In this class you'll have a lot of reading assignments, but they're interesting. The reading assignments are small parts form a long story. She'll do a review of the story the next day. Make sure that you participate because she'll definitely notice. She gave us 2 essays (a personal essay and a group research paper) to do. Which ever was the highest grade, she used as the grade for the third essay. However, she only did this because our class was sort of behind. The final is an online assessment. You'll be given the reading assignments and the essay topic 2 weeks prior to the due date. They give you the work cited (aka the sources), so you don't have to cite unless the some information in your essay came from another source than the list they give you. The grading for the final is from a 2 - 12. If you score high, you'll test out of ENGL 2000, so you'll get the credit for that class. Mrs. Pethke doesn't give your papers back early. She takes like a month to give them back. But she doesn't assign the due date for the next essay until you've gotten the first graded paper to see how you did. She doesn't post grades on moodle, so you'll sort of be anxious about what your grade is until she gives the essays back. I recommend Mrs. Pethke because she said that the other instructors grade REALLY hard. If your instructor wears a bow tie, they most likely are the hard graders.
