Extra Credit Assignment (10 pts.)

Due Friday, March 7

Read Kira-Kira by guest author Cynthia Kadohata (available for purchase in our school library for only $6). Complete all three of these activities. Type and double-space your work.

1. Kate gives one of the eulogies at Lynn’s funeral but sits down before she tells a special memory of Lynn. In a well-thought-out paragraph, write about a special memory of Lynn that Katie might have included in the eulogy.

2. Lynn always wanted to go to the ocean in California. Write a haiku titled “Kira-Kira” that Katie might write and dedicate to Lynn after her family returns from the west coast.

3. It is a Japanese custom to purchase souvenirs (or omiyage) from places the have traveled. Write a one-paragraph description of a souvenir that Katie might bring back from California to put at Lynn’s grave.

The Final!

You will have 50 multiple choice questions and one essay to write.

Here are the possible topics. You may use your book and notes for this portion of the exam.

1. Compare and/or contrast Smith’s ambivalent account of the Indians in Virginia with Cooper’s presentation of the Hurons in Deerslayer.
2. Compare and/or contrast the persuasive styles (techniques, tone) of Thomas Paine and Patrick Henry.
3. Show how sound devices—rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, repetition, etc.—increase the emotional effect of Poe’s poem “The Raven.”
4. Compare and/or contrast Poe’s story “The Fall of the House of Usher” with Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.” You may consider mood, character, plot, theme, and setting.