While future blogs will most likely cover more details regarding writing and mechanics, today's blog will be on the short side. First off, welcome to Advanced Composition, a class in which the goal is to make you stronger writers that recognize the importance of every detail.
To begin class today, we chatted about college credit courses, what you want to improve during the class, and what adjective best describes you entering the final semester of your high school career.
After looking at the syllabus, you copied down the first 12 words of vocab unit 1. To learn vocabulary and maintain its meaning in our daily vernacular and written projects, you will become vocab experts on one word. A vocab expert gathers the definition, at least two synonyms (preferably not from the class vocab book), and a memory trick to help your classmates understand the word's meaning. Today, our small nine were assigned their given word and will prep the aforementioned components for tomorrow's class. Absentees, don't fret - you will have your word tomorrow.
At the end of class, we discussed e-mail communications by looking at sample e-mails and suggestions for the five components necessary in a professional e-mail. During tomorrow's class, you will have the whole hour (unless you all finish early and we have a great deal of time on the clock) to write 3 e-mails to me. One e-mail will be on a question for an assignment; one e-mail for an absence; one e-mail for turning in an assignment.
While we are a class of 12, that number will work wonders for paper writing and revisions. See you tomorrow -- sans snow, of course.
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