Wednesday, December 12, 2012

The Final

Some of you take the final.

Have a safe and restful break.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Count Day

I return your daybooks.

What do you need to do?  Read.  Find something -- cracked.com/ kotaku.com(blocked)/ discovermagazine.com/ mikeroweworks.com/mikes-office/farming///jalopnik.com/


You fill out the handout and count your pages.

If you need to take the final, you need to read ONE of the following:


“NFL: Dodging the Concussion Discussion?” by Frank Deford
 pages 573-574 in The Bedford Guide  
OR 
“Be Cool to the Pizza Dude” by Sarah Adams pages 615-616 in
 Bedford.

Monday, December 10, 2012

About Writing

The power of writing.

The young army officer:


Newly arrested:
 

Released after eight years:


The first eye-opener:

The big secret:
 
 
The Berlin Wall came down twenty years later, and soon so did the Soviet Union:
 
 
 
Turn in your daybooks.
 
Tomorrow, bring all your papers -- the version that was graded is what will be counted.  Also, bring the grading grid/rubric for each paper.