Seniors: 1 Quarter Left!

Congrats, gentle senior readers. You have made it this far. And you now have just a few more tasks. Namely, some vocab, finishing BNW, reading a little novel by Faulkner, and completing your Trilogy project.


Your Trilogy Project! (I capitalized both words, for emphasis.)


I wish you the best of luck in remaining serious-minded about seriously reading your allotted assigned-way-back-in-early-October books. Because your annotated bibliography grade depends on it. More importantly (and more selfishly for me and your fellow English troops), your presentation depends on it. Because we all want high-level, thought-about material from you, not a regurgitation of Schmoop, LitCharts, Spark Notes, et. al. We are better than this. Let's make our products reflect that.


And while we're talking about it, what is with poor grammar in popular rock songs? "I can't get no satisfaction" says Mick. Really? Really? 'Cuz I can't get past that double negative. Well I try. And I try. And I try. And I try. But it just irks me every time I sing along to this song. Maybe it's a Non-Doer thing. Maybe not. To be clear, I have no revision to offer. It's a great song with a fantastic rhythm, and tampering with that ain't very rock 'n roll. But still.


Tip of the Day: be a little more Dickens, a little less Jagger in your essays.

One quarter left!
(Thank you for the joke, Mr. Curtin.)