For my 3:30pm-5:35pm students, you take the in-class final on Thursday.
How to prepare for final:
- Practice at a computer lab. Time yourself writing one paragraph.
- Practice writing sentences that include quoted lines from the poem.
- Divide up the 1 hour and 25 minutes into segments to pace yourself.
You are allowed to bring in a copy of the poem with notes written on the back side of the poem. Here is what I would include in my notes:
- Annotate poem on the front (as I have demonstrated in class), but do not write any complete paragraphs. Just write jotted thoughts, identify metaphors and other figures of speech (and write down a meaning over the word/phrase), define words. At end of poem, list a theme or two and pose a question or two.
- On back, write example of how to mechanically cite poetry lines (see the post for the differences between poetry and fiction)
- Write a word bank of key words that you want to use. (Besides "moral," for example, what are other words that describe the poem, its separate actions, its poetic techniques, etc.)
- Write short, non-sentence reminders of real examples that the poem inspires in you.
- Write an example 3rd person claim, as you will want to write the final with your point of view not shifting to first or second person.
- Write a reminder of CONTEXT in the introduction with a source, including mechanics of title and brief summary of poem's action
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