Week 4

Here is a link to the prompts: 2018-2019 Common App Essay Prompts

Getting started...your story or the prompt? Consider the "backwards brainstorm."

Week 4

Do Now: Please complete the short survey.

1.Your Priorities
2.Thinking Ahead
3.Independent work time

HW: Find your upcoming due dates on reading journals and annotated books.

Need a break from reading and/or journaling? Try some practice SAT questions here: https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sample-questions/writing/1

Week 3

Do Now: Please take out your reading calendar. How are you doing so far with developing a daily reading habit?

Agenda:
1. "On the Rainy River" practice
2. Observe / Connect / Conclude
3. September assignments
4. Independent work time

HW: Continue bringing your PS1 book and any other senior English work to class.

Week 2

Do Now: Annotating (i.e., actively reading and marking up a text) can be done in many different ways. How do you annotate something you have to read for English class?

1. Annotations
2. Modelling/Practice with "Waiting"
3. Independent work time and meetings

HW: Keep reading and bringing your materials to class.

Week 2

“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”

1) Short survey

2) Making a plan for September (reading and journaling about PS1)

3) Work time and Conferencing 

HW: Bookmark our class page (reynolds12T.blogspot.com) and bring your PS1 book (i.e., your first thesis book).

What is the Senior Thesis?

• Choosing an author/topic (May/June of 11th grade)
• Reading and annotating primary sources (i.e., novels) (Summer before 12th grade/Fall)
• Journaling about primary sources (Fall-Early Winter)
• Finding, reading, annotating, and journaling about secondary sources (i.e., articles about your novels) (Fall-Early Winter)
• Developing an argument and outlining (February)
• Drafting big idea papers (March-April)
• Submitting a final draft (Friday before April vacation)