Checklist and Rubric for the Final Exam

Thursday, August 13, from 7-8:50 a.m. in B140 JFSB

“For the final examination, students will use language figures and linguistic details to write an original 10 page literary text and share a portion of it with class members in an oral presentation.”

1. Content Guidelines (12 points).
· Choose a literary genre of your choice: poem(s), short story, personal essay, proverbs, hymn lyrics.
· Create ten full pages of text, double-spaced: 10 poems, one page each; 2 poems, five pages each; 1 poem, story, or essay, ten pages; ten pages of proverbs; and so forth.
· Weave the text(s) with linguistic features and poetic formulas that we have studied or that you have discovered.
· Provide a paper copy of the text for the instructor and post a copy for the class at our blogspot.

2. Presentation Guidelines (10 points).

· Be prompt in arrival to the exam and stay for the whole time.
· Be respectful and attentive for all of the presentations.
· Read and comment on selections from your ten-page original text, taking no more than 20 minutes.
· Respond to comments and questions for no more than 5 minutes.
· Invite at least two people to attend the final: family, friends, roommates, teachers, or others. You receive points for inviting them, even if they cannot attend.

3. Purposes of the Final Exam.

· To consolidate the learning exercises and experiences that we have shared this semester.
· To apply some of the language features, poetic conventions, and philological traditions that we read about in the Watkins and Becker textbooks.
· To enhance writing skills and future writing projects by consciously using linguistic features in an original text.
· To “sing unto the Lord a new song” (Psalms 33:3; Isaiah 42:10; Revelation 5:9, 14:3)