Vacation assignment

Enjoy your Spring break! Over break, select an independent reading book, and read at least 25 pages. Develop one journal entry (of your choice) based on your reading.

Weekly update: Looking ahead to the week of March 15

The second draft of your college essay is due Friday, March 19

Weekly update: Looking ahead to the week of March 8

By Thursday, March 4, you should be up to date on reading chapters 1-4 of The Great Gatsby. There will be an exam on March 8. Please keep up with journals (1 for each chapter) and annotating with post-its whenever you feel inclined to do so.

Next Friday, March 12, the second draft of your college essay is due.

Weekly update: Looking ahead to the week of February 8

On Friday you will have a vocabulary and Greek and Latin roots test:

Greek and Latin roots: Duc- Fug

SAT words: laconic, idiosyncrasy, halcyon, obsequious, kismet, bombast, gratuitous, recondite, redolent, grotesque, obloquy, savant, bucolic, onus

Weekly update: Looking ahead to the week of February 8

Hello students!
I'm very excited about this upcoming semester. This week, your Huck Finn papers are due. I'm truly looking forward to reading your essays!

Looking ahead: selected students from this class will be invited to join us at the 92ns street Y on February 24 to see John Banville/Colum Mc Cann read. This week, the coordinator will be joining us to explain this event a little further.

We are about to begin reading one of my favorite books ever: The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald!

Over break you will do a little reading, as well as work on the first draft of your college essay.

This coming Friday, you will also have an SAT vocabulary/Greek and Latin roots test.

Please remember to organize your notebook and let's work on developing our note-taking skills!
Notebook checks will occur weekly

Remember: you can always email me your drafts; I'd be happy to "track changes" and annotate your pieces.

Huckblerry Finn by Mark Twain

http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Twa2Huc.html

This is a link to the full text

College Search Lesson

I found the college information session today very helpful. It provided me with new resources to use and also gave me new criteria to think about when I look at colleges. I believe this will help me with my college search process.

Jack

I learned several things today about searching online for colleges. Ilearned the differences between safety schools, target schools, andreach schools. I was given helpful hints in navigating a collegewebsite. The "How to Navigate a College Website" worksheet was trulyuseful in categorizing and organizing the loads of information providedon college websites. In using www.collegeview.com we found severalinteresting colleges. Particularly, the Community College of Guam, I'dsay it's definitely a reach school for me. Its address actually happensto be Sesame Street, which i found to be pretty comical thoughunfortunately, its president was not Big Bird or Elmo. Its a vocationalschool and it was recently featured on a Food Network TV Show. Theinformation I learned today is valuable and should help me find theright college for me whether it be in Guam, Hawaii, or the VirginIslands.Thomas

Today in the library i learned that colleges can get as specific as you want. there are lots of things that can determine a good college for youself involving majors, waether, minors, male female ratio, dorms, cash, poulation, and diversity. -Uzi

Today I investigated the many law schools new york has to offer and scholarships that can be attained in order to attend these schools. I learned that the University of Buffalo is one of the least expensive law schools within the top 100. I am planning on throughly researching UB and visiting it over summer break. -Ana

The library visit today taught me all of the important things I should be looking at when I apply to college. Previously I had focused mainly on the reputation of the school, but I now know of other aspects that may alter my decisions when looking at schools.-Julia

Today I learned that there are several different websites that have all the colleges in the United States. These websites gave a lot of different information on each college such as, the courses in the school, the SAT and ACT requirements, how expensive it is and how much financial aid is given. I really enjoyed this activity because it opened my eyes to a lot of different colleges and what Im looking for in a college. -Melissa L.


One thing that I learned today was the presidents message is actually significant. Normally when I would search schools I would just skip over the message because I was uninterested in what the person was talking about. Now I realize that it is very important because he is the head of the school and has plenty of say in what goes on. If I have any questions about the school, he/she would probably be one of the best people to find answers from. Next time that I search for a school I will make sure to read what the president has to say.

-Drew

What I learned about SUNY Binghamton
- Binghamton offers more than 80 academic undergraduate majors
- 84% of undergraduate students at Binghamton are residents of New York State.
- Binghamton employs around 600 full-time faculty, 93% of them have PhDs or equivalents in their fields.- Amy