Your FIRST Quiz and Your NEXT Reading Assignment

Once you are done typing up your responses, you are NOT going to email us.  Instead, you will take a quiz using your responses!  Most of it is copy-and-paste...except the vocab.  You CAN use the definitions you typed out in your entry for the vocab section of the quiz (wink-wink, Bryan).  You will copy the responses from your journal document then paste them in the box with the appropriate questions.  REMEMBER to save your journal response documents each week, as you will print them all to turn in the first day of class (as a journal of your summer work).  You should have already created a special folder on your computer at home. (I would also copy it to a flash drive in case your computer has a glitch.)

Here is the link for the FIRST assignment/quiz: http://www.quia.com/quiz/3730492.html.  It will only be accessible until the 25th, so you need to hurry.  Your user names and passwords have already been emailed from Quia to the email address of your "GOT IT" message.  If you email us after this post, I will send it to you when I can. BE SURE TO CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER WITH QUIA as the sender.

Once you submit your answers, it will take us some time to grade them (about a week), and you will be able to see your scores then.  It will only grade the vocab section in real-time, but the essay portions will need to be graded by us since there are so many possible correct answers.  PLEASE WATCH YOUR G.P.S. (grammar, punctuation, and spelling)!!!!  There is no excuse for misspelled words, improper mechanics, etc.  Get it together :)

The next set of questions are available already.  Once you are finished, let us know (thanks, Kellen and Ashely) because we will post the next set of questions and the quiz link.  If you want to read ahead, you can.  I already have the questions ready because I created them (and the vocab list) as I read.  Trust me, I know some of you are reading ahead because you're into it...while others are reading ahead to get it done so you can play.  ANYWAY, for chapters 15-29, CLICK HERE.  Remember to save each of your documents and put them in a folder on your computer!

We really hope you are enjoying the book!  I finished yesterday and felt a wave (and a variety) of emotions!  Feel free to leave your comments here about the book, or you can share some of your responses from your journals (preferably the personal ones...not the academic-type questions).  Who knows, there may be some extra credit (EC) when you do share.  Anything is possible!

Speaking of EC, you have your FIRST EC opportunity for the 2012-2013 school year.  I have a list of students who've not responded to my/your tweets OR our blog (shame, shame).  CLICK HERE to access the list of students MISSING IN ACTION.  For each student on that list who responds because you told them to, we will award you EC points.  They need to read the post from Monday, respond according to the directions...except they need to add YOUR name after "Got It" in the subject line, so we can give YOU credit and add THEM to our list!

OK, enough for today!  Love you and miss you all!  We have 66 days until we see each other again!