Did someone say ADVENTURE????

Greetings & Salutations, my fellow Middle Earthlings! 
While your fellow classmates are slaving away in their other classes, you will be embarking on an incredible adventure – a Hobbit adventure, that is.
Over the next two days, your quest will be to fulfill four Hobbit tasks.  I’ve even set up a special place at which to begin [...]

So…Poe…

These couple of weeks around All Hallow’s Eve are some of my favorites of the year!  POE IS MY HOMEBOY! 
I hope that yesterday gave you a BRIEF insight to the GENIUS that is Edgar Allan Poe.  He was a brilliant, tortured writer who wrote about the miseries and horror that he lived.  
Today we’ll explore his [...]

Welcome back!

I hope you all had a restful three-day-weekend!  Don’t you wish EVERY weekend was a three-day weekend?
I’ve got your first offical Edmodo online assignment details!  We’ll complete one or two of these every six weeks!
 
Q1. What is the assignment?
Your assignment is to write a narrative (a story, fiction or non-fiction) inspired by one of three [...]

Advice From Peeps Who Have Gone Before

Well, Peeps, our time together is coming to a close!  It’s been a wild ride, but I hope you feel like you’ve come out it a stronger student and ready for your Pre-AP classes in high school.  Next fall, I’ll be facing a class room of poor little baby 8th graders, and will begin [...]

REALITY CHECK – YOUR HIGH SCHOOL ACTION PLAN, DAY 2

Welcome back, Lions! 
Today you have two tasks to complete:
1. Finish the assignment from yesterday.
2. Fill out 4 charts on 4 colleges of your choice, using the links & information you’ll find HERE.

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REALITY BITES – Your High School Action Plan

Greetings, Regulators!
Moving forward in our Career Research…
Today we’ll look specifically at the transition from high school to college.  Click the link below:
Click here to view your assignment and the links that go with it!

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Have you started memorizing yet?

Click here!

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REALITY BITES – Career Research, Phase 2

Over the course of the next few days, you will be busy working on two different aspects of your career research:
1. Pages 14 – 32 of your Career Research Packet
2. The online activities detailed on the Reality Bites handout you received in class today.
Please click on the link below to continue:
REALITY BITES – Career Research [...]

Using Shakespeare’s Language Assignment – Pre-AP

Hear Ye, All Pre-APeeps! I haveth a small online assignment for thou.  Go-eth to the link below and discovereth your Shakespearean name.  Then leaveth me a Shakespearean comment using some of the Elizabethan terms on page 56 of your study guide.  Don’t forget-eth to includeth your real name along with your Shakespeare name!  Make this [...]

So…the rumor is ACTUALLY true this time.

It’s true!  Jack over at Brainyflix.com is actually passing the torch to me this week, and I’ll be judging the weekly Brainypics contest.  I’m so excited, because as you all know, vocab is kind of my “thing”.    It’s totally fun, because not only will entering the contest give you a chance to expand your vocabulary [...]