Dear all future Duke students
Well, welcome to your first day of English III with the legendary Kealy Duke. Maybe its not your first day, but if i remember properly she made us read these on one of our first days so. You need to decide now whether you are going to work in this class or not. There is no sliding by in this class i will tell you right now. While in some classes you can get by on copying homework and not reading what is assigned by cramming the class before, this is not one of those classes. I know some of you wont listen to me, because i wouldn’t have listened to me either. So i’m going to give you a list of things you have to do if you want to be satisfied with your English III grade.
1. BLOG. At first you will like it. Then it will become a hassle. Then you will forget about it till sunday every week. Then you will despise everything about blogging. But you have to do it. Our class averaged about 1400 points a semester in this class and a huge block of those comes from blogging. So do it, trust me not doing it is not an option, i tried.
2. When you have a group project, or have the option to work with a partner, dont pick the one person you wont get anything done with. Find someone you get along with but will also make you work and you will be amazed how much more you get done.
3. Read. If you dont do any of the other homework you will be assigned nightly, and dont worry there will be a ton no matter what, read the book you are assigned. If you read you can always get away with doing the work last minute, or even late. If you don’t read you are screwed as soon as you walk into the class. You absolutely cannot get away with not reading in this class, so just do it.
Follow these rules and i can almost guarantee you get a b-. And that is like gold in Duke III. If you are shooting for an A there is a lot more you have to do, and good luck to you because that is a feat i cannot accomplish. Much like legendary on halo3. While i’ve shone a somewhat negative light on this class do not take that badly. You won’t wake up in the morning thrilled to go to english but Mrs. Duke really is a great teacher, and I dont think anyone will deny that fact. She knows a lot of interesting things, class can be really fun if people cooperate, so try to keep it on that track. Good luck to all of you, i’m sure i will hear plenty of complaints in the student center next year and i look forward to it.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Look at you doing your work on time. Looks like you learned a little something.
May 24th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
hey dude good job on follwoing instructions and posting this as your most recent blog……..
but ye the B- part is funny cause he has noting close to a B-. but its cool, jusr work hard and write till your finished. youll see what i mean when the time comes
May 24th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Ross: Dear all Future DUke Students
FROM GARRETT “Yes these are good pointers. And you and I can both agree that we wouldn’t have listened to these in the beginning of the year. Just like we didn’t when we did our first blogs. But I would like to correct you on the point you said 1400 points a semester, it was actually a quarter. But yes I am with you, good luck to everyone else going through Mrs. Duke. She will prepare you, she is a great teacher. You just have to be willing to put forth effort and actually do work.” FROM GARRETT
May 24th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
thanks elliott i love you too
May 25th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Hey dude great job on the information above, its done really well. One thing i wanted to make fun of you for is the fact that on the assignment page thing it says to do this one lasts so that this is the first one the next year juniors see haha. but anyway great job.