First Day! First Day! August 16th!

Awesome Students~ This website will be your best friend this year! I post assignments, notes, assignment sheets, extra help, announcements, funny memes, etc. ALL HERE!!! Please check this daily!

1. Please respond to the "Welcome" Post (See post below) if you haven't already. This was sent in the August 7th email. Please do so by the end of the day today (August 16th-11:59 PM).

2. Yearbook is asking for all English students to take the following interest survey. Please do so by Friday! Yearbook Survey

3. For Thursday, August 17th, please read the article, "What Do Student's Lose By Being Perfect? Valuable Failure". I gave you this in hard-copy form for a specific purpose. I want you to interact with the document by annotating as you read.  Here is a digital copy for you, just in case. Nevertheless, make sure you have a hard copy when you come to class.
"What do Students Lose by Being Perfect" article

Some suggestions in annotating this article..

• What ideas do you find intriguing? What haven't you thought about before? What do you agree with?Disagree with? 
• What words spark more dimensions than just the basic denotation (dictionary definition). More emotions? More meaning? Specific perspective/bias? 
• What can you relate with in this article? What other sides/perspectives do you recognize? 
• Identify two points that come from your annotations that you can share in discussion on Thursday. Make sure that these are clearly written down.. and findable for class on Thursday.