English+Final


 * What will be on your English Final? **

Good question! Your English final exam is a test of your skills. It's not about memorizing the exact short stories or poems we studied, or remembering which characters did what in our novel or play. It's to see if you can read, analyze, and write at a Grade 9 level.

Structure of the final exam June 2013: 1. Read a non-fiction article. Answer some multiple-choice questions. 2. Read a poem. Answer some multiple-choice questions. 3. Read a short story. Answer some multiple-choice questions and write a literary paragraph about the story (topic will be given to you). 4. Essay (choose from three or four topics and write the one you feel most comfortable writing about).

The multiple-choice questions are 23 in number. The literary paragraph is out of 12 (6 on the snapshot rubric x2) The essay is out of 30 (the full rubric).

Total: 65 marks (not that this really matters; the exam is worth 20% of your overall mark).

To figure out your final mark: (Term 3 grade x 0.3) + (Term 4 grade x 0.5) + (Final exam percentage x 0.2) = Final Percentage