Just a couple of reminders:
- You have to have 9 blogs total done by the first day of school.
- Your essay on one aspect of one of the novels is due on the first day, as are your notes on How to Read Literature (and no, you don't have to take notes on the interludes, just the chapters).
- There will be a summer reading test, but not until after the Labor Day weekend.
A college comment or two...
As I believe Dario mentioned, you are well served to look at some colleges outside of New England...they get fewer applicants from our area and that can definitely help your chances. If you're applying to say, Tufts, Malden is a handicap; if you're applying to Carleton or Macalester or Grinnell, it makes you exotic (those, by the way, are excellent midwestern schools that you would do well to investigate - Grinnell particularly has pots of money for aid). I didn't apply to a single college less than 3,000 miles away from home!
Oh, and I have to say how much I enjoyed The Dark Knight...it was definitely worth waiting to see it in IMAX.
See you in just a few short weeks!
