Last Words: Final Exams
The final exam prompt indicated that each student was to write an in-class, two-hour essay about the essential similarity or difference between the categories listed below. The students were instructed to use only the writings of Emily Dickinson and Henry James as evidnece in their essays. Click here to view entire exam prompt, instructions and suggestions.
Catetgories:
a. poetic verse / prose fiction
b. female / male
c. human thought / human worth
d. our two deceased authors / ourselves as living persons
Click on any of the links below to view excerpts from the exams:
» Responses discussing
poetic verse and prose fiction.
» Responses discussing females and
males.
» Responses discussing human thought and
human worth.
» Responses discussing our two deceased
authors and ourselves as living persons.