6 November 2006

Fun fun fun. First, I read from Princess Sultan's Daughter by Jane Sasson, and Becky did her review. Ms. Hillestad suggested we read City of Fallen Angel's by John Berendt, which takes place in Venice. She read the prolouge entitled "The Venice Effect". I liked the description about the oil painting being "...reality once removed". Ms. Hillestad also mentioned an article on the SAT that stated students who write in cursive and who do not write in first person recieve a higher score on the essay portion. Essay writing led to the discussion of college acceptance essays and how it takes two years to write one. She read Kassie's essay for Stanford and we were all blown away. Since we couldn't remember where we ended up last week, our AP class stooped down to regular English status and wrote cinquains about anything we wanted too. Next class, have an evalutation for your first quarter goals. Also, we are taking an objective test on Cry the Beloved Country. =]