1st & 3rd Periods:
We'll briefly discuss this tomorrow before class, just in case you don't get a chance to read this.
After looking over today's discussion that took place in the computer lab, I must say that I am EXTREMELY disappointed for the most part. I take partial responsibility for this in that the directions may have not been made clear enough or emphasized heavily enough. However, after attempting to count the numerous instances where the discussion went horribly off topic or random, pointless comments were made, I lost track. When we do fun things like this, it's to give you a break from sitting in your desk and talking about the book and allowing you to interact with your classmates in a different environment.
Clearly, many of you were unable to handle this. It is great to insert a funny, random comment every now and then, but when over half of the postings become nonsensical, random comments such as "Who likes lemons?" or mentioning that you didn't do the reading for the weekend because you were busy playing XBox 360 the entire weekend it becomes offensive to me. I am doing this to help you. I am definitely not angry, just disappointed because I expected more from Honors students.
Now, don't get me wrong. There were those of you that stayed on task the entire time and I am grateful that you did so. This is not addressed to you at all. Thank you so much.
Your assignment for tomorrow is to completely finish the novel and we'll discuss what happened.
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Mr.Phillips, I want to give you an apology that you definantly deserve. Today, you tried to let us get away from the same day to day routine of going into class, and having to beg people to discuss. Today, everyone participated, and we took advantage of the fact that you were so nice. So on behalf of EVERYONE from 1st and 3rd period, i say that we are deeply sorry for being so inconsiderate. It wasn't right for us to take advantage of the fact that you know how a student feels, and how sometimes a change of pace is really nice. I know that i did get off topic a bit, and i noticed that no one else has even bothered to apologize. I am really sorry that we treated you so badly. I hope we can do this some other time. It was actually really fun.
-Eric Hailey 3rd
P.S. and to all those who think I'm trying to be a teachers pet, I'm not. I am simply doing what everyone else should have done to begin with.
Mr. P I am also very sorry for what happened a few days ago and that we should have been glad to do something different for a change. Instead of discussing it in class, at our seats like we always do.
I know that we could have done a lot better with staying on topic, and that I was in some of the off topic things that were going around. I feel that you should not have to give specific directions every time especially when are discussing a book.
-Ben Walter 3rd
P.S. I hope we can do it again sometime, it was really fun.
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