1. #1 Journal 8/15/14
It is dangerous to be right in matters about which the established authorities are wrong.
- Voltaire
Respond to this quote. What does it mean? Do you agree or disagree? Explain your thinking.
Write for about 10 minutes.

2. Summer Assignment
Reflect on your summer work. Determine your two favorite entries. Mark them with post its or fold the pages.

3. Summer Assignment
Find a partner. Share with your partner your two favorite entries. Trade and read each others. Talk about them.

4. Summer Assignment Whole class discussion:
If you are called on, share something about one of your two selected favorite entries.

5. Elements of Style: half sheet
Section II: Elementary Principles of Composition, Sections
Find an example in your summer assignment where you could improve your own writing based on one of these rules.
Write the original way you wrote it on one side of the paper.
On the other side, write the improved way, and include the “rule” number from Elements of Style.

6. Some students have a background or story that is so central to their identity that they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn?
Reflect on a time when you challenged a belief or idea. What prompted you to act? Would you make the same decision again?
Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?
Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.

7. Turn in Summer Assignment and six word memoir
Turn in Summer Assignment and six word memoir. Please make sure your name is on both your visual and your paragraph.
Turn in syllabus quiz if you did not yesterday.