Guest Blogger: Kjirsten Savage

The past few days we have been working on our cabinet presentations. Each group creating a PowerPoint Presentation and a skit to teach the class what their department is responsible for. The power points represent what their department stands for and informs us of some of the offices within the departments, along with telling us who the current secretary of the department is. Today (Thursday Nov. 17) we were fortunate to have a speaker come to talk to us about depression and suicide. Mr. Decker and Mr. Thompson stressed that they are available to talk to and call if you are having a difficult time, both academically and emotionally. Their phone numbers and email addresses are on the Syllabus and the Summer reading booklet. Or you are welcome to come talk to them privately. In English we were allotted time to work with our groups on our Brave New World 2 presentations, which will be happening this coming week. With your skits, make sure you show a present time (2011) example of the trend being focused on. This present time section is a good chunk of the grade. Continue writing and revising your Brave New World essays. They are due on Tuesday the 22nd of November. Proposals were handed back. Mr. Decker made a note on many papers to make sure to answer ‘so what’ on your trend. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask.

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