Grade Components:
PROFESSIONALISM (15% Contract Grade):
Every student:
- Who misses fewer than two classes
- Who comes to class on time
- Who participates in class discussion
- Who turns in every assignment, on time, and in the correct format
Will receive all fifteen professionalism points.
10 Quizzes (15% partial contract grade)
Almost every week, we will have a short in-class quiz on that week’s readings.
Every Student:
- Who takes at least eight quizzes will receive at least ten of these points.
- Who accumulates at least eighty-five points across all ten quizzes will receive five more points
- Who accumulates between seventy and eighty-four points across all ten quizzes will receive four more points
- Who accumulates between fifty-five and sixty-nine points across all ten quizzes will receive three more points
- Who accumulates between forty and fifty-four points across all ten quizzes will receive two more points
- Who accumulates between twenty-five and thirty-nine points across all ten quizzes will receive one more point.
3 Quizzams (15% partial contract grade)
Three times during the semester, in weeks 5, 10, and during final exam week, we will have a slightly longer quizzam that covers the material from the previous few weeks.
Every Student:
- Who takes all three quizzes will receive a minimum of eight points.
- Who carries an 90-10) average across the three quizzes will receive seven more points
- Who cares an 80-89 average across the three quizzes will receive six more points.
- Who carries a 70-79 average across the three quizzes will receive five more points
- Who carries a 60-69 average across the three quizzes will receive four more points
- Who carries a 50-59 average across the three quizzes will receive three more points
- Who carries a 40-49 average across the three quizzes will receive two more points
- Who carries a 30-39 average across the three quizzes will receive two more points
- Who carries a 20-29 average across the three quizzes will receive one more point
6 response papers (20% partial contract grading)
Six times during the semester, students will turn in a short (two-page 3-5 paragraph) response to a prompt based on the recent readings and discussion. For the first two, we will format these papers in class based on two workshops.
Every Student:
- Who turns in all six response papers will receive a minimum of seventeen points. The remaining points will be awarded according to average grade: 85-100 = three points, 70-85 = two points, 55-70 = one point
- Who turns in five response papers will receive sixteen points. The remaining points will be awarded by average grade: 85-100 = three points, 70-85 = two points, 55-70 = one point
- Who turns in four response papers will receive fifteen points. The remaining points will be awarded by average grade: 85-100 = three points, 70-85 = two points, 55-70 = one point
- Who turns in three response papers will receive twelve points.
- Who turns in two response papers will receive ten points
- Who turns in one or fewer response papers will receive no points
5 paragraph summaries (20% Contract Grading)
Five times during the semester, students will produce one-sentence summaries of each paragraph from some longer readings. These take time, so plan accordingly.
Every student who turns in
- Five paragraph summaries will receive twenty points
- Four paragraph summaries will receive seventeen points
- Three paragraph summaries will receive fourteen points
- No points will be available for those who turn in fewer than three paragraph summaries.
3 Article summaries (15% Contract grading)
Three times during the semester students (according to whether they are in group A or group B) will fill out an analytic summary of a journal article.
Every student who turns in three article summary worksheets will receive all fifteen points.
No points will be awarded for turning in fewer than three article summary worksheets.