Final Exam Preparation
American Literature 2: Fall 2015
Faye Barham, Instructor: 601.906.2010
Office Hours: 7:00-8:00 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday
Final Exam: Available Monday through Friday of next week.
The best way to prepare is to start with the Final Exam Notes-2 in the last module. It tells what to expect and what to focus on. Remember that I do not ask dates or specific information about the writers, but I do want you to know specifics about the assigned readings of their works.
There are no fill-in-the-blanks, just short discussion and long essay. One thing you should do is to pick out your two or three favorite works in each module, poems included, and review specific episodes and characters so that you can write well and knowledgably about them.
You do not need to review your quizzes because there are no questions from the quizzes on the final, much of the same material, but not same questions.
Finally, the long essay question is detailed in the link above. You should be able to get all the points, or at least most of the points for the essay, which counts almost half the test, by studying and planning. It requires that you refer specifically to at least nine different works in the essay, different writers, etc.