final blogs!

Your final CREATIVE blogs are due Wed, Thu, and the last one Monday, May 21, our last day of class.

Here are some ideas:
What should you take to college?  Make your own list!

What to bring to college:

1.      Air freshener

2.      Headphones

3.      Foam mattress

4.      Folding chair

5.      Shower shoes

6.      Nice towel

7.      Bike lock

8.      Laptop lock

9.      Power strip

10.  Planner

11.  Stuffed animal

12.  Ability to focus

13.  Earplugs

14.  Clip-on reading light

15.  Umbrella

16.  An open mind!

Advice from the web, college prowler, or college advice books:

“It can be harder to leave your friends than your family—you know you’ll see your family again.”

“Be outgoing. Meet as many people as you can the first few weeks of school.”

“College isn’t like high school; you have to actually try to get good grades.”

“In college you have to be completely self-motivated rather than relying on requirements to get you involved.”

Your College Catalogue

College website ___________________________

 Link to Catalog ______________

Due date: Monday May 14 PowerPoint presentation

  Email it to jforman@buckley.org

In our final weeks, we will spend some time exploring your college catalog and website. Specifically, we want to learn something about the academic choices you have for first and second year classes. Explore your catalog, either online or in print form, and use this sheet (or a computer) to sketch out some of the requirements and possibilities for your first classes. Consider the following questions as you write a summary.

1. What classes are you required to take?
2. Which choices among the required courses look interesting to you?
3. As you make these choices, what are your aims? Only to satisfy the requirements and move on to classes in your major? Or are you curious about different subjects? Are you looking to discover what major would interest you?
4. How open are you to courses and fields you haven’t considered before? Which classes look interesting for trying new things?
5. Which classes seem to include writing?

Write a paragraph answering some of these questions and responding to the overall question of what classes you might choose.

PowerPoint slides requirements:

1. Title Page (name, college, title, college logo?)
2. Freshman year courses (or use two slides)
3. Sophomore year courses (or use two slides)
4. Explanation of choices and college’s requirements
5. Response from current student or alumni about reading or writing   (from an interview that you conduct by phone, Facebook, text message, or email)
6. Your college’s plagiarism policies (1^st and 2^nd offenses)
7. Any advice about college (from self-help books or websites)

Compare two Loveless Poems

Compare Donald Hall's 'Safe Sex' to Sharon Olds' 'Sex without Love.' Which in your opinion is direct and straightforward in what it says and really means it? Which is indirect, and if you read carefully between the lines you can discern that it means the opposite of what it is saying? Or is it even more complicated, in which one or both poems is ambiguous or saying two things simultaneously without indicating which the speaker believes? Does that leave it up to the reader to decide?  Explore ideas, give close analysis of words and phrases and tone. 
Also: (in a separate posting) find the distribution requirements for your new college. Title your blog and start investigating which courses you will be required to take the first four semesters. Eventually this will become a powerpoint presentation.