Final+Exam+Instructions

**Wednesday, 13 June, 2012, 11:00 - 12:50 p.m., in B003 JFSB or 3012 JKB**
 * Checklist and Rubric for the Final Exam** **Creative Works Presentations**

Outcome: For the final examination, students will use language figures and linguistic details to write an original 3-4 stanza hymn text and sing it with class members in an oral presentation

1. Content Guidelines (10 points).


 * Choose a hymn meter.
 * Select a gospel topic.
 * Create a text of 3-7 stanzas that can be sung to that hymn meter.
 * Weave the hymn with linguistic features and poetic formulas that we have studied or that you have discovered.
 * Provide a paper copy of the text for the instructor and class members.

2. Presentation Guidelines (10 points).


 * Be prompt in arrival to the exam and stay for the whole time.
 * Be respectful and attentive for all of the presentations.
 * Present your hymn and sing it with the class, taking no more than 10 minutes.
 * Respond to comments and questions for no more than 5 minutes.
 * Invite at least two people to attend the final: family, friends, roommates, teachers, or others. You receive points for inviting them, even if they cannot attend.

3. Purposes of the Final Exam.


 * To consolidate the learning exercises and experiences that we have shared this semester.
 * To apply some of the language features, linguistics details, poetic conventions, and philological traditions that we read about in the Dickinson and Watkins textbooks.
 * To enhance writing skills and future writing projects by consciously using linguistic features in an original text.
 * To “sing unto the Lord a new song” (Psalms 33:3; Isaiah 42:10; Revelation 5:9, 14:3).