Grading of quizzes: 20% of total grade. At the beginning of most class sessions, I will administer a brief quiz. These quizzes will consist of five to ten questions. The types of questions will vary. For example, in a single quiz, you may be asked to identify a speaker of a set of lines, the context of an action, a character's occupation, the cause of an event, the outcome of a plot, the fate of a character, the place where a meeting occurred, and so forth. Here are two sample questions from two quizzes:
From Daniel Defoe's Roxana: The answers to the above questions will be obvious to anyone who has read the texts. Let me say that I am not out to trip people up with hard questions. You really would have had to be sleeping while reading to miss the kinds of questions I am planning to ask you. In those cases where 60 percent or more of class members answers a question incorrectly, that question will be eliminated from that particular quiz's grade calculation (it won't count against you unless you answer it correctly, in which case you will receive a "bonus point"). Also, each student's two worst daily quiz scores automatically will be dropped from consideration when the time comes to calculate the quarterly grade. |
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