Grades and dates

I know I made it sound like a headache to give you a progress report on your grade (it is), but that should not discourage you from asking for your grade if you want to know it.  FYI, as a class, you've fallen into a normal statistical curve (meaning there are a couple of people doing badly, a couple of people doing very well, and everyone else is distributed through the middle), and that freaks me out a little. 

If you're doing very badly, you've been informed.  If you haven't received a progress report, you have at least a middling C - in the 75% range.

Also - I've gotten lax on due dates.  Here is what can be made up: any homework assignment that does not have a specific time/date due time; journal entries; responses to media and your fellow students.  Here is what cannot be made up: check-ins, attendance, time-sensitive homework (your DEBATE PREPARATION is an excellent example), and other in-class participation points.

Reminders:

• You will be graded Thursday (3/1) on: your participation in the debate, your annotated article, your ability to work well within the group (your groupmates will grade you), and your aptitude in the debate itself (graded by the other group).  If there is a clear winner, I will give that group extra credit on the quiz.  Which segues to: 
• You have a quiz on Tuesday, 3/6, regarding nuclear weapons, the vocabulary surrounding Islam and terrorism, and your classmates' presentations.  It will be multiple choice, matching, and maybe a little short answer.