Mid-term exam review sheet

If  you have lost your review sheet for your mid-term exam, you can print another one by clicking on the picture below. Remember, the completed review is worth five points extra credit on your exam. We went over the entire review sheet in class, so you will need to check your answers against mine or one of your classmates if you haven’t checked yours yet.

Essay for Mid-term exam

As a reminder:  The essay portion of your mid-term will be written in class on Thursday and Friday, December 12 & 13.  You may not work on this at home. I will have copies of Of Mice and Men available for you to use for your essay.  Please bring your graphic organizer and outline to class. 

The grade for your essay will be determined by the following:

10 points – completed graphic organizer and outline turned in with essay

5 points – an arguable thesis is present in the introduction

5 points – five-paragraph persuasive essay structure is followed

5 points – 3 supporting reasons are well-developed and supported with information and quotations from Of Mice and Men

Extra Credit:  Including at least 6 different sentence openers in each paragraph and including at least 3 different dress-ups in each paragraph will earn you up to 5 extra points.

***Please bring regular notebook paper and a pen or pencil to class to write your essay.  No typewritten essays will be accepted.  You must write this in class.  I want to know your thoughts, not the thoughts you can search on the internet.

Topic for essay for mid-term exam:

Choose one of the following themes and write a well-developed five-paragraph essay demonstrating how that theme is exhibited in Of Mice and Men. Make sure to include an arguable thesis statement in your introduction and quotations from the book in your supporting paragraphs.

1. friendship & moral responsibility

2. individuals & community

3. power vs. powerlessness

4. loneliness

5. The American Dream

Notes over “How to Write a Persuasive Essay”

Click on the picture to go to the notes over writing a persuasive essay.  We took these in class on December 3rd and 4th (Tuesday and Wednesday).

Notes and worksheet from Thursday, December 5

Here is a link to the powerpoint notes we took in class on Thursday.  These are notes over sentence structure (clauses, dress-ups, and sentence openers).  I am also linking the worksheet we did as homework (just in case you lose yours).