Revisiting extra credit

Many of you have fulfilled your performance requirement and are beginning to accrue extra credit by watching more performances. Here's a quick reminder about how this works:

Performances seen	Effect on your final grade
0	-16
1	-12
2	-8
3	-4
4	0
5	+2
6	+4
7	+5

Watching more than 7 performances is perfectly wonderful, and might improve your grade by giving you that much better a handle on the texts; however, you will not receive extra credit for them.

I'm sorry that extra credit is distributed kind of awkwardly -- I thought the 2/2/1 system was slightly more elegant than giving 5/3rds of a point for each of three movies.

The online discussion begins!

Carl (307) has posted a comment about the supernatural and the state of nature as a response to comments that came up in discussion on Friday.

Feel free to follow Carl's lead! As he notes at the top of his post, you can earn up to 5 points toward your participation grade by posting thoughtful, substantive responses (like Carl's) to questions, ideas, and problems that were raised in discussion. You are also welcome to respond to ideas, etc., raised by other posters.

Note that you will need a use or create a Blogger account. (I think you are already signed up for Blogger if you have a Gmail or other Google-based account, though I could be wrong about that.) You are welcome to post pseudonymously if you would rather avoid posting your full name, just email me to be sure that I know who you are so that I can give you credit.