Journeys to America

Spring 2002

Prof. B. Harvey

Final Instructions

Because

--many students are still working on their essays

--and class will be canceled on the 15th

--and I want you to have time to review and consider the option below

I have decided to cut "Jasmine" from our syllabus.  If you have already bought it, and the book store will not accept a return, I will reimburse you

TRADITIONAL FINAL

--Monday, April 22, 6:25-9:05 (exam will, in fact, last about one hour) in our regular classroom

--the exam will be short fill-in-the-blank type questions (or one sentence responses) reflecting basic issues (aesthetic, cultural, or plotwise), but it is not intended as a trivia contest or to trick you

--assuming that you have diligently read the books/works, the final should be relatively easy, not requiring intensive study

--I do not have in mind any arbitrary cut off for an "A", "B", "C" grade; I will see how everybody does and use a semi-curve method of grading

--readings you are responsible for:

Shakespeare, The Tempest

Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity

Equiano, The Life of Olaudah Equiano

Franklin, Autobiography

Ashbridge, Autobiography

Irving, "Rip"

Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

Black Elk Speaks

Cather, My Antonia

OPTION

--convince me that you've read/gone to the "Go" sites or that you can interconnect a wide number of the readings and the issues/themes in them

--do so via a conversation with me, or via a reading catalog that comments briefly on an adequate number of the sites, or via a digest/compilation of my summaries, etc.

--if you have read the books/works carefully, this option would not be the sensible, efficient choice (although it would be the much sounder learning choice)