<p>it does, and you want to keep your participation up to keep those points, but that’s not what you should be thinking about.</p>
<p>people don’t realize how much the last two essays in 140 are worth - you have the 4th essay, the 5th essay, and your rewrite (people usually rewrite the 4th essay)</p>
<p>so if you do well on the last two essays you probably will do well in the class. So really focus on that 4th essay and do everything you can (talk to teacher, go to writing center, have your friends read it, etc) to make it good because then you’ll get good points for both the 4th essay and the rewrite of the 4th essay, which is almost 50% of the points for the class.</p>