1. Make sure that your summer reading is uploaded to both Google Classroom AND Turnitin.com by 11:59 PM on August 16th (THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL). You were sent an email on August 7th with detailed instructions on how to to upload your assignment.
2. Yearbook is asking for all English students to take the following interest survey. Please do so by Friday! Yearbook Survey
3. For Thursday, August 17th, please read the article, "What Do Student's Lose By Being Perfect? Valuable Failure". I gave you this in hard-copy form for a specific purpose. I want you to interact with the document by annotating as you read. Here is a digital copy for you, just in case. Nevertheless, make sure you have a hard copy when you come to class.
"What do Students Lose by Being Perfect" article
Some suggestions in annotating this article..
- What ideas do you find intriguing? What haven't you thought about before? What do you agree with?Disagree with?
- What words spark more dimensions than just the basic denotation (dictionary definition). More emotions? More meaning? Specific perspective/bias?
- What can you relate with in this article? What other sides/perspectives do you recognize?
- What connections can you make with the ideas expressed in this article with what you read in The Alchemist?
- Identify two points that come from your annotations that you can share in discussion on Thursday. Make sure that these are clearly written down.. and findable for class on Thursday.
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