Final Seniors
Friday 1st and second
Monday 3rd
Tuesday 7th
Come with paper and pen (blue or black)
I will have most of these examples, but to be sure you might want to download and bring articles to class. (Most on blog or in class text)
First 20 Questions are true or False over - MLA Rules.
Attached are the questions you will be asked to answer in paragraph sentences. You will be assigned your question from each part randomly .
Contemporary Literature/Composition
Final Exam ‘09
Part II. In paragraph form, answer or respond to the assigned question/topic on South Africa.
A. Evaluate the human effect of the South African system of Apartheid. (Use examples from Kaffir Boy, Civil Peace, and Cry Freedom.)
B. Evaluate the significance of Jared Diamond’s thesis from Guns, Germs, and Steel in the context of South African apartheid. (Use examples from GGS, the timeline of Apartheid, and at least one of the works listed above.)
C. Evaluate the ideas, words, and life of Nelson Mandela in the context of South Africa Apartheid. (uses examples from Mandela’s speech, “No Easy Walk to Freedom”, and his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.)
Part III. In paragraph form, answer or respond to the assigned question/topic on Rwanda or Nigeria.
A. Explain the underlying/causal effect of tribal conflict and colonial rule on the Rwandan Genocide. ( Use examples from the historical timeline the film Hotel Rwanda, and GGS.
B. Evaluate the significance of Jared Diamond’s thesis from Guns, Germs, and Steel in the context of post-colonial events in Rwanda and /or Nigeria. (Use examples from GGS and at least two of the relevant works listed above.)
Part IV. In paragraph form, answer or respond to the assigned question/topic on the Nobel Peace Prize winners.
A. Evaluate the Dalai Lama’s perspective on the future in the context of his own life, the text of his Nobel speech, and world events today. (Be sure to include references to the film, Kundun.)
B. Discuss the similarities in theme among Nobel Peace prize acceptance speeches by Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Part V. In paragraph form, answer or respond to the assigned question/topic on fairy tales. (Use material, as appropriate, from the defining the literary fairy tale” outline, Bruno Bettelheim’s introduction to The Uses of Enchantment, Films Big Fish and Horton Hears a Who
A. Using various examples, explain the evolution of the fairy tale.
B. How have fairy tales historically addressed issues central to both adults and children?
C. Using archetypical symbols and characters explain why Big Fish or Horton Hears a Who are classic fairy tales
D. Contrast the older “classical” fairy tales to modern Disney versions.
