Dear Mag3 et al. students,
with my renewed apologies for the delay as well as for sending this message on a weekend.
You will find a helpful reminder about final exam content and grade breakdown in the first section of our EPI.
I have also posted there a pdf containing the list of words and expression from which four will be chosen for the final exam vocabulary section (about 120 words and expressions - see their use in context in the slideshows, see below).
FYI: I have uploaded the rest of the documents I had promised you and posted them on our EPI today:
1) See Course Slideshow section which displays:
a. Breaking News slides (I have included the last ones which we only run through quickly last week about Trump's Fifa Peace Prize, Sydney Sweeney controversy and all that)
b. Quote of the Day slides
c. Introducing Toleration slides (including a few on anticatholicism which we had not time to cover and which may be cryptic somewhat without the talking part but I posted them nonetheless).
You will also find two slideshows on "Capitalisation in English" and on "Singular-Plural Conundrums in English", both of them relevant to prepare for the grammar exercise of the final exam.
2) See Texts, Documents and Links section for papers, book chapters and articles on toleration and religion in the English-speaking world that I have mentioned in passing during sessions.
To prepare for the exam, I strongly suggest you read the first three texts in the section, which are particularly relevant to matters and issues we have mentioned but didn't have time to delve much into: Antipopery by my old Princeton mentor Peter Lake; the one on Quakers and Oaths/"Quakers et serments" (no pun intended with 'Quaker Oats'...), and the one on "Tolérance, la voie fanatique" which is a book chapter. If you prefer to read it in English, there's another version (please just scroll down).
No mandatory reading (I surmise you won't have time for it anyway until Wednesday, which is quite understandable) but if you have time later or even now, I suggest you read the introduction on historical puritanism, as well as the glossary of terms, both taken from the textbook on puritanism which I edited for the agrégation d'anglais a couple of years ago. Some awareness of puritanism is still exceedingly useful to understand some specificities of the religious heritage and context of the English-speaking world, particularly in the US.
Once again, I sincerely apologise for the delay in posting docs and slides, I hope they will be useful to you in spite of the late notice,
the best of luck for your final exam preparation, and see you on Wednesday
Best wishes,
Cyril Selzner
