The Final Exam


As briefly noted in class today, your final will consist of three parts–acts, if you will–beginning with an essay...

Act One: Personal essay in two scenes.
Write a 2-4 page essay (typed, double-spaced) showing your personal application of Ecclesiastes 3:1-15. Or, another way of stating this: How does the passage apply (or not apply) to your life? The essay is to be original and free from commentaries or study notes about the passage. Again, we're following a major theme of this course: Give the text a good shake. Provide examples to explain your reasoning.
Turn in a first draft by Monday, November 3, 2003. In your second draft, revise your copy by employing as many of the Sentence Patterns (SP) in your essay as possible. You will note the number of the SP in the left margin of your final copy and turn in both drafts on Monday, November 10, 2003 by the beginning of class.
Assessment: 6-4 writing rubric with heavy emphasis on your ability to revise by using SPs.
(20% of final exam grade)

Act Two: 100 Words
You will tested on all 100 words from our vocabulary text on Tuesday, November 11, 2003. The test will be ScanTron, matching, and probably in groups of five words.
(20% of final exam grade)

Act Three: Literary Criticism focusing on Eight Works
You will need to demonstrate your ability to use each of the eight Literary Criticism lenses in analysis on any of the eight works studied in class. What this will look like will be a mystery. My suggestion is that you really know the Literary Criticism lenses and have a detailed Idea Machine write-up for each work. Tentative exam date is Thursday, November 13.
(60% of final exam grade)

Posted: Mon - October 20, 2003 at 09:22 PM        

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