At the end of each month, please submit your USSR forms. Marks awarded for the number of books read, how well you express your feelings about the book and the variety and difficulty of the material that you choose to read.
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HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH STUDENT
It's not enough to sit and be told what to do, is it?
Learning is a verb so it requires action on a student's part.
Arriving to class without your homework completed means you need to build in a routine to check this blog daily so that you are prepared. If you miss a class, you are required to make up the work.
To Improve
When your work is returned, plan to do something about learning the material you have not yet mastered.
Re-write assignments and focus on one or two new things you want to be able to do. For example,
Vocabulary
- study the words daily on Quizlet
- write strong sentences and vary your punctuation
- get the sentences checked
- use quizlet to test your knowledge
- How to write a thesis statement
- How to integrate quotations
- How to improve your writing style: vocabulary, punctuation, sentence variety
- How to add insightful responses and support your opinions with proof
- Use the poems I have starred as models to create poems
- Learn how to write a proper bibliography
- What do you need to do to improve?
- Follow the samples I give you
- Read poems from The Claremont Review and from your anthology
- Find out what is getting published these days and why
- use unique descriptions
- appeal to the five senses
- ask for help
- get a peer to edit your work
