I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE you to use focus view for writing your exam tomorrow.
Doing this keeps you focused on only your exam, and not on peripheral distractions at the margins of your screen.
Good luck. Get plenty of rest.
21 Monday May 2018
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inI STRONGLY ENCOURAGE you to use focus view for writing your exam tomorrow.
Doing this keeps you focused on only your exam, and not on peripheral distractions at the margins of your screen.
Good luck. Get plenty of rest.
17 Thursday May 2018
Posted general information, Uncategorized
inThe first inside page of your exam appears below. Please ask, if you have any questions about what you will be asked to sign. Thank you.
Exam Preamble. May 2018
Acknowledgments: Philosophy and Policy
You need to recognize your own interpretations. Knee deep in the digital revolution, you need guided experience of meaningful struggle because the media-saturated culture is relentlessly telling you what to think.
Struggle is natural. Everyone has his or her own struggles. Don’t run away from your intellectual struggles by borrowing someone else’s solution. Stay with the problem. Work through it. I want to know your ideas, your own way of seeing things.
Plus, it is unfair and dishonest to present someone else’s ideas as your own, when you have found them in a source other than your own mind, our class discussions or the literature we have been studying.
I know the creative ways you respond to various questions. I know this because I have read your earlier writings. Creative, confident and honest students make a difference in this world. When you clearly express your individual, independent perspectives, the world grows smarter and stronger.
I confirm that I have read and understand the above paragraph.
Also, I understand that if I should access any online source(s), which Mr. Brown discourages, I am responsible for acknowledging the source(s) in the acknowledgment-footer of my exam. Failure to do so will result in an exam failure and further disciplinary action.
Student signature___________________________________________(date)______________
17 Thursday May 2018
Posted general information
inThe exam looks like this:
poetry section (20%)
Know the poetry terms in your poetry folder’s table of contents, from both semesters. Be ready to (1) identify a term in a given poem (2) explain how the device contributes to the overall poem or (3) create an example of a term in an original poem or short set of lines.
11-part-paragraph response on The Samurai’s Garden (30%)
Choose one of the available questions to be answered in a single paragraph. Questions will be derived from some of the critical thinking skills named and illustrated across the front of Groesbeck 410.
essay section addressing The Kite Runner and Macbeth (50%)
In a multi-paragraph essay, clearly state and develop a response to one of several possible questions. Each question concerns some area of overlap between these two works. For example, one work is a play written for the stage, while the other is novel meant to be experienced by individual readers? How does this affect the two works’ treatment of a similar element–for example, the theme of conscience, or fate; or the development of similar character traits; or the effect of setting on the characters?
Bring no books to the exam. Just your laptop. A quote bank will be provided, based on collection from past years. If you anticipate finishing early and would like to do some pleasure reading until the exam period ends, bring your book.
How do I prepare? Based on the above description, practice generating possible questions and responses. Do this on your own, or with a classmate. If you do this with a classmate, make possible questions then switch and respond and assess each other’s responses.
I will host a review session in the classroom from 1-2pm on Mon May 21, the day before our exam.
Between now and then, as always, if you have a question, ask.
14 Monday May 2018
Posted general information
inWednesday May 16 is the deadline for:
submitting already-approved revisions
emailing passages from The Kite Runner or Macbeth that you suggest we add to the current quote bank
07 Monday May 2018
Posted general information, writing
inThe revision protocol below contains deadlines for application and submission. Both deadlines have changed. The new deadline for applying to revise is Wed May 9, 3pm. The new deadline for submitting revisions to TURNITIN is Wed May 16.
It is still true of the protocol that you may revise one assignment at a time. Do not start a new revision application, until I have scored the previous revision.
SPECIAL NOTE: YOU ARE ELIGIBLE TO REVISE A SECOND ASSIGNMENT ONLY AFTER HAVING COMPLETED THE FIRST REVISION. A REVISION IS COMPLETE, ONCE YOU HAVE RETURNED THE ANNOTATED RUBRIC.
03 Thursday May 2018
So far, the exam looks like this:
poetry section (20%)
Know the poetry terms in your poetry folder’s table of contents, from both semesters. Be ready to (1) identify a term in a given poem (2) explain how the device contributes to the overall poem or (3) create an example of a term in an original poem or short set of lines.
11-part-paragraph response on The Samurai’s Garden (30%)
Choose one of the available questions to be answered in a single paragraph. Questions will be derived from some of the critical thinking skills named and illustrated across the front of Groesbeck 410.
essay section addressing The Kite Runner and Macbeth (50%)
In a multi-paragraph essay, clearly state and develop a response to one of several possible questions. Each question concerns some area of overlap between these two works. For example, one work is a play written for the stage, while the other is novel meant to be experienced by individual readers? How does this affect the two works’ treatment of a similar element–for example, the theme of conscience, or fate; or the development of similar character traits; or the effect of setting on the characters?
Bring no books to the exam. Just your laptop. A quote bank will be provided, based on collection from past years.
How do I prepare? Based on the above description, practice generating possible questions and responses. Do this on your own, or with a classmate. If you do this with a classmate, make possible questions then switch and respond and assess each other’s responses.
I will host a review session in the classroom from 1-2pm on Mon May 21, the day before our exam.
Between now and then, as always, if you have a question, ask.
If the exam starts looking significantly different from this description, I will notify you with a follow-up blog post.
30 Monday Apr 2018
Posted general information, homework, Samurai's Garden
inThis novel, since we will have class time to start reading this week’s section, “Autumn.”
03 Tuesday Apr 2018
Posted general information, homework, vocabulary
inThe first of the last five membean assignments starts this week (Mon Apr 2 – Sun Apr 8).
The final membean assignment is for the week of Mon Apr 30 – Sun May 6.
26 Monday Mar 2018
Posted general information, vocabulary
infor real
08 Thursday Mar 2018
Posted general information, Macbeth
inIf you need another copy of your assigned group’s instructions, use this link.