ENG 2D1 Written Exam Info

It will be very much a skills-based rather than a content-based evaluation.The written exam will be worth 15% of the final grade (not 30% as in some other courses). The first question will be a sight passage (a short story) that you have not seen before. This will be a reading comprehension test in which the students will be asked to apply reading skills and knowledge of literary terms (theme, protagonist, setting etc) to an unfamiliar work. Students will also be asked to relate the story to other works covered in the course. The second part of the test will be a literary essay in which the students will be asked to apply their understanding of the works covered in the course (memoirs, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet, the small group novels, the independent study and the "4th R" stories) in essay form. There will not be any specific content memorization questions on the test.