T'n'E Club - Can your name shape your personality?

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G10 - The State

An interesting discussion in light of our reading of Thoreau today. Click here.

EWL - College Application Prompts

As stated here, "The essay demonstrates your ability to write clearly and concisely on a selected topic and helps you distinguish yourself in your own voice. What do you want the readers of your application to know about you apart from courses, grades, and test scores?"

Here are the prompts:

1. Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
   
2. The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later
   success. Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
   
3. Reflect on a time when you challenged a belief or idea. What prompted you to act? Would you make the same decision again?
   
4. Describe a problem you’ve solved or a problem you’d like to solve. It can be an intellectual challenge, a research query, an ethical dilemma-anything that is of personal importance, no matter the scale. Explain its significance to you and what steps you took or could be taken to identify a solution.
   
5. Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.
   

We are going to work with a 650 word limit.

G9 - OMaM News

Ms. White has kindly agreed to the 'Distributed Drama' model we discussed.

G10 - Emerson Bio

If you wish to transcend the base requirements of the HW, and strive to excel, click here and also here. These will help you with the HW.

G10 Self-Reliance HW

Due on Friday.

EWL - College Applications That Worked

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G7 - A Trek to the Antarctic

T'n'E Club - Freedom of Speech

This week, a change. You can listen to Roger Scruton's argument, and note any key ideas that jump at you. Or, if you want the text, click here. Wow, that quite a bit a freedom I'm giving you!

G7 - Map

Due at the beginning of class tomorrow.

G6 - WiT Chap 9-12 Test

We will have the test on October 26th.

Alexander the Great

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The Plague

Read up to, and including, p232

The Alphabet

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G7 HW - Finish writing in your notebooks

G10 PSAT Info

Gumsters Are Coming!

G6 Reading

By Thursday, have finished the book.

T'n'E Club - The Joy of Text

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G7 HW - Knights

p217, Qs 1-6 and Qs 1-2

G9 HW - OMaM Study Pack

Do Sections 7, 11, 12, 13, 14.

Ambatovy Field Trip

Don't forget the dress code that Mrs. Russell warned you about.

G6 - Good & Evil

By Friday, have read up to and including Chapter 8. Also, don't forget to finish the activity we started today. See you on Friday.

Jabberwocky

One of my favourite poems.

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Click here for a version that will give you nightmares!

G6 HW - WiT Vocab

G9 Monday, October 12th - Test

We will have a test to review OMaM.

Topics to study are:

1. The four kinds of figurative language we discussed
2. Who the characters are
3. Basic plot points
4. What is represented by some of the secondary characters
5. The ebb and flow of George and Lennie's relationship
6. The ethics of Georges decision at the end of the novel

G10 HW - Book Apotheosis

• It needs to be ready to hand in by the end of class on Tuesday. 
• E-mail me the digital file with the file named as such: YOURNAME Book Essay.docx
• TNR 12, Double Spaced, Narrow Margin
• Footnotes with proper Citations must be used (see the leftmost whiteboard)

For the attention of Ms. Zia Harrison

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