Thursday, March 30, 2006
Change to Reading Responses
Because class attendance has not improved, I will be changing the method by which you hand in reading responses.
Starting on April 4th, you will write a reading response for each class meeting, and these responses will be due on paper at the beginning of class. I will no longer accept responses posted to your 'blogs. Your responses should be roughly 1 double-spaced page typed or three handwritten pages.
I will grade each response out of 5 points, giving you a possibility of 10 points for responses each week (the same number of points as before). I will drop your three lowest scores OUT OF TEN (which actually means that you can skip twice as many responses, assuming you haven't used all of your skips already - so it's not all bad!).
To summarize:
Starting on April 4th, you will write a reading response for each class meeting, and these responses will be due on paper at the beginning of class. I will no longer accept responses posted to your 'blogs. Your responses should be roughly 1 double-spaced page typed or three handwritten pages.
I will grade each response out of 5 points, giving you a possibility of 10 points for responses each week (the same number of points as before). I will drop your three lowest scores OUT OF TEN (which actually means that you can skip twice as many responses, assuming you haven't used all of your skips already - so it's not all bad!).
To summarize:
- No more 'blogs.
- Turn in reading responses at the beginning of EACH CLASS SESSION (both Tuesdays and Thursdays).
- The two responses for each week are worth 10 points total (the same number of points that the one 'blog entry was worth).
