, Physical Science, 9^th Lit.)

Chattahoochee High School

Week of May 16, 2011

Spring 2011 End-Of-Course-Test (EOCT) Schedule

(EOCT Courses: American Lit, US History, Economics)