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Consult The Writing Tree (thewritingtree.org) or
other grammar and usage sources as needed for the following items.
An Honors English 11 student should be able toÉ
1. Name 30 prepositions. Construct a sentence with a
prepositional phrase used as an adjective and a second sentence with a
prepositional phrase used as an adverb.
What is the comma rule for introductory prepositional phrases?
2. List the adjective questions. Understand the different forms of
adjectives (present and past participles, prepositional phrases, infinitives,
adjective clauses).
3. List the adverb questions. Understand
the different forms of adverbs (prepositional phrases, infinitives, adverb
clauses).
4. Know the definition, the formation of
the possessive, and the uses of a noun (subject, object, predicate
nominative). Understand the
different types of nouns (infinitives, gerunds, noun clauses).
5. List the different types of
pronouns. List the three cases of
personal pronouns and the uses for each case (nominative, objective,
possessive). Understand agreement
between pronoun and antecedent.
6. List the different types of
conjunctions. Understand the
punctuation rules with coordinating conjunctions.
7. List the principle parts of a verb. Explain
how the principle parts are used to form the twelve verb tenses. Explain the relationship between verb
tenses (e.g., when writing in the present tense narrative frame, use the
present perfect tense for past action).
8. List the four uses of the verb Òto
be.Ó
9. Identify and form the four sentence
types: simple, compound, complex, compound complex.
10. Identify and use verbals
(gerunds, participles, infinitives).
11. Identify and use clauses (noun,
adjective, adverb).
12. List and use the twelve comma rules.
Consult reference sources as needed for
the following items.
An Honors English 11 student should know
the dates for these historical itemsÉ
1. the Classical
Greek period
2. the Pax Romana
3. the fall of
Rome
4. Charlemagne
5. the Magna Carta
6. the Black
Death
7. fall of
Byzantium
8. Martin LutherÕs 95 theses
9. the Jamestown
colony
10. the American
and French revolutions
11. the
industrial revolution
12. publication
of The Communist Manifesto
13. publication
of The Origin of Species
Know
the following literary periods with representative authors and works from each
period É
1. The Renaissance
2. Enlightenment (Neo-classical)
3. Romantic (American Transcendental
Period)
4. Victorian
5. Realism
6. Naturalism