2016

8th grade

Reading Mid-term Exam

Study Guide

**This is not a working study guide. This only tells you what you should go

back and pull from your previous units. You can re-write information on

notecards, looseleaf, quizlet, or whatever method suits your study style

best.

Short Stories—

Vocabulary—matching and fill in the blank

Elements and literary devices handouts—know definitions

In addition to the definition, be able to distinguish between the 2

types of conflict, the 3 types of irony, and hyperbole and oxymoron.

Q&A handout from “The Bet”—fill in the blank with a VERY short

answer

Q&A handout from “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”—fill in the blank

with a VERY short answer and multiple choice

Short story practice sheet—multiple choice

True/False questions from “The Open Boat”

Multiple choice questions from “God Sees the Truth but Waits”

You may want to reread/skim the stories to refresh your memory.

You will not have to plot a story on a plot chart, but reading over

the plot charts will help you remember the story!

Animal Farm

Q&A and quizzes from all chapters—multiple choice questions from

those handouts

Vocabulary—multiple choice

Vivacious

Emboldened

Crucial

Pre-eminent

Contemptuously

Quotations—fill in the blank with the character’s name

Characters—matching (be able to distinguish between the

neighboring farmers Pilkington and Frederic)

Maya Angleou

Vocabulary—fill in the blank

Multiple choice from the 3 chapters that we read in class—use

study questions and quiz to study.

Foreign Phrases—

French foreign phrases commonly used in English list one—matching

Au revoir

Avant-garde

Bete-noir

C’est la vie

Carte blanche

Cause celebre

Coup de grace

Coup d’etat

Déjà vu

Enfant terrible