We’ll talk about it in class today, but I wanted to alert you to the midterm that’s coming a week from Tuesday. A couple of notes:

• It’s a take-home midterm that’s open-book and open-note.
• You will be asked to evaluate a third “journal article” on Butler’s novel, one you’ve never seen before, providing answers to a few short-answer questions and one longer essay. I estimate the exam should take 1.5-2 hours to complete, but I will give you a couple of days. I will release it via email on Sunday night and you will upload it via a Dropbox link by Tuesday at midnight (remember, “Tuesday is a Monday” due to Indigenous People’s Day on Monday 10/9). We will not meet for class on Tuesday: use that time to work on the exam!
• The exam will test your ability to quickly evaluate aspects of journal-length academic arguments, the skills we’re starting to work on today with Canavan. I realize these are very much new, developing skills, so I don’t expect perfection. The best way to study is to read Canavan and Frazier (Thursday’s reading), annotate freely, and engage as usual in our classroom discussion.
• I will provide the MS Word template and the Dropbox link on Sunday via the blog and the “group” email list. Be sure to check your email on Sunday to make sure you get it, and make sure to leave adequate time in your schedule to work on the exam.
• Exams received after midnight Tuesday will receive one letter grade deduction; after Wednesday at midnight, a zero.