We're just one quarter away from the end of the year, sports fans, so time to go for the gold! This week, we'll focus on writing strategies and skills to take us to the AP test in great shape. We'll cycle back to the Orwell reading we skipped last week, finish the Scientific Paper, practice some prompt response introductions, and write a 10th prompt. We have just one new reading for the week, so be sure to get it done. Here we go!
Wellllll, hot dang! It's April! (No foolin'.) So, it would seem we're in the final run-up--to the AP exam[s] the last "summer break" of your official childhood (for most of you, anyway), and the end of the school year. Time flies, am I right? We've made mucho progress, and have bravely gone where only a few have dared to go before, BUT we're not there yet. For the coming weeks, in the Lang portion of the program, we'll be focusing HARD on the writing niceties that will put us in good shape--for the test AND for anything else that comes along. Hang on, Xtremers! This party's just getting started!
What is your destiny? For hundreds of years, people believed that their lives were guided by external forces they could not control--usually a diety or some greater purpose or plan. With the discovery of DNA and the mapping of the human genome, the force of destiny has become, for many, a kind coding we are born with. But with each new discovery and answer to the mysteries of life, new questions arise: How much control do we have over our own lives? What good does knowing do? Can destiny be subverted? Is there a limit to our knowledge? Should there be? However you look at it, this is an exciting time to be alive. Now, let's read!
Although your Xtreme mentors--McKuka--will NOT be with you on Monday, February 25, you will be expected to continue your research with scholarly seriousness. We know how sad you'll be that we're not there. Do your best to survive without us. By the end of the day, the following is DUE on NOODLETOOLS, shared to the McKuka dropbox:
