Everyone Write 1500 Words!

Last year during the Galileo game, some students were confused about how to write the papers if they are sharing a role. Thus, this semester, I repeated the policy several times in class to avoid confusion. However, some people still are not turning in their own papers and are instead turning in "group" papers. Let me be clear. Even if you are sharing a role, such as Conservative Cardinal 1, every single student writes his or her own 1500 words for this game. Usually this will be in the form of a 1000-word main paper and a 500-word secondary paper. Some roles require one 1500-page paper or six 250-page papers. If you are sharing a role, you split up the topic, but everyone turns in their own 1500 during this game. If two people turn in a single paper, they will receive half-credit for it.

College of Rome in KOBC 204 today!

Remember that we're meeting in KOBC 204 today for "The College of Rome." On Friday, we'll meet in Holt Chapel. On Monday, we'll meet at Lighthouse for Prince Cesi's party. After Thanksgiving Break, we'll return to Holt Chapel on Monday and Wednesday for Holy Office Day 2 and the Conclave. On Friday, we'll come back to MCMI 207 to wrap-up the game.

Submitting Your Galileo Letters

I've created a discussion board on Blackboard to post your papers for the Galileo game. To access it, click on the "Galileo Discussion" button on the left.

While you can draft your paper in Microsoft Word, you will need to copy-and-paste it into the Discussion Board. Since there are no defined pages on the discussion board, I have changed to 2-page requirement to 500 words and the 4-page requirement to 1000 words. If you need to upload pictures, illustrations or figures, do that in the separate "Graphics" folder on Blackboard.

Since these are supposed to look like "letters" and not academic papers, they should not have a bibliography. Instead, they should cite any quoted works in the text itself. You might write something like:

Galileo, in The Starry Messenger, described his observations of a multitude of new stars in the Milky Way. "We are freed from wordy disputes upon this subject, for the Galaxy is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters."

I will be using this Grading Rubric to grade the papers.