Study Guide

12^th Grade Study Guide

Be familiar with all of the following stories/journals.  How do they connect to one-another?  The test will not have any surprises.  What we covered in class will be covered on the test.  Yes, you need to be familiar with all the vocabulary (from units 1-8).

Figurative/Literary Language

Monologue

Tone

Irony

Satire

Paradox

Journal Topics

Journal 25: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Kidder

Read Chapter 25; pages 261-279.  Write a coherent analysis of a part of the chapter.  Give two quotes to support your analysis.

Journal 24: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Kidder

Read pages 241-260.  Give a quote that demonstrates Farmer's attitude to those who imitate him.  Are there people it is okay to imitate?  Explain. How do Jim and Paul Farmer address politics/divisions?  Give an example. How does PIH work as an institution?  Give your assessment with one quote for support.

Journal 23: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracey Kidder

Read pages 211-237.  All the great religions of the world say, "love thy neighbor as thyself. My answer is, I'm sorry, I can't, but I'm gonna keep on trying." What do you think about this quote?  Explain one of Farmer's lexical/lexicon creations other than the H of G.  What purpose do these words serve?  Describe Alex Golfarb and Farmer's friendship. Give one quote to describe it.

Journal 22: Mountains Beyond Mountains

Read pages 181-192.  Apply the Matthew 25 verse to the chapter. "Inasmuch as you have done it unto the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me." How might this verse be beneficial?  How is it problematic? Give at least 2 quotes from the text.  Explain.

Journal 21: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Kidder

Read pages 129-141.  Describe Farmer and Jim Kim's relationship. How do the different characters/people in this chapters 14 and 15 function as a team?  What are their "team dynamics?"  What does the audience/reader/you learn about tuberculosis? At least 3/4 page journal.

journal 20: Mountains Beyond Mountains

Read pages 114-128. Give quotes about:  The U.S. involvement in Haitian politics and the relationship between war, disease, and health.  Then discuss your quotes with information from the book.  Explain.

Journal 19: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Kidder

Read pages 96-113.

Answer ALL of the questions.

What do you think about only needing "the bare necessities?"  How does Farmer do this?  Give an example

Use one of Aristides quotes.  What does he promote? Explain

Why do people get harassed by the government?  Is this right?

Journal 18: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracey Kidder

Due Friday. Read pages 85-95.  What is the difference between Farmer's work with the poor and work with the "intellectuals?"  What do you think about the differences in resources between people?  Why does this exist?

Journal 17: Mountains Beyond Mountains

Read pages 76-84.  How have anthropological studies proven to be benefical to his medical practice?  Give at least 2 examples from the chapter.  3/4 page minimum.

Journal 16: Mountains Beyond Mountains Kidder

Read pages 59-75. Discuss Farmer's character?  What is he drawn to?  Why might he have these interests? 

Write 1/2 page using at least one quotation. 

Journal 15: Kidder

Read pages 47-58.

How has Farmer's childhood impacted his life?  How has your own background influenced your life and your decisions?  Explain using 3 quotes from the story. 1 page journal.

Journal 14: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

Read Chapter 4 pages 33-44. How can you tell that Farmer is dissatisfied with the distribution of wealth in the world?  What are some of Farmer's main concerns?  Give three examples from the text.

Journal 13: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

Read pages 18-32.  What are some of the ways in which Farmer copes with the poverty around him?  In other words, how does Farmer see the beauty in life despite the suffering that surrounds him?  Give three examples from the text (quotes).   Why do you think Farmer chooses to live this way?  Can you see yourself living like Farmer?

Journal 12: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Kidder

Read pages 1-17 for monday.  Then answer the following question (the whole prompt) with a one page journal.

Paul Farmer finds ways of connecting with people whose backgrounds are different from his own.  How does Farmer do this?  Should all people attempt to practice similar methods? Find 2 examples from the text that you quote.

Journal 11 "Notes..."

What new human emotion/trait does the narrator express?  Why?

Also,  how does the narrator have "Battle Scars?"  In what way is he "at war with love?"

Journal 10

How does the narrator act towards Liza and Zverkov?  What does this tell you about his character?  How can you relate to him?

Journal 9

As the setting/perspective of the story changes, how does your perception of the narrator change?  Why?

Journal 8 "The Underground" Paradox

What does the reader learn about the mind state of the main character?  How does the main character use paradox?

Journal 7: Dostoevsky "The Underground"

Read pages 545-551 and answer the following questions.

 Who is the speaker?

 Where and when is this taking place?

 What’s going on in the scene?

 What do you learn about the speaker’s personality, emotions, or thinking?

 What makes this “performance” different from a poem, short story, letter, dialogue or article?

1 page journal

Journal 6: pg 236-246 of Candide. 1 page journal.Journal: What is the main message or theme of the story?

Journal 5: Read Candide until page 236.  1 page journal on satire.

Journal 4: Read until page 216 of Candide."What are examples of satire that Voltaire uses to critisize society?"

Journal 3: Read until page 200 of Candide. What is the tone of the story?

Journal 2: Read "Homeless" by Anna Quindlen on page 555-557 .Compare the tone in "Homeless" to the tone in "Angels with Dirty Faces." How do they conclude differently?  How does the difference impact the tone? 3/4 page journal.

VOCABULARY Unit 1-8

Unit 1

Acquisitive          arrogate               banal     belabor                                carping                 coherent             congeal

emulate               encomium          eschew                                germane              insatiable Intransigent invidious                largesse                reconnaissance                 substantiate       taciturn                temporize          tenable               

Unit 2

accost          animadversion          avid           brackish       celerity            devious         gambit       halcyon
histrionic          incendiary          maelstrom                myopic         overt          pejorative         propriety
sacrilege           summarily            suppliant         talisman         undulate

Unit 3

Articulate            dissemble           feckless                                propinquity        eulogy                  viscous                 decry

                Verdant               primordial           piquant                                nefarious             murky                   exhume

Cavort                   distraught           credence             unwonted           evince                   verbiage              utopia

Unit 4

Atrophy               bastion concord                consummate     disarray                                exigency              flotsam                 frenetic                                glean     grouse  incarcerate         incumbent          jocular                  ludicrous

Mordant              nettle    pecuniary            pusillanimous    recumbent         stratagem

Unit 5

Acuity   delineate             depraved            enervate             esoteric                                fecund  fiat         figment                                garner   hallow   idiosyncrasy       ignominy             mundane            nuance overweening     penchant             reputed                                sophistry             sumptuous         ubiquitous

Unit 6 abject      agnostic               complicity            derelict                 diatribe                                effigy    equity   inane     indictment                indubitable         intermittent       moot     motif     neophyte            perspicacity        plenary                 surveillance                sylvan   testy      travesty

Unit 7 allay bestial            convivial               coterie  counterpart        demur  effrontery           embellish

Ephemeral          felicitous              furtive  garish    illusory                  indigent               inordinate           jettison

Misanthrope      pertinacious       picayune              raiment

Unit 8 allege       arrant    badinage             conciliate             countermand    echelon                                exacerbate

Fatuous                                irrefutable          juggernaut          lackadaisical        litany     macabre              paucity

Portend               raze       recant   saturate               saturnine             slough