Date of Exam: Monday, 7 March 2011; Time: 9:00-10:50 am.
The core material of this course includes the assigned reading, lectures, student presentations, and class discussions up to and including the date of 2 March 2011, and students will be responsible for all of these on the midterm exam. The midterm accounts for 15% of your total grade in this course.The take-home (essay) section of the final exam accounts for 50% of your grade for the midterm exam. You may use your notes and texts for writing this section of the exam. The take-home essay must be word processed, free of mechanical errors, and printed on clean paper in best-quality ink. Late and/or e-mail submissions will not be accepted. Click here for the list of essay topics and requirements.
The in-class section of the final exam accounts for an additional 50% of your midterm exam grade in this course (for a total exam weight of 15%), and is open book only (no notes). This means that you may have with you the Longman Victorian Literature anthology, Gaskell's North and South, a print-out of the children's poems, Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. You may write in the margins of these texts, and use small post-its (less than 2 inches) to mark important passages. You may not write on the backs of the printout (you'll need to print out clean copies if you have already done so), nor may you use any other notes, texts, dictionaries, electronic devices, etc.
The in-class portion of the exam must be written in blue or black ink only. You must write clearly and legibly (I can't give credit for anything I'm not able read), and should save at least five minutes to proofread your work.
The final exam format will consist of three sections:
I. ESSAY (take-home). Due at the beginning of the exam period (50 points possible). Topics and instructions for preparing the essay are available here.
II. KEY TERMS (in-class; 20 points possible). You will be asked to write a brief overview (approximately one paragraph for each term) of TWO terms or phrases out of a choice of four or five, and to discuss the significance of each term to a text we have read. Your responses should incorporate brief textual examples as part of each discussion, and to make detailed reference to material from lectures, discussions, and or/class presentations.
III. IDENTIFICATION (in-class; 30 points possible). You will be asked to identify FIVE key quotes out of a choice of ten or so by providing all of the following: 1) the correct title of the work; 2) the full name of the author of the work; 3) a short (one or two sentence) description of the quote's context (this could be a brief description of who/what the quote is referring to or describing, or of the scene in which the quote appears); and 4) a brief analysis (about 200 words) of the quote's significance to the work as a whole (e.g. what significant theme, issue, or conflict this quote represents). Your responses should incorporate brief textual examples as part of each discussion, and to make detailed reference to material from lectures, discussions, and or/class presentations.
Students in need of accommodation for a documented disability, either temporary or permanent, should contact the UMD Access Center for information and assistance regarding University policies for Test Accommodations.
Total points possible for the midterm exam: 100 points.