Hi Everyone,

I hope your week is off to a good start.  I wanted to check in to be sure that all of you are up to date on your assignments.  As you know, you can find weekly assignments posted here on the blog.  Please take a few minutes to review each week’s assignments and make sure that you have completed ALL of the work assigned to you thus far.

Once again, I encourage you to visit me during OFFICE HOURS today between 12:30 and 1:30 pm.  This is particularly important if you are missing assignments, are confused about what is expected of you, or have questions about the Literacy Narrative.  You can access office hours via this Zoom Link:  https://baruch.zoom.us/j/83345839831

Yesterday by midnight your Literacy Pre-Write assignment was due in our shared class Google Doc folder.  Most of you have uploaded the assignment already, but if yours is missing, please see that you place it in the folder this morning.

Your work for today involves giving feedback to the members of your Writing Group.  This means that most of you will be reading and providing feedback to three of your classmates.  This is a particularly important assignment because failure to complete it doesn’t just negatively affect you; it also hurts your classmates.  If you cannot find your Writing Group members’ Literacy Pre-Writes in our folder, don’t worry.  You won’t be penalized for failure to comment on work that hasn’t been submitted yet!  But please send me an email at [email protected] edu and let me know whose writing you were unable to find.

So far this month you have had eight small assignments to complete, including the Literacy Pre-Write.  If you are missing more than four of these assignments, you can anticipate that I will be reaching out to your SEEK counselor in the next day or so to let her know that you are behind in the class and are at risk of failing and will also be providing the Dean with the names of students who are currently “at risk.”  Obviously, there is plenty of time to turn things around, but remember that YOU are the one responsible for your missing assignments.  I will not be chasing after you to encourage you to complete them.

If you have any questions about any of this, please don’t be shy.  Stop by my office hours, or send me an email.  I am looking forward to seeing all of you in person on Wednesday!

Professor Sylvor