Your semester final makes up 10% of your overall grade, the other 90% coming evenly from the first and second quarters. Your final will consist of three parts: A comprehensive review of the vocabulary chapters 1-7, a comprehensive objective exam of the material we have studied this year in class, and an essay exam.
The vocab exam will consist of 100 questions and be worth a total of 25 points. Simply go over the words we have studied in chapters 1-7.
The objective exam will be a 45 question exam worth 45 points. You should use your notes as well as They Say I Say and Models for Writers to prepare for this exam. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following: the various rhetorical devices we have studied this year, the lead and conclusion techniques we have covered, the seven step essay process we have engaged in, the reading comprehension strategies we have practiced, and the techniques for citing sources we have covered - both in-text and blocked citations. As I said earlier, every answer on the final exam is in your notes.
Finally, you will write an essay in class worth 100 points. You will be assigned a mode (e.g. definition, narrative, cause and effect, etc.) at random, but you must come up with the topic. You must also bring in three pieces of research about your topic written down on paper with your source cited, and integrate at least one piece of information using either an in-text or blocked citation into your essay. For example, say you choose the topic of "Dogs". You will need to find three pieces of information about dogs and bring that information written down to the final (you will hand it in - it is worth 30 points, and must fit on a single sheet of paper). You will then be assigned a mode to write in, which will shape your essay. If you're assigned a narrative essay, you might tell the story of a famous dog, or of a dog you owned. If you're assigned a cause and effect essay, you might explain the positive effects dog ownership has on people. Or if you were assigned a definition essay, you might write about how it is difficult to define what a "good dog" is because that terms means so many different things to so many different people. This is one example, and I suggest you put together contingency plans for each possible genre of essay you might be assigned.
So, to sum up: Your final is 10% of your semester grade. The vocab exam is worth 25 points, the objective exam is worth 45 points, the essay is worth 100 points, and the research you do for the essay and hand in is worth 30 points, for 200 total.
The day we return from break, we will take some time in small groups to review for the final, so be prepared for that as well. Let me know if you have questions.
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