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Senior ELA News, Updates, and the Like: Read

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Yesterday we had a guest speaker from Mercy College so we didn't have the opportunity to continue working on our Socratic Seminar class reading and worksheets. Today, however, we finished the assigned reading (posted below and continued from the last post). Tomorrow your Socratic Seminar worksheets are due! I will not be accepting them after tomorrow. Here's the reading we completed today. My last two posts have the text before this point, so please read it if you haven't. "You like baseball, don't you, Montag?" "Baseball's a fine game." Now Beatty was almost invisible, a voice somewhere behind a screen of smoke "What's this?" asked Mildred, almost with delight. Montag heaved back against her arms. "What's this here?" … [Read more...]

WHSAD’s College Preparedness Workshop

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With the college application process in full swing WHSAD seniors welcomed some additional advice from Heather Butts, JD, MPH, MA the Co-Founder and Executive Director of H.E.A.L.T.H for Youths, a non profit organization  dedicated to promoting and encouraging youth to reach their full potential. Heather covered essential topics to the college application process from navigating through the Common Application, writing a college essay that stands out, succeeding at the interview and most importantly how to go about getting scholarships. The students were extremely engaged and gained new insight on the application process. In the spring Heather will be back to present another College Readiness workshop for WHSAD's Freshmen, Sophomores, and … [Read more...]

21 October 2013 – Aim and Assignments

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“The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.” - Klemens von Metternich, foreign minister of Austria, led the Congress of Vienna after Napoleon's reign in Europe. Aim: How do we write a conclusion for the French Revolution DBQ? Homework, Due 10/25 - Complete handouts on Otto von Bismarck (handouts are attached to this post.) - Study notes for quiz thursday, 10/24 [gview file="https://www.whsad.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Bismarck.pdf"] [gview file="https://www.whsad.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/unification-of-germany-worksheet.pdf"] … [Read more...]

Tarea 10/21

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Aim: How do we tell the difference between ser and estar? / How do we talk about a house and the things inside? Due: 10/22 Write 5 sentences in English answering the following question: ¿Quién es Julieta Venegas? Extra credit: Write the sentences in Spanish intead.   REMINDER: Study for the quiz tomorrow Tuesday (10/22/13) … [Read more...]

Thematic Essay

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Here is the essay question from Friday, October 18. A task chart must be completed and turned in. [gview file="https://www.whsad.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Thematic-Essay-1018.doc"] … [Read more...]

Senior ELA Update, News, Thoughts, and Wisdom

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"Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind." -Captain Beatty, Fahrenheit 451 Today and yesterday we continued reading the passage which we will be used to conduct our next Socratic Seminar. If you missed class, and I know some of you did, make sure you have read the passage below (that's right, I copy and paste for you) and continue filling out the Socratic Seminar sheet, which you can download from my previous post. Here's the text we read yesterday and today: He had chills and fever in the morning. "You can't be sick," said Mildred. … [Read more...]