Your Blogs: a change in requirements. . .a nice change!

Hi, my dear students. I wanted to make sure you all know that I'm requiring several fewer weeks of your blogs.
Originally, I wanted you to write all the way to the final week of the semester (the 18th week), but now I'm only grading you up to the end of week 14: June 3rd.
That in effect means that I'll give you only two grades:

1. all the weeks from the second week of classes until the first due date you had on the Google calendar, (this first period has already passed) and
2. all the weeks from the week beginning with the first due date until the last day of the last week of required blogging, which is June 3rd: this coming Sunday.

• Please just make sure that in that second period you have at least three entries per week, average. Please recall also that the goal is to write frequently, not just to write three times for each week. Some students have been writing up to six entries on a single day, and I don't count the extras. They should be written all (or nearly so) on different dates! If you write too few times one week, write more frequently the following week, but don't just write two weeks' worth of entries all on one day. That is not really meaningful practice, and most of these entries are not worth your time or mine.
  
• If on June 3rd you still don't have enough entries, however, I'll give you another week to catch up.
  
• I won't count any entries after June 10th for your grade, so catch up this week or suffer the consequences!
  

Don't forget, also, that this coming Tuesday you should have a full draft of your essays with a title, citations, and a Works Cited page (a separate page!) in place. We'll be doing some group work next week and you'll be helping each other to spot any sort of mistakes and making suggestions, etc.

Please try a diamante and/or a haiku for next Tuesday if you want bonus points from that. That might help some of you who didn't have such a good blog grade first time around. Further, recall that you can get extra points at any time by fixing George Bush's broken English (a new bad English quote each time you refresh this blog's front page!). Help yourself to get a good grade, and have fun doing it! C'mon, try!

Sincerely,

The Sideburned Instructor