Fourth Quarter, week one syllabus

Welcome to the final 8 weeks of your high school lives.  Be remarkable.

Final essay for The Dip

The Dip Second Reading Assignment

The Dip First reading assignment

The Dip - Assignment 1.0

First:

For our next book, we will read Seth Godin's short book entitled The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick).

Here is the man talking about the dip.  If you haven't had the great opportunity to listen to him, enjoy.

It's a trip.


 

 Please leave two observations below reacting to this short clip.

Next:

Choose one of these prompts to write a short (no need for more than 2 pages) expository essay on (due Thursday).

* Write about something you failed at.
* Write about something you quit.
* Write about something you stuck with, but now you really wish you'd have quit.
* Why do you think quitting gets such a bad rap in our society?
* What are the benefits of quitting?

Hyper Text Blog

Here is the link to Google Docs where you can see the assignment sheet for the Sticky Note Hypertext book review, which will be due NEXT WEDNESDAY.

Look at the "Hyper-Text Book Report Blogs" page at the top column of this blog for past examples.