No Holds Barred: YOU get to evaluate the class!

As you well know, I value your opinion.  Each year I try to reflect on what I can do better as your teacher and how the course can better meet your needs. I ENTREAT you to please offer me some of your feelings now.  I respect your candor; don't be afraid to put your name to this (up until this Friday, you will still earn B-squares).  This will ABSOLUTELY not impact on your grade or my love for you.  However, if you are too frightened to tell the truth, you may sign in with an anonymous name (just make up a fake gmail account).  I want the truth, but please remain respectful.  No bad language or insults or I will be forced to shut down the thread entirely. 
You may share what worked for you (the website, the blog, the mailbox system, the participation points, favorite books, favorite note system, vocab, grammar or literary games; etc) or what didn't work for you.
For instance, Period 9 never finished the heated debate on whether or not extra credit should be granted to everyone who wants it.  Evaluate the final exam...other unit tests.... everything!  Do you feel you had enough time to complete your assignments?  I am also looking for suggestions on how to make things better.  What do other teachers do that I do not that you wish I did?
I, myself, already know that my attendance and turnover time for graded papers was lacking this year.  I will acknowledge, though, that tests were not returned because I don't think we had ONE unit test for which everyone in the class was healthy.  I hope we ALL have better health next year.
I would rather you be honest here (and earn points) than vent on ratemyteachers; if you share your feelings here, I will see them and possibly be able to make myself a better teacher.

The FINAL Forum

As the largest part of the exam will be to analyze the critical lens prompts and the essential questions, here is a forum for you to ponder, muse, ask questions, and offer support.  Please see the link from our website that provides the possible prompts.
This is for your use...I will not get angry if someone needs to ask help about remembering a character's name.  This will close for extra credit as of Saturday at midnight; however, it will remain open until after the final exam is over to give you a place to study or seek moral support!
...BTW: did you notice that the right-hand column of this blog homepage has grammar and SAT-practice questions that might be helpful for the grammar section of the final?

Literary Superlatives - Strictly for Fun!!!!

We did not do a final yearbook project for all of our literary texts, but I thought for one last bit of extra credit, you might enjoy coming up with the Senior Superlatives for the characters.
Think of creative ways to immortalize all of the literary characters (sans Mythology) that you have encountered this year. From And Then There Were None to Lord of the Flies, many characters would win some fun and interesting senior superlatives if they were high school students.



Hottest wheels? Dreamiest Date? Best hair? Most likely to end up in a straight jacket? Be ironic or serious, just be appropriate and have some fun!