Course: MUS 156 Music Theory I · Kenosis College
Instructor: Professor Hemsworth
Unit: Learning Unit 16 of 16 (Week 16) · Final exam: the Week 16 exam session — a 120-minute block
Objectives: SLO 1–SLO 8 — all of them; that is what "cumulative" means

This file holds two pieces: (A) the Week 16 Overview page ("Start Here") and (B) a short
finals-week announcement that posts at the top of finals week. All timing uses the course's
tokens; the projection layer resolves them to real dates. Week 16 has no discussion, no
studio, no quiz, no assignment — one exam, and the review family that gets you ready for it.

(A) Week 16 Overview — Start Here

Welcome to Unit 16: The Final

Sixteen units ago I made you a claim: you already hear this — we're going to name what you
already know. On exam morning you get two hours to show how true that became. Not to me,
really. To yourself.

Here is the whole unit in one paragraph. The final is the Week 16 exam session — a 120-minute block, in our regular room. It is sixty questions, 120 points, cumulative across everything
from C4 to the chart, and weighted the way the semester was weighted — about three quarters
of it comes from units 9–15, the harmony arc, with the Foundations underneath. It is
proctored, on paper, closed to AI and to notes. And it is written for the full 120-minute
block, not for one of our 75-minute classes — two minutes per question, on purpose. You
have time to think. Use it.

One thing to notice about the timing

Instruction has ended, and the final follows within days. There is no study week — which is exactly
why everything in this module has been open since the end of week 14: the review outline,
the review deck, the study guide, the AI prep tutorial, and the full 50-question practice
final. If you've been touching them a little each day since then, this week is a lap you've
already run. If you haven't — start with the study guide's two-day plan, right now, in this
order: practice final under exam conditions today, miss-list repair tomorrow.

What's in this module, in working order

The table below lists the unit's items. Everything except the final itself is ungraded
preparation — open since week 14, still open now.

The late-work policy is in the syllabus.

Logistics — what to bring to the exam

• Yourself, a few minutes early. We start sharp; walking in settled beats walking in winded.
• Two pencils and an eraser. Scratch paper is provided.
• Nothing else. No notes, no devices, no AI — phones silenced and away in bags. Every
  question is answerable from the page; there is no keyboard portion.
• Breakfast, honestly. Two hours of thinking runs on it.
• If you have an accommodation letter, your testing arrangement is already set — if you
  haven't confirmed it with me, do that today, not the night before.

How to spend the last two days

1. Take the practice final once under exam conditions — one sitting, 100 minutes, no
   notes. It shares zero questions with the real exam, so nothing is spoiled and everything
   is rehearsed.
2. Sort your misses with the study guide's miss log: concept, convention, or speed.
   Repair each kind differently — the guide shows how.
3. Run the prep tutorial's mock-pacing mode once. Ten mixed questions against the clock,
   so the exam's rhythm feels familiar.
4. Stop by the evening before. Sleep is preparation. The last hour before bed is for the
   traps list, not for new material.

A word before you go in

You walked in able to hear when a chord was wrong. You walk out able to say which chord,
why it's wrong, spell the right one, write it down, and hand the fix to your band in
whatever key the singer needs. That was the promise of the spine sentence, and you kept
your half of it all semester. The exam isn't a trap and it isn't a trick — it's sixty small
chances to notice how much louder the page speaks to you than it did in Week 1.

See you at 9:00. Bring your ears — they've been ready the longest.

— Professor Hemsworth

(B) Finals-Week Announcement — Week 16

Release: posts at the top of finals week (drip — not before). Ships workflow_state=active
with side_comment; see placement block.

Subject: Tomorrow — you have time to think

Hi everyone,

Tomorrow morning: the final, the full 120-minute block, our regular room. Sixty questions, cumulative,
weighted toward the harmony arc — exactly the shape of the practice final you've had since
week 14.

Three reminders, all small:

1. Bring pencils, an eraser, and nothing else. Scratch paper is provided; phones live in
   bags.
2. The exam is written for the full two hours. Two minutes per question. Nobody is
   racing you — settle in, answer the ones you know first, and let the block work for you.
3. Tonight: the traps list in the review outline, one pass, then sleep. No new material
   after dinner — you know more than you think you do, and rest is how you get access to it.

It has been a genuine pleasure to spend a semester naming things with you. Come show
yourself what you built.

— Professor Hemsworth

Canvas placement block

# (A) Overview page
canvas_object    = Page
title            = "Week 16 Overview — Start Here · The Final"
published        = true
module_position  = first item in the Week 16 module
# Module contents: this page, B review outline, E review deck, M study guide,
# N prep tutorial, O practice final, L final exam. No discussion in Week 16.
# The whole review family carries available_from = end of week 14.

# (B) Finals-week announcement
canvas_object    = Announcement
title            = "Tomorrow — you have time to think"
workflow_state   = active
discussion_type  = side_comment
delayed_post_at  = the top of finals week (drip; the module itself opened with week 14)
# Announcements are NEVER module items — Canvas rejects them as module content.
# They live in the Announcements stream only; do not add this to the Week 16 module.