English 220: Fiction into Film (Fall 2004)
Prep sheet for the in-class portion of the Final Exam
The final exam consists of two parts, which together will be worth 125 points -- an out-of-class essay and an in-class exam designed to take about an hour to complete. You may elect to have either part count for 75 points, in which case the other will count for 50 points. The document you are now reading tells you how to prepare for the in-class portion of the Final. Be sure, however, also to do the out-of-class essay as well!
For information on how the Final Exam (140 points) figures one's total score for the course, and how that score determines one's course grade, see Calculating the Course Grade.
Time and place
Both sections of the course will meet for the exam in our regular classroom, ECS-017.
Students who need to take the exam at the time scheduled for the other section are welcome to do so, if circumstances make that necessary. They should, however, get advance permission from me to do so, explaining their circumstances. (I can afford to be fairly lenient here. But I do have a concern that if practically everyone from both sections were to show up at one of the exam sessions, some people would end up having to sit on the floor for want of enough desks, and this is something I do not want to let happen.)
Format of the exam
In the in-class portion of the Final Exam will be an open-book exam. So be sure to bring your text of each with you to class.
è The more extensively you've marked up your copy of the works (and tabbed & bent pages with the longer works), the more likely you'll be to make good use of the opportunities afforded by this feature of the exam. On the other extreme: if you show up with and incomplete acquaintance with, or only the vaguest recall a text, you'll end up drowning in confusion trying to find your way.
In it you will write on 2 of the works we've taken up this semester:
For the latter 2 works (either Vonnegut's or Conrad's) you will be asked to comment on the larger significance of one or more passages. (You can figure on some changes between the version of the final offered on Wednesday and the version offered on Thursday.)
Concerning Emma, you'll be invited to discuss the significance of the difference(s) between the way this or that film adaptation is presented in one of the scenes we focused on and the way Austen's text renders that scene.
In preparing to do this your best bet would be to review very carefully Austen's handling of the scenes highlighted in yellow below. For the one I pick for you to discuss on the exam, I'll show you once again, during the exam, the particular scene in the particular film you'll be asked to discuss.
the 1996 feature film version of Emma (starring Gwyneth Paltrow)
- A&E's Emma
- (1997)
- BBC's Emma
- (1972)
- Corresponding passages in Austen’s novel
- (all in Volume III)
- E's cruel remark at the Box Hill picnic
- Mr. K's remonstrance
- E's taking stock of what K said
- 296
- 299-300
- 300; 301-06
- Ch. 8
- Ch. 9
Harriet's revelation to E that it is not Frank Churchill but rather Mr. Knightley that she has attached her affections to, and her explanation of the reasons she has for believing that these are returned
E's reaction to this [beginning in the scene just cited, but extending beyond it]
323-326
326-30
Ch. 11
Chs. 11-12
Resources
Recall that there are study guides for
Make-up Quizzes
Students who missed or did poorly on one or more of the quizzes over Austen's Emma (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, and/or Vol. 3) will have a chance to do a make-up during the second half of the 2-hour scheduled exam period. The purpose of these quizzes was to demonstrate that you had done the required reading. The purpose of the make-up(s) will be the same.