Grades

Some of you may be looking at PowerSchool with some shock right now. I just entered all the grades I had in a big batch. And there are still more coming that will have an effect on your grade (for better or for worse). There is still a chance to revise and turn in work to improve your grade, but you must follow these instructions:

1. All submissions and revisions are due by 11:59pm Friday, October 19, 2012. THIS IS A FIRM DEADLINE. NO LATE WORK AFTER THIS TIME.

2. The large research project we have been working on falls under this deadline as well.

3. You must tell me to look for these new submissions (not including the research project) and revisions by posting a reply/comment to this post. IF YOU DO NOT MAKE THE REPLY, I WILL NOT LOOK FOR YOUR NEW WORK. See below for more details

4. One large element many people missed was replying to other people's blogs. You were required to to make a total of three intelligent and respectful replies to three different people's blogs. This assignment took up about half of the first page of the grading sheet. If you choose to make this up, you must tell me (in a reply to this post) the name of the classmate and the movie you made a comment on.

5. If you revise a post in your blog, you must tell me which post you revised by replying to this post.

6. If you add a post to your blog, you must tell me that a new post was added in a comment to this post.

7. You must make sure that your name appears in the comment or reply.

8. If you have any questions, you can ask me in person, but if you tell me about improvements on your blog without also noting them in a reply to this blog post, you will not receive credit for them.

The grades for this class right now form an almost perfect U curve if plotted graphically: 12 As, 3 Bs, 0 Cs, 2 Ds, and 11 Fs. The biggest thing bringing people's grades down are not having the blogs updated with all of the required posts. This is your chance to change the look of that graph.