This Week

Class:

If you have not taken the 3rd oral exam, you should make sure to do so this week. You can take the exam during one of the class breaks, or you can take it in my office. You have to have a good reason to take the oral exam during the final exam week--a car accident, for example. Don't flake on this exam. (If you were in an accident, make sure to contact me. Also, if you say that someone will come to class on your behalf, and that person doesn't come to class, I have to punish both of you.)

You can retake the 3rd oral exam if you think you can do better than you did last week. Again, take time during a break or an office hour. I will have to talk to people who have not taken the test yet first, of course.

Next week we will review for the final and watch several episodes of The Simpsons. I will also announce in class the names of students who need to speak with me.

I will talk to students who have missed a lot or class or students who have had other problems. If I do need to talk to you, make sure that you come to class this week; otherwise you miss your chance to mitigate circumstances that might reduce your participation grade.

If there is something that I need to know in order to grade you fairly, make sure that I know about it (e.g. you missed a lot of class because of a serious illness, etc.).


Remember that I am offering an Amnesty conversation to ease your participation grade; some of you really should take advantage of it. If you've missed class, if you haven't worked hard during the oral/aural training, if you have misbehaved in class and made it harder for me to teach, you should consider the Amnesty conversation for the sake of your grade.

This week you should turn in your Oral Exam paper that describes other students' ideas about the movie. At the Final Exam, you can turn in a rewrite of one section of Paper 6; if you want to rewrite all of Paper 6, you need to talk to me first.

Let me add that you all are doing a good job of improving your vocabulary. I've heard many of you say and seen many of you write some of the words you learned from The Simpsons, and I think half of you used the word "inveterate" in the last paper, which I believe I used in the paper prompt. Great work.

Best of luck on all of your other final exams.

Sean