Week 9 Syllabus: finals

THE LAST ASSIGNMENTS FOR FIRST SEMESTER include your revision of the “Paper on Short Story” paragraphs, 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 Things Fall Apart. See Mr. Easton with questions about those assignments, after the final.

MONDAY, December 18

• Small group work, revising and re-posting the short story paragraphs.

• HW: None

TUESDAY, December 19

• 1ST PERIOD will take their final at 2 pm in room C-224.

• 4TH PERIOD will also take the final at 2 pm, but they will meet in B-313

• Bring pens, a pencil, water and a snack (as needed).

• 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 3:35, 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: Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey, ISBN# 9780393356250 (paperpack ed) . Note: You need this edition, none other, and YES it matters. It looks like this:

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