Tuesday and Wednesday

TUESDAY
Counselors in all senior classes to discuss the details of the college application process. See the Counseling Office website for the video and various other information and necessary forms.

TODAY
Students received a Class Hand-out on the timing and basic details of the English class connection to the Senior Culminating Project. I thought the links it contained would remain live, but they did not.
Although all of this information can be accessed from the College and Career Center website, I'm including two important links here:

You can access the Resume Handbook here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B57_IJB75bs3anVFZ0xoNHdxMGs/edit?pli=1

You can access the full details on the Senior Culminating Project here:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B57_IJB75bs3NWRGeUdmdDlvaEE/edit?pli=1

Note that last year's due date has not been updated on that site: this year's date is Monday, Oct. 14!
But as noted on the class hand-out, the date for clearing your work with me is a few days earlier--Oct. 10.

Personal Esay
I also hit the highlights: everyone does one, there will be a peer response as part of the process, and you are strongly discouraged from dealing with the 4 D's: Divorce, Disease, Depression, and Death.

One option will be to select the University of Washington "personal statement" choices A or B.
You many also choose a topic from the Common Application. You'll be able to utilize Common App choices 1-5 without prior approval, and Common App #6 IF you get permission before you begin to write. The best uses for #6 are to substitute a true essay topic from a non-Common App school where you actually intend to apply. You can't use #6 for short blurbs on various topics (WSU 's app, for example) or for an essay that essentially describes what you would bring to a particular college or university and how an education from that school would benefit you. .

All of these topics will be printed out on the full assignment sheet, along with dates and a few more tips, in the next day or two. But you can start thinking now.

LITERATURE
Very briefly, we tried to finish reading "The Seafarer" for content.

•  6th period came the closest, though we need to quickly debrief the good work I heard you doing. 
• In 3rd finished the reading with some teacher-led efforts to summarize each separate content chunk of the last two full stanzas.
• in 4th we were doing the same process as 3rd, but we didn't really do the last stanza at all.

Tomorrow--
We will finish up ASAP, then read/apply poetic devices to the poem
Friday:  we will start the historical/cultural background component.

Next week--finish that up, then read (much more quickly) two more poems, assessing them for content, literary devices, AND for elements of the historical/cultural component.

Expect one quiz over the background material, and another quiz over the 3 poems/poetic devices.

THEN--we'll be ready to start Beowulf.