Week 9

End of the quarter catch-up time!

Week 8

Do Now: Open your college essay draft or one of your thesis journals. Using the handout, change the beginnings of at least two sentences.

1) Varying Sentence Beginnings
2) College Essay Questions
3) Independent Work

Week 7

Anthony Burgess begins A Clockwork Orange with this hook

Do Now: Read over the sample hooks and think about how or why they might be considered effective.

1)Thesis questions?
2)College essay meetings
3)Independent work time

Week 6

Do Now: Are you keeping pace with your English assignments? Make a list of anything that you haven't yet finished.

1) College Essay Resources
2) Working on Secondary Sources or Reading PS2

Week 5

Do Now: Please tell me how I can help you make the best use of your time in 12T.

1. Try out at least two practice SAT questions.
2. Test-taking strategies
3. Independent Work

HW: Keep bringing your English materials and work to class!