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Friday, August 17

I'm excited to be working with students here at Cary Academy. A number of you had wonderful and creative responses to the assignment. Some of you misunderstood the assignment, and I think this first blog entry is a good opportunity to clear up what I intended. The first paragraph was supposed to show evidence that you read around on the page for 20 minutes or so. If you wrote only about what we did in class, I can't tell if you read the page. Similarly, many of you wrote about Darfur and the 8-minute video that the students from Connecticut made. But if that's all you wrote about, how can I know what else interested you on the page?

The best papers highlighted a few items on the page and said WHY a student found that material interesting. If you just say "oh, the religion spread video was interesting," that begs the question of WHY it was interesting. Consider this sentence:

example

other good examples

please re-submit for Tuesday.