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SPAN 139 FINAL EXAM | When, where and how will the final exam be administered?

Date: Monday, June 10, 2024

Time: Three (3) hour time window for exam completion and submission.

Location: The final exam will be held remotely on Canvas.

PROTOCOL | What do I need to know BEFORE the day of the exam?

· The final exam will be administered on Canvas (Module: Finals Week).

· You can take the exam any time on Monday, June 10 within the window of 5:45am and 11:45pm.

· You will have a time limit of three (3) hours for completion of the exam. For example, if you begin the exam at 10:00am, you will have until 1:00pm to submit your completed exam.

· Please be sure you have clicked the “submit” button prior to signing off. After submitting your exam on Canvas, feel free to send an email message to the instructor to confirm that your exam was submitted successfully.

FORMAT | What type of exam will I be taking?

The final exam for SPAN 139 is a timed 3-hour essay exam formatted as a Canvas quiz, with written response templates for each question. All responses must reflect your own writing. There are no multiple choice, true/false or automatically graded questions on the exam.

CONTENT | What can I expect to write about on the final exam?

A. Módulo Questions: The final exam contains at least one (1) question related to the readings for EACH Módulo.

· For each question, you will be asked to analyze specific Módulo readings in relation to major course themes and meta-topics.

· Your responses will be scored based on a rubric of required criteria for inclusion.

· Your responses must demonstrate a thorough familiarity with the required readings.

· For each question, you will be required to present original ideas and support your analysis with textual evidence, as we’ve been doing in the PP, CRJ, and DV assignments throughout the quarter.

B. Creative Response Questions: you can expect to see at least two (2) questions on the final exam that will require you to answer imaginatively by “thinking outside the box” about characters, plots and situations related to select course texts.

· Successful creative response questions will require a thorough knowledge of the featured text(s).

· Responses will be scored based on a rubric of required criteria for inclusion.

· Review your 📂[PP] Creative Writing Activity (you may want to copy what you have written to include on an exam response).

· Consider the protagonists of the course readings and [PP] asynchronous films. If you could choose a main character from one of these course texts to have a conversation with, who would you choose, and why? What would you say to this individual, and how?

· Review all of the images you have procured for your group’s CRJ. Which of the images you yourself have contributed do you feel are most impactful and/or relevant to the course readings?

OUTSIDE SOURCES | What outside sources am I permitted to access and cite during the exam?

Permitted Outside Sources for Módulo Questions: students are only allowed to use their own Participation Portfolio [PP] writing and their group's Collaborative Reading Journals [CRJ] as outside resources/references during the exam.

· You will be permitted to integrate portions of your own previously-written responses and comments word-for-word from the PP asynchronous activities, classwork, and CRJs.

· To be clear: you may pull verbatim portions/citations of your own writing directly from your PP and CRJ responses and comments to incorporate in your final exam responses.

· Although your peer group may have discussed ideas related to the readings collaboratively, you may NOT use the verbatim writing of members of your peer reading group in your final exam responses, as this would constitute plagiarism.

· The instructor will provide a specific protocol for how to cite your own CRJ writing within the exam essays. For example, if you copy/paste any portions of your own CRJ writing into your essay response, you will need to include a properly-formatted citation for the quote you have pulled (Ex; Acosta, K., Blue, CRJ 10, Prompt 1.1).

· Likewise, if you copy/paste any portions of your own PP writing into your essay response, you will need to include a similarly-formatted citation for the quote you have pulled (Ex; Acosta, K., PP Activity 4, Prompt III).

· Your responses to the final essay questions must be original and written by you on the day of the exam. Any previous writing by you must be cited accordingly within the body of your exam essay. If you have provided textual evidence within the body of your own previously-written PP or CRJ responses, this is acceptable for inclusion in your final exam essays.

· There is no limit to the amount of content you are allowed to copy/paste verbatim from your own previously written PP and CRJ responses.

· Bottom line: the more detailed, thorough and well-supported your writing is for the PP and CRJ, the easier and breezier the final exam experience will be for you! If you have completed all of the required course readings and consistently written thorough PP and CRJ responses supported by textual evidence, rest assured that you have already done the hardest work for this course. The final essay exam will require very little, if any, preparation from those who have stayed abreast of the material, assignments and discussions all quarter.

· You are permitted to use WordCount.com to check the word count for your responses.

QUICK STUDY GUIDE | What topics should I focus on as I prepare for the exam?

Look over all of the assigned readings on the calendario to refresh your memory. For each reading, you should be able to:

· 1) locate the text within course Módulos 1, 2 and 3.

· 2) Indicate the expressive genre of the reading.

· 3) Identify at least one (1) major course theme and one (1) meta-topic in the reading.

· 4) Describe how the text connects with at least two (2) other course readings.

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Prepare to think big and small:

· In this exam, you will be asked to think broadly about the readings in connection with major course topics and themes.

· You will be asked to situate certain readings within a socio-historical context.

· You will be able to freely choose some of the readings you write about on the final. Other readings you will select from a list of several choices. In some instances, you will be required to write about specific readings (specifically, the important texts and video/film we have discussed in class and focused on in [PP] activities).

RUBRIC | How will my exam be graded?

Your responses to each question on the final exam will be scored according to a specific rubric. It is a good idea to look over the rubric before and after writing your response. Reviewing the rubric will help you understand the criteria used to grade your response and help ensure that your response meets that criteria and adequately addresses all parts of the question. Here is a sample rubric:

Essay Question 1: Rubric

Response Criteria	Point Value / 25	Points Awarded
STRUCTURE: Response is organized around an original thesis and contains a body and conclusion. Meets minimum word count.	5
CONTENT 1: Makes mention of at least one (1) main reading.	5
CONTENT 2: Discusses main reading in connection with at least (2) secondary course readings.	5
CONTENT 3: Response is sufficiently supported by relevant examples and textual evidence.	5
STYLE: Response is well-written and composed in a register appropriate to the prompt. All content pulled from CRJ is properly cited.	5

CRJ CITATION | How do I cite my CRJ in the final exam?

Group 5’s CRJ will be used to demonstrate. Here is an example of how you would cite your own previous writing from the CRJ in a response on the final exam. Let’s say the exam question is similar to Prompt 2.2 📓[CRJ]11. You scroll through your CRJ and find a relevant passage you wrote on p.28-29:

You copy and paste a paragraph of your own writing from the CRJ onto the final exam to work into your exam question response. Note the citation format at the end of the paragraph:

Sample Question 1: CRJ Citation Format for Response

… “With children being narrators in these stories and serving as literary subjects, we discover how they are sent here young and alone and are forced to learn English. Although we’ve read how children in past modules have similar experiences to these, I believe The Wandering Song grabs the reader's attention to really think about the surges of unaccompanied children arriving in the U.S.

I feel that these readings correspond to the first two modules through a shared theme of identity. For instance, in “Me Enteré Que Era Hispano, Aguilar explains how it was not until he came to the U.S. that he realized that he was Hispanic. Being in the U.S. made him notice the details, such as the dark lines on the palms of his hands (p. 133). Although he ends by saying that he has learned to love his hispanidad, it is apparent that the U.S. invoked in him an identity negotiation that he did not experience while living in Honduras. Another shared theme across all modules that I noticed is poverty. For example, in “La Masacuata” although too small, Ada would wear the same dress, year after year, for special occasions. We learned that both these themes, poverty and identity, are common in Nuyorican literature that we have previously read. And just to note, although obvious, bilingualism (difficulty with English, language assimilation, etc) is also a large part of the experience that many different Latinx groups share in the U.S.” (Gutierrez, J., Blue, CRJ 11, Prompt 2.2).

Pa’lante todxs… You got this 😌