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Owning the Question!

Owning the Question!. Looking at the exam questions more carefully!. 7. Writers of fiction do not always relate events in chronological order. In at least two works you have studied, explore the effects of telling the story in a non-chronological manner.

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Owning the Question!

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  1. Owning the Question! Looking at the exam questions more carefully!

  2. 7. Writers of fiction do not always relate events in chronological order. In at least two works you have studied, explore the effects of telling the story in a non-chronological manner. • This was not a question you should have answered! • There is often a question that simply does not lend itself up to the works studied… steer clear of them • However, those who did answer it, contrasted The Sorrow of War with Perfume, and thus, if written well, you may have responded to “most of the main implications of the question” or “some of the main implications” • At best you could only get a 3 in responding to the question, and after that I tried to be lenient on the other descriptors that dealt with responding to the question…

  3. 8. The memorable impact of novels and short stories arises from the careful and often brilliant creation of detail by their writers. Using at least two writers you have studied, explore the role and impact of some significant details in the narratives. • Many looked at simply anything in the story, from setting to characterization – these aren’t necessarily “details” • “Details” refers to smaller elements! This question screams for a look at motifs and symbols, just what we’ve worked on all year! • To do best here, you should have chosen details from the works that aligned some way, i.e.Grenouille’s obsession with perfume and Kien’s obsession with writing

  4. 9. Some writers select a narrative voice that sharpens or clarifies their stories; others choose a narrative voice that mystifies or misleads. How and to what effect have at least two of the writers you have studied employed narrative voice? • You needed to make clear if the narrative voice “sharpens or clarifies” or “mystifies or misleads” • You also needed to explain WHY the author would do this • Be precise in your terminology -- many of you weren’t specific about the TYPE of “narrative voice” • SOW = limited omniscient perspective, shift at the end to first person • Perfume = consistent full omniscient perspective • Murakami = all Elephant stories were first person perspective

  5. The Good News! • Your grades have been curved! • The grade you see on your rubric has been raised by one grade, i.e.B = B+ • This accounts for the fact that you are juniors being scored on a rubric that is meant for you in another year’s time

  6. Finishing up the Year: • Exam Reflection DUE: Friday w/ your exam • Written Assignment DUE: Monday the 28th to the HSO by 7:30 a.m. remind each other! • Feel free to turn that into me on Friday  • Follow my directions for this… or else!

  7. Edit your Written Assignment: • Look carefully at your feedback from me – use it. • Edit and polish your essay -- make it REALLY strong! • Type a list of the specific improvements you have made -- turn this in with your 2nd draft • Get rid the questions on your title page and format it without them  • Dig up one of the reflective statements for that work -- choose the one you think is better written and better address the cultural context question. • You may not change this now, it must go as is!

  8. Turn your Written Assignment in THIS ORDER: • The rubric I marked in pencil for your first draft. • Your list of wise, specific, typed improvements • Your title page (with all information as directed and the questions you wrote for me taken off) • Your Essay -- perfect MLA formatting and citations, header inserted as directed • Lots of you need to fix your citations! • Your Reflective Statement for that work -- turned in AS YOU ORIGINALLY TYPED IT • Your Works Cited page -- perfect MLA formatting  

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