Update Sunday May 27, 2012
Congratulations! You made it! Summer is here and you have a couple months to kick back and relax. Semester grades have been submitted and you will receive a report card in the mail in a week or so. If you want to know your grade right now they are posted on jupitergrades.com. Essentially these are the same grades that will appear on the report cards. You will notice there is no score entered for your daily journals. I did score them but do not include them in the total. As I told you in class, the journals are the tiebreaker. If you are close to the next grade level. If you did well, I will bump you up. If you didn't put much effort into your journal your score will remain the same. For example...if jupitergrades shows a semester score of 79.1%, that would be a C+. If you did a great job on your journal I bumped your grade up to a B-, if you didn't put much effort into your journal your grade will stay at a C+. You will also notice there are two grades on the report card, one for the 3rd grading period and one for the final semester grade. The 3rd grading period includes just those assignments listed in jupitergrades with a 3 in front of the assignment name. The semester grade is all assignments.
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I hope you learned something this year. I have truly enjoyed our time together and will miss you very much. Enjoy your summer but please make sure you spend some time reading. The more you read over the summer the easier it will be to ramp it up in the Fall. A few suggestions: The Hunger Games series, the Harry Potter series, or if you want something a bit more challenging, pretty much anything by John Grisham or Tom Clancy.
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Anyway, thanks again for a great year. Don't be a stranger. Keep in touch. Its always great to hear from former students who have gone on to bigger things. I have faith in you...have faith in yourself. You can do anything you desire but it will take work. You can do it!
.Have a wonderful summer and see you on June 3rd if you are going to Washington DC with me.
Yours truly,.
Mr. Eklund