Grade Proposal

The goal of this assignment is to reflect on what you have learned this semester and make a case for the course letter grade that you feel you have earned. I will read your self-assessments and take all of your analysis into account before assigning a final course grade.

Instructions

Please answer the following questions in your self-assessment. You are invited to submit your self-assessment in a way that is authentic to you (see Submission details below):

What letter grade would you give yourself in this class? Answer each of the following questions and use these answers as evidence to support your reasoning:

What have you learned about yourself as a learner? As a creator of history? As a witness to current events?

Reflect on the content and assignments offered in this class. How much time and effort did you put forth? Do you feel like you took away meaningful skills, ideas, etc.? When answering these questions please address the following:

How many assignments did you complete? all 13

How many received a Success mark?12

1. How many received an Almost There mark? 1
2. How many received a Please submit mark? 1

Did you develop the following skills/competencies (student learning outcomes)?

Analyze, evaluate, and interpret primary and secondary sources.

• Analyze historical patterns and trends and relationships between past and present events. Evaluate and apply historical events to students’ current experiences.

Analyze how power and bias operates in society, through the categories of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality.

Develop and support an argument or thesis statement with historical evidence.

• 3. What were some of your favorite topics, ideas, or people discussed in the course? What resonated with you the most? Feel free to speak to your personal, cultural, social, political, familial, ancestral (and any other) identities and/or experiences.  
• 4. Was there something you wrote, produced, or learned about of which you are especially proud? If so, what was it?
• 5. What do you think about the grading structure and process in this class (no points and assessing your own work)? 

6. Offer any other insights about your engagement in the course that you would like to share.