Semester Test
  Wednesday and Thursday

1st Semester Test, Part 1, Wednesday

The following readings are covered by this test:

Desperate Crossing (video)
“A History of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford
“A Model of Christian Charity” by John Winthrop
“Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House” by Anne Bradstreet
“A Narrative of the Capitivity of Mary Rowlandson” by Mary Rowlandson
The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
The Crucible by Arthur Miller

There will also be a grammar and usage section dealing with modifiers.

1st Semester Test, Part 2, Thursday

The following readings are covered by this test:

The Enlightenment (Revolutionary Period)
Romanticism (study the introduction to this literary period)
The Declaration of Independence
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Walt Whitman
A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The American Renaissance (study the introduction to this literary period)
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendantalism
Henry David Thoreau (Resistance to Civil Government)

There will be a grammar and usage section focusing on Active and Passive Voice

Advanced: These people do not need to take the semester final (already have an “A” for semester grade): Melissa, Jordan, Laura, Karissa, Christian, Erika, Tim, Mary. However, some of these are A-, so the semester final may help.

Grades
194-207 A (6)
191-193 A- (5)
185-190 B+ (8)
176-184 B ((5)
168-175 B- (9)
158-166 C+ (6)
138-155 C (7)
117-133 C- (8)
100-110 D+ (3)
88 - 100 D - (4)
-88 F (6)