Week 9 Syllabus: finals

THE LAST ASSIGNMENTS FOR FIRST SEMESTER include your revision of the “Haroun crosses the threshold” paragraph, a revision that should have been posted onto Canvas. You can RESUBMIT the new draft right over the already graded version. The second assignment is your annotations of chapters 1 through 6 in Haroun & the Sea of Stories. See Mr. Easton with questions about those assignments, after the final.

Monday, December 18

• Independent reading.

• In small groups, students will add details to their setting map for the novel (illustration of the moon of Kahlani on the front). This assignment will be collected and graded when we are finished with the novel, approx. two weeks into January.

• HW: None.

TUESDAY, December 19

• FINALS: Both classes meet in room C-224. The final will begin at NOON, 12 pm.

• Bring pens, a pencil, water and snack (as needed) and your independent reading (to read quietly when done).

• The final is broken into three parts:

  • Reading and annotating a very short story (there will be audio);

  • Writing a paragraph about that same story (on paper)

  • 10 multiple choice, reading comprehension questions.

• When done with the final, students cannot leave the testing room. Bring something to read quietly when finished.

• Students with extended time will finish that in the official “extended-time” room in D Building starting at 1:35, after the final ends.

FOR NEXT SEMESTER (OVER WINTER BREAK)

• The next book we’re reading is the abridged epic poem, Homer’s Odyssey.

• YOU MUST ORDER THIS VERSION: Stanley Lombardo’s translation of The Essential Odyssey by Homer, ISBN# 0872208990. Note: this version has gold bars at the top and bottom of the cover. You need this edition, the ESSENTIAL Odyssey. It looks like this:

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