CALENDAR SECTION
Wednesday, Oct. 1:    Personal Essay--Final Draft & Peer Response Day (turnitin.com by 9:55 a.m.)
Folder for "Final Draft Personal Essay" now open.

***IMPORTANT INFORMATION***
With the help of Mrs. Cote in the College and Career Center and her contacts in the admissions world, we have resolved an issue that several people brought to my attention today.  I have disabled the "student repository" section of turnitin.com.  Your essay will still be evaluated against commercial sites, online journals and other media, etc., but if a school or even the Common App people were to assess your paper, it would not show up as a match with your very own paper.  No worries!

CULMINATING PROJECT, a state high school graduation requirement:  OCT. 15

12th grade: Senior English classes assign a Resume and and answer to Question #1 in September. Note: Resumes completed in Bridges in 10th grade cannot be used for your senior resume. All Seniors (even those not in English classes at IHS) must complete a resume and the typed answer to Question 1. The resume and question 1 are turned into the Career Center by October 15th of senior year. Senior Resume Guidelines and Expectations

Senior Packet for the Culminating Project
See the resume section of the College Resource Handbook for more help with resumes.
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TODAY IN CLASS
Returned long-lost first week "fictional worlds" papers and the All the Pretty Horses objective reading test (just keep it to make sure what shows up online matches; typos happen). More importantly, I returned the "bath scene" quickwrite papers along with some encouragement for incorporating ample quotations from the text (along with some VERY close paraphrases, perhaps) as the basis for your own analysis and commentary.

"Miss Brill" --four or five paragraphs?? We're focussing on how Miss Brill's personality and lifestyle are revealed via her day in the park.

FOR TOMORROW
The "Setting" chapter hand-out is to be read for tomorrow; I'm not assigning written work to go along with it  (some could arise later) because the rest of the time should be devoted to the personal essay.  I know some of you are thoroughly done, but many are still crafting significant improvements, I hope.

See the reassurance above re: turnitin.com if you skipped the top calendar section.