Saturday, April 8, 2017

P. 4 - Due Thursday, April 13 - A Visit with the Guidance Counselor

Recently, you had the opportunity to visit with one of your campus guidance counselors and learn about a number of factors surrounding his/her job.

Make a comment/compliment sandwich on this blog which includes something about one of the following:
  • Her education background
  • The journey that brought her to the position as a guidance counselor
  • The tasks she has to do on a regular and irregular basis
  • The personal characteristics needed to be successful as a guidance counselor
  • How she serves students, faculty and staff, and the community
  • The skills necessary to be a successful guidance counselor
  • The rewards of being a guidance counselor
Be sure that the comment portion of your remark adds value to the discussion.  Other readers should be able to take something thought-provoking away from your entry.  

Required:  You must BEGIN with your name, followed by the compliment/comment sandwich.  


P. 1 - Due Thursday, April 13 - A Visit with the Guidance Counselor

Recently, you had the opportunity to visit with one of your campus guidance counselors and learn about a number of factors surrounding his/her job.

Make a comment/compliment sandwich on this blog which includes something about one of the following:
  • Her education background
  • The journey that brought her to the position as a guidance counselor
  • The tasks she has to do on a regular and irregular basis
  • The personal characteristics needed to be successful as a guidance counselor
  • How she serves students, faculty and staff, and the community
  • The skills necessary to be a successful guidance counselor
  • The rewards of being a guidance counselor
Be sure that the comment portion of your remark adds value to the discussion.  Other readers should be able to take something thought-provoking away from your entry.  

Required:  You must BEGIN with your name, followed by the compliment/comment sandwich.  



Friday, April 7, 2017

Period 4 - Due Friday, April 7 - A Visit With the Librarian

Recently, you had the opportunity to visit with your campus librarian and learn about a number of factors surrounding her job:
  • Her education background
  • The journey that brought her to the position as librarian
  • The tasks she has to do on a regular and irregular basis
  • The personal characteristics needed to be successful as a librarian
  • How she serves students, faculty and staff, and the community
  • The skills necessary to be a successful librarian
  • The rewards of being a librarian
After discussing the class guidelines for making comments and compliments on a blog, add a compliment/comment sandwich as a comment to this blog.  Try to keep it to one or two sentences.  It may be a compound sentence, but do not turn it into a run-on sentence.   Be sure the comment portion remarks on something you learned in the interview conducted with the librarian.  You will need to use her name in your remark.



Example:  I love the comfortable sofas for reading in the library, and I was surprised that Mrs.  ___________ has to ______________ as part of her duties as a librarian.

Example:  Mrs. __________ is so friendly, but I was shocked when she told us that _____________ are hardly every used in the library.

Example:  Way to go, Mrs. ______________!  You have improved the library by (describe improvement).

Example:  I agree with ____________.  You work very hard, as evidenced by the (describe task) you have to do every year.

Note:  This is a daily grade in which you must use proper writing conventions: spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, sentence construction.



Period 1 - Due Friday, April 7 - A Visit with the Librarian

Recently, you had the opportunity to visit with your campus librarian and learn about a number of factors surrounding her job:
  • Her education background
  • The journey that brought her to the position as librarian
  • The tasks she has to do on a regular and irregular basis
  • The personal characteristics needed to be successful as a librarian
  • How she serves students, faculty and staff, and the community
  • The skills necessary to be a successful librarian
  • The rewards of being a librarian
After discussing the class guidelines for making comments and compliments on a blog, add a compliment/comment sandwich as a comment to this blog.  Try to keep it to one or two sentences.  It may be a compound sentence, but do not turn it into a run-on sentence.   Be sure the comment portion remarks on something you learned in the interview conducted with the librarian.  You will need to use her name in your remark.



Example:  I love the comfortable sofas for reading in the library, and I was surprised that Mrs.  ___________ has to ______________ as part of her duties as a librarian.

Example:  Mrs. __________ is so friendly, but I was shocked when she told us that _____________ are hardly every used in the library.

Example:  Way to go, Mrs. ______________!  You have improved the library by (describe improvement).

Example:  I agree with ____________.  You work very hard, as evidenced by the (describe task) you have to do every year.

Note:  This is a daily grade in which you must use proper writing conventions: spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, sentence construction.