English: Do You Speak It?

English Exam: tomorrow at noon. I'm actually taking it after its scheduled time of 8 AM, but that won't help me. It will feature gems such as:

Discuss the use of point of view in Louise Erdrich's "Saint Marie (1934)." What effect does this use of point of view create? How is this appropriate to the effect of the story as a whole?

Discuss either "from Dispatches," or Dutchman as a postmodern work.

Discuss how the sense of human potential has changed over the course of the period we have studied. Pick a work from the Late Nineteenth Century section of the course and a work from the Postwar to Postmodern section. Compare their ideas about human potential that each work assumes in order to show us what has or has not changed.

And my personal favorite:

Discuss one of the works we've read in this section of the course using a significant quotation from Anzaldua's "La Frontera/Borderlands" as a focus. Apply the idea in the quotation to the work you've chosen.

The work mentioned in that last one was written half in Spanish.

Just don't ask me how I do.

May 01, 2002 - 08:22 AM