Greetings!
We had a productive time in class today. We started with a short discussion about bias in the news media. Years ago, an infographic was published that should political leanings and reliability of many national news sites. The purpose of our discussion was not to promote any media source or ideology, but to remind students to be critical thinkers who evaluate what they are reading.
For this class, students will write 2 rough drafts of College Application Essays. These will be essays that they could potentially use for their own college applications. This week we worked through sample of multiple drafts of a student essay. We discussed what did and did not work in each of the drafts and could see the types of improvements that made for a strong application essay. It's helpful to look at samples to get a more clear idea about what a good essay looks like. Over the next few weeks I have more samples that we'll discuss and analyze as a class.
We've finished the Math section of the ACT Prep and are now onto the Reading section of the test. The Reading test is passage-based with 40 questions and is 35 minutes long. The 4 passages are prose fiction, social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. The first strategy is to decide the personal order of the passages and then to work the passages and the questions. We covered basics this week and will go over some of the more challenging types of questions.
Have a blessed weekend!
Mrs. Prichard
Assignments for Next Week
Read Chapters 17 & 18
Take notes, highlight, underline, and flag sections
Read Summary for Chapter 17 on p. 244
- Work Sample passage (p. 261 – 263) (Answers in Ch. 25 on p. 394 - 395)
Reading Drill 1 on p. 269 – 271 (Answers in Ch. 25 on p. 395 - 396)
Start on College Application Essay #1 (Not due until March 31)
Links for This Week
ACT Prep Class Notes -- Week 9 (March 17)
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