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Senior Surveys!!

Here are the links: Class of 2018 Senior Survey – Part 1 https://goo.gl/forms/D5r9W5PCZWts86Ie2 Class of 2018 Senior Survey – Part 2 https://goo.gl/forms/lfEzBav8bXia4tVq2 Please take each!

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R&W: Life Lessons, Journal #6, and TLL

You had the hour to finish your life lesson project due by the end of the hour today to this folder. You should be through pg. 188 of TLL as we are finishing the book for Wednesday. Journal # 6 … Continue reading

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All classes: Weekend Update

R&W: You had a vocab quiz today, and afterwards you were given the time to work on the following: Life Lesson Last Lecture Presentation Project due by the end of the hour on Monday TLL reading through pg. 188 for … Continue reading

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R&W: DP Conferences + TLL reading, journaling and mini-life lesson project assigned

We continued digital portfolio conferences while you worked on reading through pg. 92 of TLL for tomorrow as well as writing journal #4 due by tomorrow night. I also assigned this TLL life lesson mini-project/presentation. It is due May 14th … Continue reading

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R&W: Vocab, Grammar, DPs and TLL

We first went over and submitted the possessive worksheet from Wednesday before taking our vocab quiz (I checked in definitions first). From there I completed three more DP conferences while you worked on journal #3 for tonight, and reading through … Continue reading

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R&W: Digital Portfolio Conferences, etc., etc.

We began digital portfolio conferences today while you were SSRing and grammaring regarding possessive pronouns, possessives and contractions (worksheet due Friday). You were then given the remainder of the time to work on the following TLL Journal #2 due tonight … Continue reading

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R&W: Digital Portfolio Final Work day

Digital portfolios must be completed in their entirety to begin conferencing tomorrow, Wednesday, May 2nd. Your link should be uploaded here before first hour tomorrow. We will SSR/grammar tomorrow, and you should have read through pages 1-34 for tomorrow and your second journal … Continue reading

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R&W: Intro to The Last Lecture (Final Unit!)

Today, distributed The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. The journal assignments were also distributed today. The calendar/journal prompts are linked here. I asked you to take some notes (about 10 background facts) on him and the book today before beginning to read or beginning to journal … Continue reading

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RW4CB: Digital Portfolio/Cover Letter Worktime

We had the last full hour to work on digital portfolios and our cover letters in the library. There may be other days where we have some time to work, but ultimately this is the last day where the whole … Continue reading

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R&W: Interview Speed Rounds

For the first part of the hour, we spent doing rounds of interviewing where we took on the role of both the interviewee/interviewer at different junctures. we did about 6 practice interviews total. Afterwards you had time to work on … Continue reading

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