Thursday, 12 February

All:  The independent reading blog counts as eight literature grades. At the end of the trimester, I  calculate your grade by adding the number of posts you have made, adjusting for length and originality, and comparing the total to an acceptable average number of posts.  Last trimester, that  average was eight. If you had eight posts, your grade was an 85. Fewer posts yielded lower grades, and more posts yielded higher grades. 

Last week I warned each class that some students were not blogging enough, or, more to the point, at all.  Several of you did not take my warning on blogging seriously. Instead of trying frantically to make up for a trimester squandered and posting immediately, some students did nothing.  Clearly, procrastination is deeply seated in those few students, and I would like to help. To that end,  if you have not made substantial contributions to your class's blog by Tuesday, 17 Feb, I will record five of the eight zeros that you have earned so far in my grade book. No amount of last second blogging will save you from those five zeros, though posts made after the 17th will help on the final three grades.

Hope this helps!

7th Grade--Review the information about the Articles of Confederation and review your agendas for the Constitution game.