6/13/18

Today's class revolved around the idea and ability to be able to 'inject' more flavor and tone into a text or passage in order for it to become more engaging and interesting for whoever is reading the passage. However, before this, Mr. Rivers introduced the class to our 2018 summer reading assignments for each of the five English classes that one could take as a Senior next year. Additionally, we briefly discussed the Final Harkness Prep assignment that was posted on classroom. The lesson itself today, again, was focused on turning relatively bland sentences into something engaging and interesting for the reader. The passage that the class had to give some 'flavor' to was; 'Yesterday was Tuesday. I went to school and had English, Math, History, Band, and Science. We had a substitute teacher in Math. I brought lunch from home. After school, I went to work. When I got home, I watched some TV before going to be.' We were then instructed by Mr. Rivers to talk within our groups and work together to make the passage either more positive or more negative. Then, once we had finished, we had to post our new passages onto the google classroom assignment (the finished products can be viewed there). This lesson can easily tie into the real world as it is often necessary in almost all walks of life to be able to write some form of composition while also keeping the reader interested enough to keep on reading. One example of this that we are all actually working on now is the College Essay. As we have learned in class and Rivers has said multiple times, it is very important to not only get your message and information across to the Admissions officer or teacher reading your essay, but also to have 'flavor' in your essay so that the officer gets to actually learn who you are. They need to be able to make a special distinction between you and your paper and the thousands of other papers from other applicants. This lesson specifically ties into the essay that we have been working on for almost the past month.