President Obama's State of the Union address

During President's Obama speech, he spoke of many concerns and problems that must be worked on to improve our country, including issues like the economy, the war in Afghanistan, immigration, women's equality, gun control, the environment, education, among others.

Choose one issue that the President spoke about, explain what he said we should do about it, and share how you feel about his solution.


By Friday, please respond to this prompt, and then respond to two other students' responses.

Books We've Read

In the space on this blog, please cut and paste your "Book Reviews" for any books you've read in Honors. On the first line, please indicate the Book Title and author.

In addition to the book write-up, students should create a short “book review” for each honors book they read. This review should contain the following information:

·      The author and title

·      A general synopsis of the book (but don’t give anything away)

·      A general recommendation for the book (would you recommend it? Why? Is it challenging? Informative? Compelling?)

·      What did you gain from this books? 

New Book Write-ups

Honors Students.
A few of you have requested that I add new required reading prompts to the list, as you've grown tired, bored, and/or sick of the old ones. SO, in that spirit, I would like to open it up to suggestions.

Please write down your suggestions on this blog for new reading prompts. You can put your own down, and/or comment of others that you like.

Remember, all prompts must encourage a deeper and more complex reading of the book, and encourage a more thoughtful and in-depth analysis.