Next Year

If you're here looking for the AP Summer Assignment, you found it!

Is it late August and are you terrified you won't finish the summer assignment and thinking about dropping the class?

Hey, future students!!

The Atlantic in my mailbox just today (July/August edition) has declared the End of Men. Read about it. It’s a long article, but it is well worth it.

If you’re a girl, be afraid of the demise of men.

If you are a guy, get mad. Get riled. Decide that you will not be left on the scrap heap of culture and history. Tap into your competitive nature. Decide to demand your education. Demand your future. Then earn it.

The world needs more Jacob Rummels and Maverick Antonios and Cody McKenzies (guys who work hard pursuing excellence in everything, at least everything I witnessed them do over the last couple of years).

We'll be talking about the issue of pursuing excellence this coming fall.

Run, Lola, Run!

Found watching giant dump truck videos with Charlie. Enjoy.  Don't forget to read the last paper post below...

This I Believe...is your last paper!

Your this I Believe essay is due on Friday June 11th. It should be uploaded to your blog and you will be reading it aloud in class as well. Here are the requirements adapted from the This I Believe submission page (I encourage you to submit them to This I Believe if you wish).

Keep the following in mind when you write your essay:

1. Limit your essay to 350-500 words.
2. Describe an event that shaped your beliefs or a person who inspired them.
3. Avoid sermons and editorials—no soapbox declamations, please!
4. Read more of the This I Believe essay-writing tips.

You can peruse multiple examples at http://thisibelieve.org.

If you look at the Calendar, you'll see that with the movie et al, we are running right up to the end with Gatsby. So, I advise working on this in the background. If we have time one day, we will look at some examples on the website, though I recommend looking some examples on your own. Often the ones put on the radio are a bit better, but not necessarily so.

Andrea Kang's This I Believe essay. They reposted it from its original posting so all of the comments are gone, but her essay is there.