Mid Term Exam

The Mid Term exam is during our regular class time on Thursay, March 5, 2009. Today I passed out a handout with instructions for the take home essay portion of the exam. The assignment sheet is posted on this blog if you didn't receive it.

The in-class portion of the exam will include:
1. Quote identification: I will provide a list of authors and texts. You will be presented with quotes from the various works we have studied this semester. I will not try to trick you; it should be obvious where the quote comes from if you have read and studied the texts. You will match the author and the text to the quote.

2. Then you will select a specific number of quotes to discuss in more detail. for each quote, you will need to tell me
a. what does the quote mean (interpret it)?
b. why is it significant to the text it appears in?
c. why is it significant to the time period we have been studying?

Please let me know if you have any further questions. We will be doing a review for the exam on Tuesday.

Change to Readings

I have determined that we probably will not get all the way through Equiano today, so I have made the following changes to the course schedule:

2/12-Discuss Equiano
2/17-finish discussing Equiano
2/19-discuss Rowlandson
2/24-Wollstonecraft, & Shen Fu
(I am dropping the Swift & Montagu poems)
By 2/26 we should be back on schedule reading Rousseau and Locke

Let me know if you have any questions!

Office Hours Change

I have had to change my office hours for the semester. My new office hours are as follows:

Tuesday and Thursday from 1:00-5:00
Wednesday and Friday from 11:30-12:30

Of course, you can always schedule an appointment if these times don't work for you.