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May 10, 2006
Final Exams Already?
Roberts, Ch.17 -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
My paper is on Flannery O'Connor, and we've beaten her work to death in class. Several important themes have returned time and time again in our discussions: religion and spirituality, tolerance and compassion vs. the lack thereof, race, class, and gender and how they interact, and the meaning of a handicap. While Roberts devotes a great deal of space to anticipating specific factual questions - characters, quotations, settings - I think in the context of a culminating exam for the entire course it would be more appropriate to have and we should expect to see the more general, comprehensive questions that he discusses in less detail. I think for the exam it is important to read each work for the overlying theme and to find examples that support that specific theme.
Posted by MeganRitter at May 10, 2006 03:38 PM