Wednesday, 10/7/15

* Open
  • First, I apologize for all the Google emails. I didn't realize that you were inundated by such messages from me.   
    • Note, though, that I have upcoming assignments in your Google Classroom as some of them can be done digitally. 
      • This week:
        • College Essay #2
      • Next week:
        • Out of Class Experience
        • Outside Reading Annotation (we will do the writing portion in quarter 2)
  • Example College Essay for Darker Themes (In general, I would say it is wiser not to include very dark themes in your personal narrative.  It's challenging to show the positive truly eclipse the negative, but it is possible.)
* Inundate (v.): to flood; overflow
  • Latin: inundare "to overflow, run over"
  • Examples:
    • We are inundated by distractions, loosely packaged as information, on social media today.
    • "As a young surgeon in training at the  University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes, and eventually death." -- Richard Carmona
  • Before you move on, please compose a sentence with your vocabulary word that features an opening prepositional phrase.
* Show me Your RD; get a peer edit today. 

* Study Guide for a Middle Age Crisis

HW:
  • FD of Your Essay Printed in MLA format and including your prompt
  • Also please submit your FD to the Google Classroom Assignment
  • Study for the Quest
    • Grammar:  Sentence Types (Bedford Grammar Basics at the Back of the Book)
    • Practice Here 


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