Take-home Final Examination Foss 335B F11

Return to ENGL 335B, British Romantic Literature.

Take-home Final Examination
Your final examination will be an open-book take-home examination consisting of two parts.

PART I will be an essay response for which you will compose an essay-length answer to the following prompt [50 points]: “Select one of the three days from the Canonball calendar on which your own presentation was not scheduled. Analyze how two to four texts assigned on that day help to identify and illuminate a significant focus point for British Romantic Literature.”

PART II will be an essay response for which you will compose an essay-length answer, demonstrating your broad knowledge of British Romantic Literature, to the following prompt [50 points]: “Should one ask, ‘What is Romanticism?’ If so, delineate your answer to this question. If not, delineate why such a question cannot or should not be answered.”

You may choose to do either PART I or PART II (not both) as a collaborative essay with 1-3 of your classmates. I also am encouraging all of you to include a self-assessment as an optional PART III, in which you reflect upon your exam and let me know what you believe to be its strengths and weaknesses, and also, if you wish, what you learned (about Romanticism, about that period in history, about your world, about yourself) during the process of completing this project. You further are welcome to include a course evaluation as an optional (and, obviously, ungraded) PART IV, which I will not read until after I have submitted your final grade.

Your take-home is due by the end of your final exam period—Tuesday, April 26 at 2:30 p.m. You may turn it in earlier if you wish, but you are responsible for making sure I actually receive it.