{"id":142,"date":"2009-11-07T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T20:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2009\/11\/urgent---change-schedule-for-exam-3.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:13:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:13:03","slug":"urgent-change-schedule-for-exam-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2009\/11\/urgent-change-schedule-for-exam-3\/","title":{"rendered":"URGENT &#8211; Change schedule for Exam #3 ???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking over Chapter #9 and the schedule for the next two weeks<br \/>\nand I&#8217;m kicking around two options in my mind.<\/p>\n<p><b>Option #1<\/b><br \/>Exam #3 would still be on Monday, November 16. However, if the exam were<br \/>\nto be held on this day, I would abbreviate the exam&#8217;s coverage of<br \/>\nchapter 9 topics <i><span class=\"moz-txt-star\"><span class=\"moz-txt-tag\"><\/span>slightly<span class=\"moz-txt-tag\"><\/span><\/span> <\/i>(and these topics would appear on the final<br \/>\nexam instead). The &#8220;abbreviated&#8221; exam would not include sections<br \/>\n9.6-9.8, but would include 9.1-9.5 which is the bulk of the chapter.<\/p>\n<p><b>Option #2<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>Exam #3 would be moved to <b>Thursday, November 19<\/b>, i.e., you would take<br \/>\nthe exam during your conference hour and in your conference room. The<br \/>\nexam would cover all of Chapter 9 right through section 9.8. To support<br \/>\nthis, the next homework assignment would also cover all of chapter 9 and<br \/>\nthe due date would be extended. Monday, November 16 would just be a normal lecture (finishing chapter<br \/>\n9?, starting Chapter 10).<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, option #2 is a much more sensible way to proceed (but it has<br \/>\nnever occurred to me before to use conference time in this way). I would<br \/>\nlike to follow option #2, but because this is a major schedule change, I<br \/>\nwould like to consult with the class first. Please <b><a href=\"mailto:alan@reed.edu\">let me know<\/a><\/b> ASAP if<br \/>\nyou have any objections to option #2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&apos;ve been looking over Chapter #9 and the schedule for the next two weeks and I&apos;m kicking around two options in my mind. Option #1Exam #3 would still be on Monday, November 16. However, if the exam were to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-schedule","category-exams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5153,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/5153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}