AF: Here's the work for the week -- choose one

Next Google Meet Up:  Wednesday, April 15 @ 11:00 a.m. (extra credit for just showing up!)

Check your school email every day.  Any announcements from school will come to you that way, and follow Mayfair ASB on Instagram.  

Have you seen the "We Miss You" video??

Choose Just One.  Or Two.  Or all Three!

Language, Gender, Culture

Read and annotate the first article, "The Manly Jobs Problem," by Susan Chira.  Be sure to establish context through your analysis using SOAPS:  Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Subject.  Write a blog post in response, taking a position or posing a question.  Minimum 300 words.

Creative Writing

Find a current story from a reputable and established news source from the past two weeks.  Read through it, and find an angle from which you can branch off and write a short short story -- 400 words or less.  Remember, a story needs a conflict, and plot, characters, a setting and a story arc (exposition, conflict, climax, resolution).  That's a lot to do in 400 words, so write bigger, and edit down.

Reading

If a "shelter in place" order isn't a good time to develop that reading habit, I don't know what is!  Find a book that interests you, and get to it!  Write a short response (minimum 250 words) to what you read this week.

Ms. Cole-Edwards discovered that AUDIBLE.COM is free to students during the pandemic!  You'll have to do some pointing and clicking to get past the children's titles, but you can do it.

If you are still befuddled by the blog, get in touch with us.

None of this work is mandatory, but if you do it and post it to the blog, we will give you credit for the work to help boost your grade.  If you do not do it, nothing in the gradebook changes for you.  But we'll be worried about you, and will reach out to find you.