In class, students are required to actively participate by offering relevant comments when appropriate. Students will be expected to share ideas and writing, and to listen to other people s ideas and written work. Some of this will be done in small groups. If a student s participation is regular and relevant, and the students grade borders between two steps on the grading scale, I reserve the right to use the student s participation to raise the grade to the higher step. I never accept late daily assignments.
Papers are due at the beginning of class.
If a student is ill, the student may send a paper to me with another student, but it is still due at the beginning of class and the student will still be counted absent. If, when a major paper is due, a student has a personal emergency, such as death of a family member, the student must contact me that day for a possible one-day extension. If a student misses a class, it is the student s responsibility to ask a classmate for assignments or notes the student missed. Please check the web page for changes. On the last day of regular classes, students will take an exit exam lasting 45 minutes which will determine whether or he or she is prepared for English 101.