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Senior English 9/9/13. What do you think is the value of public education? Or is there a better way for you to be spending your time? What's the difference between a teacher and a train? MAD – Mutual Assured Destruction. A concept in nuclear planning .
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Senior English 9/9/13 • What do you think is the value of public education? Or is there a better way for you to be spending your time? • What's the difference between a teacher and a train? • MAD – Mutual Assured Destruction. A concept in nuclear planning. Goals – Review funny metaphor sentences from last Thursday. Discussion of mental cowards article. Analysis of value of education article. Homework – Complete analysis of “value" article.
Senior English 9/10/13 • What are your habits of mind that help you be successful? Which of your habits may get in the way of your academic success? • Why do bees have sticky hair? • OAO – One and Only. Used in the naval Academy to refer to one’s sweetheart. Goals – Discuss how the articles we have been reading will affect the goals of this class. Analyze “Perils and Promise” article. Homework – Don’t forget to study for Vocab 2 on Friday. Complete a well thought out commentary about how you perceive your own habits of mind.
Senior English 9/11/13 • Do you know of any tricks to make your writing more interesting? What is your strategy for starting writing tasks? • Why are frogs never upset? • SAPFU – Surpassing All Previous Foul Ups Goals – Discuss “Perils and Promise…”. Spice up your writing with descriptive detail and figurative language. Homework – Write an extended descriptive passage about a guy with too much swag or a “selfie.”
Senior English 9/12/13 • Which is more important kindness or fairness? • How do you make friends with a squirrel? • SUSFU – Situation Unchanged Still Fouled up Goals – Learn a little about appositives and how to use them. Practice writing appositives. Homework – Complete the constructing appositives exercise. Don’t forget to study for vocab.3 quiz tomorrow.
Senior English 9/13/13 • Five minutes to review for the vocab. 2 quiz. • What is the difference between bird flu and swine flu? • SWAG – Scientific Wild A**edGuess Goals – Complete vocab. 3 study. Analyze and write a response to a poem. Homework – none.