I have officially started the English classes working on conservation essays or thankful papers. Everyone who earned an A the first nine weeks has to write an essay and it is optional for the rest of the class. Those not writing an essay must write a thankful paper. Both papers are multi paragraph and are graded on four of the six writing traits: sentence structure, ideas and content, writing conventions, and organization. I may make my own little contest out of this writing assignment and post the winner's papers (the best essay and the best thankful paper. That ought to make for interesting reading????

More later.
pgm