end of year

good luck on your Regent exams.

Have a great summer.

See you in the fall :)

Week of June 8th

Next week we will be doing eportfolio, conferencing and make up work... please come prepared...

Final projects and presentations

please email me your projects or links to your projects for grading.

Tomorrow is the last day to present your project.

You should be working on your eportfolios at home and in school.

College application process

Today in class we listened to a guest speaker who spoke to you about the college application process...

• Have you thought about your personal statement - avoid politics and religion, what is it about you that will make a reader want to finish your essay? What makes you unique?
• We discussed the common application and why it is not to your benefit to do it
• visit college and university websites - go to the admission page - look at requirements and essay questions
• Take the SAT and be prepared with at least 4 schools to send scores to
• Visit schools
• Does the school you'd like to go to require special tests or classes?
• Safe schools - a school that is a definite yes - everyone should apply to CUNY
• Reach schools - ones you want to go to, that may be a little or far above where your transcript and scores offer you?
• http://www.collegeboard.com/
• 2950 - UAPC Brooklyn - CUNY code for sending your SAT schools
• http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/national-search - top colleges
• write a resume

Make up work

all make up work is due June 12th - Friday

Final projects and presentations

All projects are due on Monday. Presentations begin on Monday. Everyone should be ready.

More task 4 help... and practice

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. "
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Analyze the quote... agree or disagree

and select 2 novels or pieces of lit that support your analysis...

remember analysis provides deep, probing thought... not just summary.

analysis: a philosophical method of exhibiting complex concepts or propositions as compounds or functions of more basic ones.

summary: a comprehensive and usually brief abstract, recapitulation, or compendium of previously stated facts or statements