This final exam will be two written responses: one creative narrative AND one expository literary response to Shakespeare. Divide your time 50/50 between the two, I offer.

Total time: 2.5 hours

Written Response #1: Narrative

The first response must be a narrative – but here are the rules. Your narrative elements – setting, characters, conflicts, symbols – must be synthesized from characters, settings, conflicts, and symbols studied in literature in this course. You can write in first-person or third person point of view.

Consider the following prompt to get you started:

While on the Easter 2020 STJ school field trip to Italy you experience a “pan-dimensional paradox in the space-time construct.” At a moment where you are witness to a rioting crowd outside a soccer stadium in Rome, you see a flash of light and characters from ELA 10 (characters you have added to your imagination from film, plays, novels, and stories you have studied) begin appearing in the scene. You see a noble character suffer evil consequences for attempting to show empathy for the well-being of another. The scene closes when you notice a “sixty-something-year-old” man holding a pen and a notebook. He gives you a solemn wink and a nod.

AND

Written Response #2: Expository Literary Essay

The second response must be an expository essay about a character’s decision to choose action over apathy. Here are the rules. Your essay must be on Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar. It must be at least 5 paragraphs. You must give specific examples, reasons, and details from the work to explain the nature of at least one character’s decision(s) to chose action over apathy.

Using specific references to the play Julius Caesar explain how a character(s) chose action over apathy. How and why must s/he act upon his/her knowledge, values, and abilities for the well-being of others?

Rubric 1: Narrative

Rubric 2: Essay

This final exam will be two written responses: one creative narrative AND one expository literary response to Shakespeare. Divide your time 50/50 between the two, I offer.

Total time: 2.5 hours

Written Response #1: Narrative

The first response must be a narrative – but here are the rules. Your narrative elements – setting, characters, conflicts, symbols – must be synthesized from characters, settings, conflicts, and symbols studied in literature in this course. You can write in first-person or third person point of view.

Consider the following prompt to get you started:

While on the Easter 2020 STJ school field trip to Italy you experience a “pan-dimensional paradox in the space-time construct.” At a moment where you are witness to a rioting crowd outside a soccer stadium in Rome, you see a flash of light and characters from ELA 10 (characters you have added to your imagination from film, plays, novels, and stories you have studied) begin appearing in the scene. You see a noble character suffer evil consequences for attempting to show empathy for the well-being of another. The scene closes when you notice a “sixty-something-year-old” man holding a pen and a notebook. He gives you a solemn wink and a nod.

AND

Written Response #2: Expository Literary Essay

The second response must be an expository essay about a character’s decision to choose action over apathy. Here are the rules. Your essay must be on Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar. It must be at least 5 paragraphs. You must give specific examples, reasons, and details from the work to explain the nature of at least one character’s decision(s) to chose action over apathy.

Using specific references to the play Julius Caesar explain how a character(s) chose action over apathy. How and why must s/he act upon his/her knowledge, values, and abilities for the well-being of others?

Rubric 1: Narrative

Rubric 2: Essay

Read Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

Choose one of the following approaches as a final written response to the novel:

1. Write a 5 Paragraph Essay: How do we live with the consequences of our decision making?

or

2. Write Chapter 13: “Gift of the Goddess.” Write a final chapter to the novel that begins with the last paragraph of Chapter 12. Maintain an omniscient point of view. Consider the following ideas (you do not have to use any of them).

• The officer may or may be familiar with Ralph’s father.
• The officer reveals to the survivors that the rescue ship has a morgue with two corpses.
• The rescue ship has a telegraph which allows the Officer to send a message home to the boys parents.
• There is a Catholic priest – a Chaplan – on the ship for the boys to talk to.
• The damage caused by WW 2 is real, not fictional. The world has sustained only damage that is indeed historically accurate.
• The boys have been missing 40 days.

The Hero’s Journey.

Suggested Time: 2.5 Hours
Use Microsoft Word, no internet access.

Create a short story from the point of view of one hero you have studied this semester.

Put that character into a new “hero’s journey.”

Here’s the catch, all elements of your new short story ought to be inspired by what you have studied this semester. All characters (hero, guardian(s), helper(s), mentor) in your story must be inspired by any other story/film/play characters you have studied. As well, the call to adventure, supernatural aid, threshold, transformation, challenges, temptations, abyss, revelation, atonements and return ought to be inspired by elements studied in any film/story/play studied in ELA 10.

Consider bringing into your story characters, settings, plots, conflicts from the following sources:

• Julius Caesar by Willam Shakespeare
• Hanna
• “I’ve Got Gloria” by M.E. Kerr
• “The Adventurous Life of John Goddard” by Sturart McLean
• “War” by Timothy Findley
• “Superman’s Song” by Brad Roberts
• “The Michelle I Know” by Alison Lohans
• “The Conversation of Birds” by Jean Yoon
• “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty

Rubric

Example Plan:

Hero: Hanna – a thirty-something year-old unmarried and unhappy Social Studies teacher at Archbishop Jordan High School.
Call to Adventure: Skydiving at the Edmonton Skydiving Centre
Supernatural Aid: iPhone X with face recognition technology, and a weather app with notifications turned on.
Helpers, Guardians, Antagonists: there are several other “characters” in the story: all similar to characters studied in English 10. A man with an unusually large gap in his front teeth, a women dressed in green, and someone carrying an empty dog crate. One of the skydivers collects Superman comics, one has a sister battling cancer, one remained back on the ground because he is afraid of ducks. You get the idea.

Rough idea: The plane goes up and everything seems normal, a storm appears, then the plane appears to be heading directly at the capital where the new premier (a popular red-haired fellow with a large gap in his front teeth, but embroiled in a scandal where protesters in Fort MacMurray where injured) is about the speak in front of a noisy crowd. As the plane hurtles toward the Legislature, clues begin to emerge that a conspiracy to cause havoc and mayhem is underway …

 

Suggested Time: 2.5 Hours
Use Microsoft Word, no internet access.
 

Choose one of the following:

Expository Literary Essay: Character Fails to See Truths

Expository Literary Essay: Moral Conflict

Expository Literary Essay: In Search of Self

 

Consider the following two pages of prompts. Then complete ONE the writing assignments.

Equality–Pain and Pride

 

Environment and Technology–Reality and Responsibility

 

Assignment (choose one):

1. Write a narrative or essay in which you examine the pain and pride in being human.  OR
2. Write a narrative or essay in which you examine how the environment influences life and shapes human feelings and opinions.

Rubric:

Tips:

• Enhance your writing with connections to ideas in news, history, culture, music, philosophy, religion, politics, sports, and/or society in your exploration.
• Enhance your writing with connections to ideas in any texts/media you have studied.
• Use correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization.
• Enhance the clarity and artistry of communication, make it clear and interesting.

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1. What troubles Hamlet at the opening of the play?
2. When Horatio tells Hamlet about the apparition, who does Hamlet think it might be? What does he decide to do? What type of omen does Hamlet think the apparition is?
3. Describe Hamlet’s meeting with the ghost. Who is the ghost? Why has it appeared? What does the ghost tell Hamlet to do? What might be some other reasons for the ghost appearing?
4. Why does Hamlet act as if he were mad? Why does Polonius think the reason for the madness is? Do you agree with him? Why or why not?
5. How does Claudius react to the performance of The Murder of Gonzago? Why? What does his reaction convince Hamlet of?
6. Describe Claudius and Gertrude. What does each think of Hamlet? How does each treat him? What does Hamlet think of them?
7. Why does Hamlet kill Polonius? How does Hamlet act after he finds out who he killed? What is your opinion of his actions?
8. How does Claudius feel about what he did to King Hamlet? As he is praying, Hamlet entry with his sword drawn. Why doesn’t he kill Claudius?
9. Why does Claudius decide to send Hamlet to England? What does he plan for Hamlet’s arrival there? What happens instead?
10. How does Claudius hope to eliminate Hamlet during the Prince’s duel with Laertes? Describe what happens during the duel?
11. Would you describe Hamlet as a tragic hero? Why or why not?