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Monday, September 30, 2013

College App Essay Review / Poe's "Masque of the Red Death"

Grade 12
  • Returned and reviewed essay #3. Students were reminded that the audience for these college application essays is a hypothetical college admissions committee. The essays must:
    • Reveal the student.
    • Show personal growth.
    • Be positive.
  • Went over some common mechanical errors, especially verb forms.
  • Continued The Power of Myth video.
  • Group A journals due tomorrow.
  • Essay #4 due tomorrow for peer review.

Grade 10
  • Opening journal entry: Write about an important event in your life.
    • HW: Rewrite on a separate sheet of paper to be handed in.
  • Added the word "Allegory" to the vocabulary list.
  • Started reading "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe.

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