Hi, everyone,
I hope that you are all refreshed after the (too-short) summer break and are ready to come back and take another crack at (wait for it) education. :-)
I'm looking forward to getting to know each of you in various ways during the upcoming year: through your writing, through your contributions to the class discussions, through your online comments on class bulletin boards, through individual conferences, and through whatever other means we can devise to show off your individual knowledge and creativity. I hope that this will be a valuable experience for each of you and, though I'm sure that it will involve a lot of work, an enjoyable one.
In order to get to know you better from the start, I'd like to ask you to do something for me. (Don't worry: it's not onerous.) (Look it up.)
When you come into the classroom on Monday, be ready to tell me (and the class) what makes you unique in this cookie-cutter community we live in. Describe something about yourself, your family, your interests, your life, etc., that you think sets you apart. And don't forget that the word "unique" means sole, individual, one of a kind. So "I play football" won't do very much here, though it might be an important fact about yourself to share as well.
You'll be talking on Monday. This is a class where I want to *listen* to you as much as I want you to listen to me. So be ready.
Oh, and I'd like you to do one other thing. Go to www.tophamsattic.blogspot.com and check it out. It's my classroom communication blog, my private version of "Edline," and I use it for just about everything (other than mass emails like this one). You should bookmark it or subscribe to it. You'll be going there daily all year. There's fun stuff as well as information. Look around. Click on some things.
See you Monday!!!
kt
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