If you miss class for any reason, you must contact your instructor prior to the start of that class session to discuss the reason for your absence, and you will have to provide appropriate documentation of the extenuating circumstances which led to your absence. The decision to excuse your absence, based upon the documentation you provide, will rest with your instructor. Four unexcused absences or more will result in failure for the course. This course is designed around group activities, and when you fail to show up you hurt not only yourself, but the other people in the class who are counting on you. The only other rule of import you need to be aware of has to do with assignment due dates.
Assignments are due at the beginning of class.
Late work will not be accepted unless prior arrangements have been made due to documented extenuating circumstances. I will collect your portfolios twice during the year, once about mid-term, and once again at the end of the semester. Journal I expect you to keep a journal. Your journal should be a place for you to record thoughts, feelings, ideas, drafts of essays, poems, stories, pictures, and what ever-else you can put on a page and place into your binder. You should contribute to your journal at least three days each week.