AML 4213: Journeys to America
Summer 2011

REQUIRED EXAM#3

Exam#3’s format and type of questions will be the same as Exam#1 & #2.

It will cover everything from Franklin (including Franklin) through Irving--main readings, e-texts links, and lectures (including the “Wrap-Up Lecture”).  It will NOT cover the two films at the end per se.

This online Exam#3 is required and together with Exam#1 and Exam#2 later in the semester equals a total of 33% of your course grade.  There will be 20 questions or so on this exam (for a total of 100 points); most students finish it well within the 1-hour allotted time.

After each exam is taken, I carefully look at performance patterns to make sure there were no inadvertent faulty/unfair questions.  I do not curve scores, but do adjust as necessary by throwing out “bad” questions, if the performance pattern reveals such (e.g., if the top quartile of students do not get the “bad” question around 70% of the time).  So, please be reassured, although there will be a mix of easy and hard questions, I conduct a post-exam review to weed out exam-question outliers should there be any.

You get to Exam#3 by clicking on the “Assessment” icon on the far left of the Blackboard menu.  It will be available for taking between Saturday August 6th 9:00pm & Monday August 8th 11:59pm.

You must answer the questions within an allotted 1-hour time period.  Once you start, the clock begins to tick and cannot be turned off.  And you must save your answers and submit the exam 1 minute before midnight; otherwise the Blackboard system turns your exam into a rotten pumpkin.

Once the window for taking the exam closes, you can go to “My Grades” and by clicking on the exam title etc. see your score as well as, at the end of most questions, an explanation of correct/incorrect answers.

You are not expected to memorize dates or bullet-list type information in the Wikis..  But some of the questions will test your understanding of the basic historical contexts. 

Do not read my “Prof.” lectures at your own risk!

Only extraordinary, documented emergencies will be accepted for a Make-up Exam.  Prudence (fancy professor word!) would dictate you have a back-up computer plan (an FIU library or computer lab, Kinko’s, a friend’s, etc.) should your dog decide to eat your computer.

Should there be some major glitch with the Blackboard testing system: please do not email me individually.  Use the “General Topic” posting area (right below the area where you filled-in your mini-autobios.) in the Discussion area of the Blackboard menu. That way, all students will see that the glitch has been noted.

All best on this and whatever final exams you are taking this term, yours, Prof. Harvey