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For Friday, read the essay about academic failure, and answer the questions for Study and Discussion on page 513. Your responses go in your writers notebook.

For Thursday’s class, read “As They Say, Drugs Kill” on pages 505-508. Do Questions for Study and Discussion, # 1-6.

In class today, you should make sure you’ve uploaded your speech and made your 2 comments on Youth Voices. Next, share your JHP draft with a partner and with Mr. Sloan.

Finally, begin researching for your multimedia Google Presentation on the years that your profile subject went to Judge. Revision of profile is due Friday; Presentation is due Tuesday, 11/4. Share this Google Presentation with Mr. Sloan too.

Create a Voice Thread where you present four different aspects of your identity or four different communities that are important to you.  Consider your age, culture, background, gender, or anything else that might help show who you are.  Illustrate each one with an original photograph.

Here’s a link to an assignment about responding to one of the Letters to the Next President. This will be a post to your blog done in class on 10/27, but it doesn’t count for your weekly post. This post is IN ADDITION TO the weekly post to Youth Voices about an inquiry topic you have.

For Tuesday, write a 500-word story about a Judge or St. Mary alum.  Be sure to bring in your interview notes along with your story.

Here’s a link to a good explanation of the elements of design. And here’s another one about the golden mean.

For Tuesday, 10/21: Complete #1-5 in Questions for Study and Discussion, and #1 in Suggested Writing Activities.

For Friday, share your inquiry topics with Mr. Sloan.  Then make a post about one of your questions (with snippets) to Youth Voices.

Check out these media websites from other schools.

• University High, Chicago
• Palo Alto High, California
• Granite Hills, California
• Carmel High, Indiana

When you finish reading 1984, you’ll read one of the following books:

Utopian works
Utopia, Sir Thomas More
The Republic, Plato
Dystopian novels
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

Or another book in this genre (check with Mr. Sloan first)