Monday, October 8, 2012

Revise Hero Essay

Students - DUE Thurs Oct 11th  or Friday Oct 12th

Please log into Myaccess.com* and edit/revise your Definition of a Hero essay.  The edited/revised version should fix the following errors:
Editing
1. Spelling
2. Grammar (especially Sub/Verb agreement)
3.  No contractions
4. No 2nd person pronouns (you, your, yours)
5.  No use of the word "Reason(s)"
Revising
1. Intro paragraph must include a thesis sentence  
2. Length must be 5 paragraphs
3.  Must answer prompt / be on topic

If the following steps are followed (and time and care are taken) no revised essay should earn below a 4.0 holistic score.

*Login = Firstname student# (no spaces)
  Password = 999lastname

DEADLINE UPDATE

OMM Portfolio deadline has been moved to October 15 (bl 4) and 16 (bl 1, 5).   All work must be turned in on those days.

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Vocabulary Document for OMM Portfolio

The Google Document for the vocabulary portion of the Of Mice and Men Portfolio has now been shared with every student via their G-Star email.  Any one who did not receive the document should see me immediately for troubleshooting.

Students email addresses should be in the following format:  Lastname.gstar.yearofgraduation@gmail.com
ex.  Smith.gstar.2015@gmail.com