Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Grade Breakdown?

PLEASE READ AND COMMENT!!! ABOUT OUR GRADES AND CONFUSION!

So I'm so lost on what the potential earned points for this class are. The syllabus contradicts the blog and things mentioned in the blog aren't matching up either. This is what I've been able to gather so far. I hope someone can shed some light on this because I don't feel like Mickey has been very organized this semester.

100 points potential for participation. This was described in the syllabus as "Regularly contributing thoughtful comments/questions which add relevant ideas to class discussion/group work; helpful to others; the student is prepared."
In my opinion I believe I should earn the full 100 possible points for this. 

100 points for in class writing
I am assuming these would have been those assignments we did in class and as homework and submitted via google docs. (Social Media - 5 , Audience and Purpose - 5 , Favorite Food - 5 , Mrs. Flowers Close Reading - 5 , Description Practice-Shoes and Deat - 5 , Description: Person/Place - 15 , Hills Like White Elephants-Dialogue - 5 , Alexie and Michael's Theme - 5 , Sonys Blues (no point value or grade entered in grade-book). With all of these totaling 50 points so far...not 100. (unless she doubles all of these point values)

Blog Assignment (syllabus says 200 - blog assignment sheet in class blog says 150)
There were supposed to be 30 published blogs throughout the semester. Each of these hold a value of 5 points. This would be the equivalent of 150 potential points. So I would just assume that the other 50 possible points would come from our 15 assigned comments on others blogs? which would value each comment at 3.33 points??? 
NOW the more confusing part, of those 30 blog post 15 were supposed to be those given to us by Mickey in class about class discussion. When I refer back to our class blog and my personal class notes I can only account for (4) class assigned blogs. Dates for these blogs are Jan 22, Jan 27, Feb 17, and Mar 24. In my opinion The other 11 unaccounted blog post should be dismissed OR credit for the (4) assigned should be raises. For example either   20 points possible (4x5) or (75/ 4) which would count for half of the 30 blog points divided by the actual amount assigned; which would value each of those blogs at 18.75 points... 

A Narrative 90 points possible
Analysis Project 150 points possible - 3 papers 50 points each
Historical Narrative Project - 200 points possible - Annotated bib, I-search, Historical Narrative 
Revision Project - 100 possible points + Extra points possible earned towards original paper. 
Extra Credit - 75 possible points - 50 for the extra credit itself and 25 for showing up. 

Does all of this seem legit to you guys? Opinions or comments PLEASE!!



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