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Mr. Welch's pet peeves for writing

Consider this a list of things to check for before turning in a paper.

[ ] Did you check your printer at least two days in advance so you could buy new printer cartridges, paper, printer cables, computers, etc?
[ ] Is your name (or ID in special cases) somehow attached to your paper, or will you be receiving a "0"?
[ ] Are you following correct paragraph layout for your writing type?
[ ] Have you checked your margins, line spacing, font size, and font face?
[ ] Have you properly formatted the titles of works under consideration?
[ ] Have you spelled those works correctly? What about the authors’ names?
[ ] Have you limited yourself to a maximum of one exclamation point per page? For formal papers, have you limited yourself to one exclamation point per paper, if any?
[ ] Does your paper start with a question? If so, will you enjoy repeating 5th grade?
[ ] Have you removed all slang, txt-speech, and other crimes against humanity?
[ ] "Could’ve" is NOT a contraction of "could of", it’s a contraction of "could have". Same for would’ve, should’ve, etc.
[ ] If this is a formal paper, have you removed all contractions?
[ ] Have you checked for gross errors?
[ ] Have you looked for logical fallacies?
[ ] If the letter "I" means a person, is the letter capitalized?
[ ] Have you proofread your pepper? (spelling)
[ ] Have you you proofread your paper? (repetition)
[ ] The paper, is it proofread? (passive sentences)
[ ] Is your paper proofreading? (grammar, subject agreement, verb tense)
[ ] Have you checked to make sure you aren’t repeating words excessively?
[ ] Have you formatted your quotation marks correctly?
[ ] Have you included citations? Are they formatted correctly?
[ ] Do you have a bibliography? Is it formatted correctly?

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Book Report Sheet and Q1 Book Club Book

The Book Report sheet we went over in class can be found here in .doc, .rtf and .pdf format (.pdf coming soon).

Here's the Quarter 1 Book Club Book!

Free for All: Fixing School Food in America by Janet Poppendieck

How did our children end up eating nachos, pizza, and Tater Tots for lunch? Taking us on an eye-opening journey into the nation's school kitchens, this superbly researched book is the first to provide a comprehensive assessment of school food in the United States. Janet Poppendieck explores the deep politics of food provision from multiple perspectives--history, policy, nutrition, environmental sustainability, taste, and more. How did we get into the absurd situation in which nutritionally regulated meals compete with fast food items and snack foods loaded with sugar, salt, and fat? What is the nutritional profile of the federal meals? How well are they reaching students who need them? Opening a window onto our culture as a whole, Poppendieck reveals the forces--the financial troubles of schools, the commercialization of childhood, the reliance on market models--that are determining how lunch is served. She concludes with a sweeping vision for change: fresh, healthy food for all children as a regular part of their school day.

Welcome!

I am so excited to be getting to know all of my sophomore students. Thank you for making the first day so wonderful.

The packets you are looking for are available in .doc or .rtf format (for
Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org, and Google Docs) and in .pdf format (for Adobe Acrobat).

All linked programs in the above sentence are free to download from or use on the internet.

If you have trouble getting any of these files, please do not hesitate to email me ASAP. You wrote my email in your planner.

See you tomorrow!