13 J. D. Salinger, first 3 stories in Nine Stories 15 Salinger, middle three stories in Nine Stories 17 Salinger, last 3 stories in Nine Stories 20 Salinger, cont. Oct 1 Vonnegut, cont. 4 Vonnegut, cont. 6 Robert Lowell, poems in Strand, esp. The final exam will be on Friday, December 17, 1-3 p.m. in regular meeting room.
All students take the final.
It will be distributed on the last day of classes, to be returned on the day of the exam. The in-class portion will be short answer and short essay questions specifically targeted to the reading. This will be an hour-long written exam. It will test both familiarity with the texts and your ability to comment thoughtfully on them in coherent prose. This is a short critical response paper, based on your own close reading of a particular text.