Late essays will have 5 points deducted from the grade. Honors classes require you to share your ideas and creativity with other students, not just with me. This portion of the final grade encourages you to do that. For every conceivable reason, your presence at each class is required. Of course illness or drastic necessity might call you away, but habitual absence is detrimental to you and to the class.
Honors students attend classes .
I will take attendance at the beginning of each class and after the mid-class break. Each half class counts as a full class in a regular semester. Missing more than five of these roll calls will put your final grade in jeopardy.