Semester 1 Study Guide

Question 1

Which lines suggest that the speaker (“The Road Not Taken”) believes he will one day regret having taken the road he did?

Answer 1

“I shall be telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence, two roads diverged, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

Question 2

Which excerpt from “The Scholarship Jacket” by Marta Salinas demonstrates the reflection phrase of the narrative?

Answer 2

paragraph 27…

Question 3

What is the theme of “The Scholarship Jacket”?

Answer 3

The theme of “The Scholarship Jacket” is to stand up for what you believe in.

Question 4

Find the excerpt in “The Scholarship Jacket” that begins, “I recognized the voices: Mr. Schmidt, my history teacher, and Mr. Boone…” How does the author show Mr. Schmidt’s point of view?

Answer 4

By allowing the narrator to overhear his conversation with the math teacher, Mr. Boone in the first person.

Question 5

How does the narrator feel about Ms. Conway?

Answer 5

At first the narrator feels Ms. Conway is unfair, ugly, and cruel. Later on, he likes her because she lets him take a book home and that sparked his love of reading.

Question 6

How does Mr. Lasher persuade Walter to do better in school?

Answer 6

He went home with Walter and spoke with his mother. He convinced him his reading ability and good scores made him special.

Question 7

What word best describes Walter’s emotion in reflecting back on his experience in sixth grade?

Answer 7

grateful

Question 8

One the second page of the narrative, what is the first bolded word? What does it mean?

Answer 8

volatile = unstable and explosive

Question 9

Quote where it states that Imma is uncomfortable with her name.

Answer 9

“I figured that I wasn’t popular because of my weird name.”

Question 10

What is a coordinate adjective? (page 41)

Answer 10

A coordinate adjective is two or more words that equally modify the same object.

Question 11

Write an example of a coordinate adjective.

Answer 11

I am really enjoying this hot, chocolatey cocoa.

I am really enjoying this chocolatey, hot cocoa.

Question 12

Find the page in your book with three types of leads.

Answer 12

page 34;
reaction
dialogue
action

Question 13

What is a reaction/thinking lead?

Answer 13

A reaction/thinking lead is when an author opens a narrative with a character thinking or reflecting on an event.

Question 14

What are 4 elements of a myth?

Answer 14

1. explain a natural phenomenon
2. teach important lessons about life
3. include super-humans or gods/goddesses
4. teach morals about human weakness

Question 15

What is the climax of the Greek myth “Phaethon”?

Answer 15

The climax of the myth of Phaethon is when Zeus throws a lightning bolt at him and kills him.

Question 16

Read the portion of Phaethon that begins with, “The race was very close. then the yellow-haired one spurted ahead and won the race. The loser was very angry…You’ll see me alright. Farewell.” What does the dialogue reveal about Phaethon?

Answer 16

Phaethon is competitive, arrogant, headstrong, reckless, a show-off.

Question 17

Find and quote what Apollo fears about Phaethon’s actions.

Answer 17

“Yes, I promised, foolish lad. And that promise is a death warrant.”

Question 18

What are some characteristics that Arachne and Phaethon share?

Answer 18

Both Arachne and Phaethon like to brag. They also do not listen to advice. They are both very headstrong.

Question 19

Why does Athene turn Arachne into a spider?

Answer 19

Athene turns Arachne into a spider because she offended her. She made a tapestry showing the gods doing evil things. She was also upset because Arachne claimed to be equal to her, a goddess.

Question 20

How does the resolution of the Greek myth “Arachne” by Olivia E. Coolidge address the central conflict?

Answer 20

The central conflict is that Arachne thought she was equal to a god. The Greeks saw the spiders and remembered that they should not claim they are equal to the gods.

Question 21

What is a dependent clause?

Answer 21

A dependent clause is not quite a sentence even though it has a subject and verb; supplies independent clause with additional information

Question 22

What is a independent clause?

Answer 22

A group of words that express a thought and can stand alone as a sentence.

Question 23

What’s a pronoun?

Answer 23

A pronoun takes the place of a noun to make the sentence sound better. Ex: John ate John’s burger./John ate HIS burger.

Question 24

What’s an antecedent?

Answer 24

The word the pronoun replaces.

Question 25

What questions do adjective/articles answer?

Answer 25

• Which one?
• What kind?
• How many?
• Whose?

Question 26

What can adjectives/articles modify?

Answer 26

nouns

Question 27

What parts of speech are articles?

Answer 27

adjective

Question 28

What are the three articles? Remember, they act like adjectives and there are only three.

Answer 28

a
an
the

Question 29

What questions to adverbs answer?

Answer 29

How?
When?
Where?
Why?
To what extent?

Question 30

What can adverbs modify?

Answer 30

adjectives and other adverbs

Question 31

What’s a direct object complement?

Answer 31

what a direct object is describing

Question 32

What questions do direct object complements answer?

Answer 32

what or who

Question 33

What parts of speech can direct object complements be?

Answer 33

noun, pronoun