Class Trip to MSU and Upcoming Due Dates!

On Monday, November 17th, our sixth block class will be traveling to MSU to use the research resources at the Meyer Library, tour the campus, and enjoy lunch...at MSU!  One of our upcoming projects will entail finding sources of support for research we'll be conducting (more information to follow), and the MSU librarians will be available that day to share their expertise and ideas.

Those of you who are dual enrolled will want to bring the paperwork that came by mail from MSU.
During our tour, Suzi Jordan, coordinator of English dual enrollment, will take MSU students to the union to have their id's made.  MSU dual enrolled students will also be able to log into the MSU system by using your identification numbers sent in the mail.

   One of the great perks of this trip, in addition to
getting MSU's help with research, is free lunch in one of the dining spots on campus.  We'll be boarding a bus from Parkview at 9:00 and returning to Parkview at 1:00.  You'll be missing part of your second block class and your third block class, but you'll return for your eighth.  If you attend the trip (and I hope you do), you will not be counted absent, but you'll still be responsible for the work you'll miss.

Make sure you bring back a signed permission slip next week so that I can reserve the correct number of lunch passes!

Meantime, we'll be reading letters of response to your autobiographies next week.  Please bring your autobiography folders to class with you.  You'll be looking them over one more time for possible revision and for your own clarification for any questions you may be asked in your letters.

Keep reading our class blog!  Seems like this is a step some of us skip.  If you are reading this, write down the name of our MSU coordinator (mentioned above) on a whole piece of notebook paper and put it in the "make up work" basket before class.

Bonus for the last week of October:  no writer's notebook, and no independent reading response due!
Instead, if you'd like an additional grade entered into your personal scores, you may hand in an extra writer's notebook or an additional book response and we will enter it in as an additional
score.  This isn't "extra credit" per se; it will be a chance to earn a 50 out of 50 or 40 out of 40 if you'd like a little extra "insurance" on your total grade.

Upcoming Fridays:  October 31st - Halloween - free
                                 November 7th - 5th writer's notebook
                                 November 14th - 5th reading response
                                 (topic to be posted)
                                 November 21st - 6th writer's notebook
                                 November 28th - Thanksgiving - free