ENG404B: Honors British and World Literature (ELI-PUBLISHABLE) | Unit 12 : Semester Review and Test | Lesson 3 Student Guide Lesson 3: Semester Review, Session 1 Congratulations! You have finished reading the selections for this semester. Soon you will take the Semester Assessment. To prepare for the Semester Assessment, you should review the following: • The readings from this semester • The notes you took and the questions you answered in your Student Guide as you completed the lessons this semester • The online lessons and any materials provided in them Complete the activities in this lesson to help you get ready for the test. Lesson Objectives • Analyze literary elements in the selections. • Demonstrate mastery of the objectives covered in this semester's units. • Demonstrate understanding and interpretation of texts. • Evaluate your responses by comparing your work to the self-check answers. PREPARE Approximate lesson time is 60 minutes. Materials For the Student Journeys in Literature: British and World Classics - Volume D Self-Check Answers LEARN Activity 1: The Selections (Online) Instructions After you have finished reviewing the selections from this semester, answer the questions online. I answered ____ / 12 correctly on the first try. If you had an incorrect answer on your first try, use the space below to explain the correct answer in your own words. Activity 2: Analyze Literature (Online) © 2014 K12 Inc. All rights reserved. Copying or distributing without K12's written permission is prohibited. Page 1 of 4 ENG404B: Honors British and World Literature (ELI-PUBLISHABLE) | Unit 12 : Semester Review and Test | Lesson 3 Instructions Student Guide Questions Part 1 Answer the following questions in complete sentences: 1. Romantic poets often claimed that nature was a teacher to whom humans should play close attention. Why didthey think this was the case? What did they think humans could learn from nature? Use two poems you read as you explain your answers. 2. The speakers in Byron’s “When We Two Parted” and Keats’s “Ode on Melancholy” both experience deepsadness, yet the causes and the speakers’ reactions to this sadness differ. Why is each speaker sad, and what does each speaker suggest about sorrow? Use the poems to support your response. 3. Compare and contrast W.B. Yeats’s “The Second Coming” and “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death.” How arethe two works similar? How are they different? Why are both categorized as modernist poems? 4. What message does T.S. Eliot convey about alienation, isolation, and loneliness in “The Love Song of J. AlfredPrufrock”? What tools does he use to convey this message? 5. In what way does the unequal relationship between the representatives of a colonizing nation and the peoplethey colonize shape the plots of the stories told in the Cultures in Conflict unit? Choose two stories to use as you support your response. 6. In “Marriage Is a Private Affair” and the excerpt from Nectar in a Sieve, traditional cultures and more modern ways clash. Do the characters in these stories gain or lose more from the clash they experience? Use details from the stories to support your response. © 2014 K12 Inc. All rights reserved. Copying or distributing without K12's written permission is prohibited. Page 2 of 4 ENG404B: Honors British and World Literature (ELI-PUBLISHABLE) | Unit 12 : Semester Review and Test | Lesson 3 Part 2 Early in the semester, you read either Hard Times by Charles Dickens or Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. To prepare to answer a question about this novel on the test, review the novel, the lessons, and the Reading Guide. Then answer these questions: 1. Who are the main characters, and what conflict do they face? 2. How is the conflict resolved—if it is resolved—and how does the process of conflict resolution affect the maincharacters? 3. What do the conflict and resolution suggest to readers about a theme important to the author? Part 3 In the last part of the semester, you read 1984 by George Orwell, Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya, or Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. To prepare to answer a question about this novel on the test, review the novel, the lessons, and your Reading Guide. Then answer these questions: 1. Recall the themes of the novel that you found important for understanding it. Then identify the theme thatstayed with you longest, prompting you to think about it after having finished the novel. Explain that theme more fully. 2. Consider what it was about this theme that made it stay with you. In what ways do you find it to be relevant orto apply to your life? Why did you consider it to be worth your time and thought? © 2014 K12 Inc. All rights reserved. Copying or distributing without K12's written permission is prohibited. Page 3 of 4 ENG404B: Honors British and World Literature (ELI-PUBLISHABLE) | Unit 12 : Semester Review and Test | Lesson 3 Activity 3: Analyze Literature (Online) Instructions Print the Self-Check Answers and check your work from this lesson. Save your Student Guide so that you can use it to review what you have learned. © 2014 K12 Inc. All rights reserved. Copying or distributing without K12's written permission is prohibited. Page 4 of 4
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