Honors 11 Exam Study Guide

1. When Their Eyes Were Watching God begins, Janie is
2. Why does Janie leave her first husband?
3. On the store porch, why does Janie break her silence?
4. What does Jody do after Janie insults him in front of the other men?
5. Why does Janie reject so many suitors after Jody’s death?
6. How do Janie’s black friends act toward her during her trial?
7. Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die” is written in
8. Harlem Renaissance poets are NOT typically characterized by their use of
9. Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” compares rivers to the speaker’s
10. Langston Hughes traces his ancestry to its earliest roots by the
11. Langston Hughes expresses the burden of
12. “I Too” is a response to
13. “I Too” most expresses
14. In Catch-22, which character is falls violently in love with a whore but is tragically killed at the La Spieza mission?
15. Which officer enjoys shooting field mice and refuses to engage in evasive action during missions?
16. Who tries to kill Yossarian with a knife after hearing about Nately's death?
17. What happens on the mission for which Yossarian receives a medal?
18. Major Major’s rise to rank suggests the ____________________ of authority.
19. Which city does the squadron bomb when Yossarian refuses to participate?
20. Why will Luciana and Yossarian not get married?
21. What is Kid Sampson doing when he gets sliced in half?
22. Who does Yossarian pretend to be in the hospital?
23. The Catch-22 mandates
24. Milo’s syndicate is financially strapped because he over-invests in
25. Orr escapes to
26. Which character unashamedly admits his corrupt pre-war civilian life?
27. What is Yossarian’s excuse for returning from the first mission to Bologna?
28 Who says: “It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.”
29. Who says: “What’s good for M & M Enterprises is good for the country.”
30. What makes Yossarian question the existence of God?

Honors English 11 Works List (in progress)

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
Arthur Miller's The Crucible
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance
Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," "Masque of the Red Death," and "Fall of the House of Usher"
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
Ambrose Bierce's "Chickamauga" and "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
Langston Hughes's "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "I, Too"
Claude McKay's "If We Must Die"
Joseph Heller's Catch-22
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

NCSU Oral Presentations Rubric

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Music Education: May 2008 Mix Tape

If you are interested in a mix cd of the following tunes, bring me a blank CDR.

Number- Song- Time- Artist- Album- Year Published

01 East Mountain Joint 5:29 MV & EE With The Bummer Road Green Blues 2007
02 Celestial Titanic 3:27 Who's Your Favorite Son God Out Of Body Diva 2006
03 Luck 8:24 Religious Knives Resin 2008
04 Yesterday 1:11 J Dilla Jay Love Japan 2008
05 Clash 8:34 Offonoff Clash 2008
06 Engine Of Ruin 6:28 Earth The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull 2008
07 Sunset 6:29 Crush The Junta The Disappeared 2008
08 Easy Prey 2:14 Retribution Gospel Choir Retribution Gospel Choir 2008
09 Sweedeedee 5:22 Michael Hurley & Pals Armchair Boogie 1970
10 Behind The Skies 7:19 Blues Control Puff 2008
11 You Really Got A Hold On Me 3:59 She & Him Volume One 2008
12 8mmsweetbitter 6:00 Jarboe & Justin Broadrick J2 2008
13 Coming To Get You 7:28 Six Organs Of Admittance Shelter From The Ash 2007
14 The Devil's A Dork (The Sea Told Me) 5:12 TK Webb Living Bridge 2008

Honors English 11 Vocab List week 15

The first number designates the Catch-22 chapter. The second designates the page number from the Scribner Paperback Fiction edition.

01. putrescent (2 - 26)
02. vehemently (29)
03. enumerated (29)
04. retrospective (adj.) (29)
05. ravenously (30)
06. succulent (30)
07. spatulate (30)
08. tittered (3 - 31)
09. interminably (31)
10. disaffiliated (32)
11. incandescent (33)
12. populously (33)
13. rumpus (33)
14. reprovingly (33)
15. lecherous (33)
16. dissipated (33)
17. avid (33)
18. bonanza (34)
19. multitudinous (34)
20. jurisdictional (35)

Honors English 11 Vocab Week 15

This week's words come from the first and second chapters of Catch-22.

01. modifiers (1)
02. proscribing
03. salutations
04. ethereal
05. echelon
06. stifling
07. tepid
08. expurgating
09. insignia
10. ecstatically
11. diffident
12. beamed
13. conciliating
14. glutinous
15. vortex
16. pedantic
17. derogated
18. epitome
19. infundibuliform (2)
20. apoplectic

CP English 10 Things Fall Apart Webquest

This webquest is similar to the others in that you will research the culture we are studying in the text (Ibo/Igbo). It is different in that instead of creating a Powerpoint presentation, you will create a four-page magazine in the style of National Geographic. You can access the webquest here.

Hon. English 11 Vocab Week 14

From our edition of Of Mice and Men:

01. morosely (4)
02. droned (6)
03. brusquely (8)
04. pantomime
05. reluctantly (9)
06. imperiously
07. anguished (11)
08. scoff (17)
09. scourges (18)
10. liniment (19)
11. mollified (24)
12. pugnacious (25)
13. gingerly (25)
14. ominously (27)
15. absorbedly
16. derogatory
17. flounced (29)
18. plaintively
19. bridled (31)
20. apprehensive (32)