Over Break

You have no assigned reading. As I mentioned in class, the school-wide Poetry Out Loud competition will take place on Monday, January 7, during tutorial. I encourage you to participate in it. Since you have no other work for me, consider learning a couple of poems to recite from memory. Go here to check out the eligible poems. (One poem has to be from before the twentieth century, and one poem has to have fewer than twenty-five lines. A single poem can satisfy both of these qualities, e.g. a sonnet by Shakespeare.)

Also, as I mentioned in class, when we finish Unflattening, you will write a synthesis essay about it, which is one of the three kinds of essays you will have to write on the AP exam. We will go over the synthesis essay when we get back from the break.

Lastly, you will need to choose your mentor for the STP when we come back in January, so if you missed Tuesday's class when I talked about it, see the guidelines for that in the STP Handbook, which is posted to the right.

Assignment for Tuesday. Dec. 18

In Unflattening, read pp. 69-87. You have no reading over the break, but be sure to have Unflattening with you for the first class on Thursday, January 3, which is a Day 2.

Assignment for Friday, Dec. 14

In Unflattening, read pp. 49-67. If you missed class, we read chapter 2 during class, so you'll have two chapters to read.

Assignment for Monday, Dec. 10

In Nick Sousanis's Unflattening, read to p. 27. You don't have anything to write in response to this reading. The research prospectus is due Wednesday, Dec. 12, so you might want to work on that over the weekend. You will have time during Monday's class to work on it.