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Sunday, April 6, 2014

2nd Trimester Exam Outline

English 10
Second Trimester

Literature

Romanticism and Transcendentalism
The Devil and Tom Walker” - Washington Irving
“Thanatopsis” - William Cullen Bryant
“The Raven” - Edgar Allan Poe
“The Chase” from Moby Dick - Herman Melville
“I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” - Emily Dickinson
“Because I Not Stop for Death” - Emily Dickinson
“Song of Myself” (Canto I) - Walt Whitman
“A Noiseless Patient Spider” - Walt Whitman

Local Color and Realism
“The Outcasts of Poker Flat” - William Harte
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” - Mark Twain

Realism and Naturalism
“To Build a Fire” - Jack London
The Adventures of Hucleberry Finn - Mark Twain\

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Vocabulary
Lessons 21-36

Spelling
Lists 13-21

Grammar (Ch. 21-25)
Capitalization
End Marks and Commas
Semicolons and Colons
Italics, quotation marks, and ellipsis points

Apostrophes, hyphens, dashes, parenthesis, brackets