Dear class,
Sorry I didn't get this post up sooner. I know you have to pick and choose what you concentrate on from class to class.
The final this semester is an assessment of these things via multiple choice:
- correct application of literary terms: notably three recognized forms of irony, but also the range of terms that apply to drama (hubris, deus ex machina, chorus, protagonist, etc. as well as the unities and the structure of classic tragedy), and fiction (structure and features of literary works, such as characterization, plot, allusion, setting & atmosphere)
- knowledge of each author's life and environment, especially as they apply to his work. I'm including Shakespeare with Aldous Huxley, Charles Dickens, Sophocles, and Joseph Conrad.
- recognition of syntactic structure: parallelism, fragments, periodic sentences and the like (don't freak out: there aren't too many questions of this type)
We've put off the timed write until the new semester. Bring your Hamlet scripts, though, because we'll use any remaining time after the multiple choice to work Act III.
There will be several Hamlet questions on the test, but no one with a good understanding of the play as we've studied it so far will stub any toes on them.
I was behind on my class records, but have them just about up to date now. I'll be sending out progress reports as pdf's tomorrow a.m.
See you on Thursday.
JD
6 comments:
Thanks Mr. Duncan.
So no questions on book themselves besides Hamlet?
Thank you, Mr. Duncan, for posting this! This is most helpful.
It looks like there won't be any detailed questions about motifs / themes / other details about the books themselves? Is this correct? It's mainly the authors and how their lives pertain to the books?
See you on Thursday.
AND EVERYBODY! SOUND AND SENSE. Have some *sense* and bring the textbook to make sure your grade is safe and *sound*. HA. HA. HA. I crack myself up!
Thank you Mr. Duncan!
and thanks chris. I almost forgot about Sound and Sense.
I feel like a dirty grade monster asking this, but how much is the final weighted? If failed, can it significantly hurt a grade?
That was INDEED a refreshing final! I thank thee, Sir Duncan, for such a delight!
Are we going to read Hamlet Act III in class on Tuesday? Or would you like us to read it to ourselves and be prepared to discuss it in class (and then, move onto Act IV the same day)?
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