Blog posts for 5/14

Post 1:

Evaluate your participation in this class during the fourth quarter, discussing your performance in each area.  Consider:

• General procedures: consistently coming to class prepared (pens/pencils, notebook, class materials, free reading, class reading), waiting to be dismissed, using time between classes for bathroom/water/locker trips, checking email and website at least daily, appropriate email communication, turning in assignments at the beginning of class, cooperative and helpful attitude
• Lecture, announcements, whole class discussion: listening to Dr. D, taking notes, contributing relevant comments, asking relevant and appropriate questions at appropriate times, listening to peers’ questions and comments, not engaging in side conversations (spoken, written, or body language)
• Individual and Group Work: focusing on task, actually doing the work, not distracting others, not engaging in conversations not relevant to task, helping the group stay focused and complete task, following instructions, aiming beyond minimum
• Growth: Compare your participation to the rest of the year

Post 2:

You may: 

a. )Write a letter to your classmates at the end of English I, or 

b.) create a study plan for my final.  

If you choose option b, make sure your plan is useful to you and includes enough details to be useful to others.  You should include days, times, and for each day and time, what you will do (like reviewing notes, creating examples, or creating a study guide, and what topic area you will focus on (literary analysis, research, Nervous Conditions, poetry, Macbeth).  

Besides the vocabulary and content knowledge we have talked about from these areas, your final will ask you to write a literary analysis essay that synthesizes your thinking about the reading we have done this semester and year.  So you may want to begin thinking about connections you can make between the units we have studied and conclusions you can draw.