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February 15, 2008

Today the students had to write an AP Prompt, and Mrs Crabtree said that her only real requirement was that it was argumentative. Some of the students are weaker when it comes to choosing a side of a written argument and sticking to it, so I agreed. I found a nice one by Postman where he contrasts 1984 & Brave New World. They wrote for 40 minutes and then took a pop quiz on Twelfth Night. We fear some people didn’t read much of Fast Food Nation, and we wanted to reconfirm the importance of preparation. One of the classes today had about half the people prepared, and that’s never fun. The prompt was great, and I saw some good essays. The kids haven’t peer assessed recently, so I don’t know if we should do that again now. We’ll see.

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