For our college essay can it be longer than 250 words? I have the short story topic

Mrs. Moon

Sorry to bother you again, but do we have 10 questions due to tomorrow for our interview? I don't remember talking about in class but it's in my planner for some reason.

Is it okay if we use contractions and first person in our college essay, or should it be more formal?

Mrs. Moon

Can our college essay be completely fictional or does it have to have some truth? By the way I'm doing mine on the mustard topic.

Mrs. Moon

I know you said we can't use one source for an entire paragraph, but what do I do if that one source is all I have? I've searched for different sources to use in my paragraph but all the information is basically the same...

Blue and Gold

Go Bucs!

Totally tubular

What a bunch of nerds

Go America!

Here you are in all of your red, white, and blue glory!

Don't forget your grammar homework and your outline and notecards for tomorrow!

Happy Monday!

Hope your day off from school was great! I had a great day, too, as I had to present an annotation of Othello to all of the English teachers in the county and it went perfectly!

DO NOT forget all of your note cards tomorrow! Also, we will be going over vocabulary list 4 and learning about sentence types. Fun stuff!

Tomorrow is America day--dress in your finest red, white, and blue!

See you tomorrow!

Blog Assignment #2

For this assignment, you must choose or change your profile picture. This is more of a competition than an assignment, really. The funniest/best profile picture wins. So, the picture doesn't have to be of you--just a funny/great picture from the Internet or wherever.

When you have decided on your picture, write a random comment so we can see your picture!

This is due by Monday at 8:00 pm.

May the best picture win!

Does anyone know if the heading counts twords the 22 lines in the reflection?

Look right!

No, not there! Look to the right on the blog!

Now vote for which thing you would like to do tomorrow. This is one of the few times our class will be democratic, so make your voice heard!

Don't forget vocab is due tomorrow!

Only one hour left

To post your comment to blog assignment #1.

Get to it!

Football!

Did you see that Carolina game?!? Sooo close--they were right there and couldn't convert. What a bummer!

Now my Gamecocks are playing! Get ready for a butt whooping!

Who did you root for today?

Blog Assignment #1

Hi all!

For your first blog assignment, I'm taking it easy on you. All you have to do is read this article and comment on it. I want you to think about what the article is saying and give me your opinions, thoughts, questions, etc. One line of commenting will not be sufficient!

Remember: type in correct grammar and complete sentences.

Due by Sunday at 10:00 pm.

Good luck!

For Friday

OK, so here's what you have due tomorrow:

1. Advisor log signature
2. Frankenstein study guides (one for letters and one for 1-5)
3. 10 note cards (by the end of the block)

Don't forget we also have a vocab quiz and a Frank quiz.

We will make it to the lab for a bit tomorrow and that will be the last time we go together as a class! So you need to be sure that you are finding sources while we are there.

Monday we go to the library so you can work and spread out at the tables. It's great to spread out!

See you tomorrow!

Just to be sure...

Class was super busy and rushed today, so I just wanted to be sure we are all on the same page:

If your letter was accepted, tonight you will do a preliminary search on your topic. Here, you are looking for recurring ideas, opinions, arguments, etc. Then try to determine what your outline will look like.

If your letter was rejected, you are fixing your letter of intent. Then, you need to print out your new letter and bring BOTH your old (rejected) letter and your new (improved) letter to class tomorrow.

Of course, everyone is working on your vocab paragraph and reading Frankenstein.

If you have any questions, ask me here on the blog!

Stuff

Hope your weekend is going well! No real homework for English makes it a little bit brighter, right?

My Gamecocks won!!

And I saw this horribly awful mug while out shopping!

Oh by the way, if you are ever out and about or even at home and spot an egregious spelling/grammar error, take a picture of it (or bring it in if possible) and you will receive extra credit points!

See you tomorrow! Letters of intent come back! Ahhh!

For Friday 07 September

Hi all! Hope you are polishing that college essay and studying for your vocabulary quiz!

Speaking of your college essay, please make sure that it is double (or at least 1.5) spaced when you hand it in tomorrow. This is how I will want most of your essays/writings; it makes it much easier for me to write comments.

Thanks and see you tomorrow!

Abstract

I was informed that the abstract that is online has been modified by a student. I'm working on fixing the issue.

What you can do is just copy and paste the form into a new Word document and erase all her information and just type yours in.

OR

Here is the link to the abstract. I think the font is a bit different, but don't worry about that!

Let me know if you have any major issues.

Don't forget your 2 letters tomorrow and your vocab letter to Obama!

YAYAY!! Go Honors English 4 Blogger!

I was thinking...

of playing a little game in class tomorrow, but I don't know everyone's feelings on that. Maybe some people hate games in class and want to do guided notes.

So, if 10 people comment on this post that, yes, they do want to play a game instead of doing British history guided notes, then we will. If 10 people don't comment, then we will do the notes. I like both and don't care either way!

Random stuff...

You have until Wednesday at 10:00 pm to log on and post to the blog. If you are unable to log on, you need to see me during class so we can fix the issue. I will be grading the posts on Wednesday.

We have a lot going on:

1. Letter of intent and abstract due Thursday
2. Letter to Obama due Thursday
3. College essay due Friday
4. Vocabulary quiz Friday

Keep working and using your time wisely!

What's that?

Happy Labor Day!

Hope you are enjoying this lovely holiday and spending it productively! (Namely, working on your short story project or college essay).

Do you know the history behind Labor Day? Do you know why we celebrate it?

Well, if you are one of the first 2 people to answer those questions in the comments section, you will win a special prize in class tomorrow.

Good luck!