If you want your Big Book to have a wider audience, publish it online at myebook.com. It’s free, and you get to share it with whomever you like.

Here’s a video to help you get started.

You’re all doing well in this last phase of the Big Book. Here are the last assignments:

• Title Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface (here is an example) (1st person)
• About the Author Page (3rd person)

Remember to use your Big Book Publishing Checklist to keep you on track!

If you’re caught up in your Book Club reading and homework, here’s some extra credit you can do.

We need to get all 500 vocabulary words up on the walls by the end of the week! So come by during lunch and after school and put some up.

Take advantage of another chance to improve your writing and raise your grade.

Meet me in Room 317 at 11:25 tomorrow, March 5, for a meeting about how to rewrite your research paper.

You are eligible to rewrite your essay if you turned in a final draft and attend the meeting.

We just started our new Book Club unit. We’re reading three books — If Beale Street Could Talk, Macho!, and Go Tell It On the Mountain – at the same time. Do you like your book so far? Participate in this online poll by texting in your answer and earn this week’s extra credit.

Here’s how: Send a text to 99503. If you like your book so far, text 17052. If not, text 17051.

New unit in English 10! The new Book Club unit is all about four things:

• Reading
• Choice
• Teamwork
• Technology

I’m happy so many of you are looking forward to this unit. Now it’s time to get serious, help each other, be accountable, and stay on top of things.

If you lose a handout, check out the English 10 page. Here is another copy of the BookNotes Unit Overview & Project Sheet, which we did today in class. It also has a calendar of what we’re doing each day.

Well, it’s happened: Isero is giving you an extension. (Crazy, right?) You’ve been working hard on your research essays, and I want them to be really good, so here are the new due dates.

• 2nd Period: Monday, March 2, beginning of class
• 4th Period: Tuesday, March 3, beginning of class

Now take advantage.

Get ready to write a research paper! That’s because our new unit is about research. You get to choose your topic. Make sure to work hard. Here’s an extra copy of the materials just in case: English 10 Research Unit.

Well, the historic day is here: Barack Obama’s inauguration. To commemorate the day, it’s time for some extra credit.

For 20 points (due Friday, Jan. 23):

(1) Print out Obama’s inaugural address and mark it up. (Use the markings we’ve learned this year.)

(2) Choose another president’s inaugural address here, print it out, and mark it up.

(3) Type a 1-2 page comparison between the speeches in content and rhetoric. Send it to me via Google Docs.