Late Work and grades

I hope that all is well and that you have all read 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3. Please be prepared for the second presentation and subsequent discussion in class tomorrow. 

I encourage all of you to look at your snapgrades and evaluate it for accuracy. If I have made a mistake, I need to know about it. It is unacceptable to see the kind of grades that I am seeing for this marking period. The problem with not doing your work when it is assigned is that the work you hand in late tends to be weak, rushed, and merely an inadequate substitute for what should have been a well organized and provocative response to literature. While this is not always the case, it does seem that, more often than not, it is. Just handing in "something" may be the barometer by which we measure success in a regular class, but in AP lit. much more is expected of you . Your education is your responsibility. You will get out of it exactly what you put in. In addition, I simply do not have the time to assess your work carefully and adequately.

While I understand that an occasional missed assignment is necessary, receiving an entire body of work at the end of a marking period is really unacceptable. It does neither of us any good to do our work this way.

If you are failing, please see me tomorrow. Grades are due Tuesday morning. I will have to call parents and discuss this, but I would prefer to discuss it with you first.