December 9, 2008
OUR LAST CLASS!!!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
IF YOU MISSED CLASS TODAY
In class today we did the following:
1. Dr. H showed the I-4 global Change
Savvy Consumer SLIDE SHOW
GC SAVVY CONSUMER SLIDE SHOW (Stay tuned, the
entire class slide show will be posted later in D2L)
2. Students engaged in the GLOBAL WARMING DEBATE, then
voted their OWN VIEW, and
turned in their I-5 Debate
Preparation Assignments.
3. We had a mini-review of some questions for the FINAL EXAM:
Mini-Review Questions with answers [color
pdf ] [grayscale
pdf ]
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Your final
Assignments I-5 and G-6 on the Global Warming
Debate were due TODAY !
2.
Now is a good time to review Practice Self Test & RQ-B (it
covers SGC-Kump Chapter 1 on Global Change )
3.The
FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
(with practice questions & answers) will be
posted in D2L later this week – hopefully on Thursday Dec 11th.
4. Dr H & the TA’s will hold
their regular office hours until the Final Exam.
Next week, instead of her office hours, Dr H will hold a
Study/Review Session for the FINAL EXAM on Wed Dec 17th
@ 2 – 4 pm in ILC 119.
5. PLEASE REMOVE ALL YOUR GRADED MATERIAL FROM YOUR FOLDERS TODAY!
6. GRADEBOOK UPDATES
will take place periodically over the next few
days as grading gets completed on I-4, I-5, the THINKING DEEPLY reports, and other
remaining items. (Keep an eye on the D2L home page for info on the latest
gradebook update.)
Check your gradebooks! If you think a grade is incorrect or has not been
recorded for an activity that you have completed email the TA who graded it
this week (if you have not already done so).
ALL past due assignments
must be submitted by
5:00 pm Wed Dec 10th
(hard copies) or by
midnight (11:59 pm) on Dec 10th
(electronic copies). Late
Thinking Deeply and GC Savvy files must be
submitted directly to the D2L DropBox, not
emailed.
ABOUT YOUR FINAL LETTER GRADE:
-- Your grade should reflect
the accumulation of
KNOWLEDGE,
not
points.
Scrapping for points in a last-ditch effort at the end of the semester does
not
help your case any!
-- Your
final LETTER GRADE
for this course will be based on the % earned of
500 possible points
in the class. The probable
letter grade cutoffs are:
A (100-90%), B (80-89%), C (70-79%), D (60-69%), E (<60%).
--These cutoffs are subject to a slight (relaxed) adjustment based on the
degree of difficulty of this semester's tests and assignments.
-- At final grade time,
if you are borderline between two letter grades, your effort in the
course as reflected in your
overall completion of assignments and your attendance and/or bonus will all be
factored into consideration for the higher letter grade. . . .
BUT
. . . . .
. . . the
most critical determinant
of whether you've earned the higher final
letter grade will be
your performance on the
ESSAY PORTION
of the Final Exam.
Show me you understand the material!!
