Due Monday, March 25, 2013

Your midterm will consist of two readings, with accompanying reading comprehension and short answer questions. In addition, you will be asked to evaluate one of the texts as Southern Gothic literature and write a text-to text comparison with something we have read as a class this year. Lastly, you will be tested on vocabulary from this quarter (everything from January and February).

For the practice test, the answer to #16 is A, not C.

• #20: Pretty much any piece of imagery referring to sight or smell
• #21: "Change of Heart" is a good title because she changes her opinion after she loses her job and a relationship. She also sees that at the heart of things, we all have "disappointment, hope, and love" in common.
• #22: Both selections use the first person point of view which shows the narrator's vulnerability in the midst of change.
• In "The Sky Blue Ball" the narrator is caught between not being a child and not being an adult. The reader experiences with the narrator the childlike excitement of the impromptu game of catch. 
• The narrator in "Change of Heart" recounts the traumatic period in her life when she lost all that was familiar: her job and her relationship. In that vulnerable moment, she sees her neighbors in a new light. Through the narrator's relating of her experience, the reader witnesses the sequence of events that cause her to both accept her neighbors and be accepted by them.

A final draft of your To Kill a Mockingbird essay is also due, printed, in MLA format.