Wednesday, 10/7

* Open
  • First, I apologize for all the Google emails. I didn't realize that you were inundated by such messages from me.   
  • Example College Essay for Darker Themes (in general, I would say it is wiser not to include very dark themes for your personal narrative.  It's just hard to make the positive overcome the negative.  But, if you can, it can work well.  
* Inundate (v.): to flood; overflow
  • Latin: inundare "to overflow, run over"
  • Examples:
    • We are inundated by distractions, loosely packaged as information, on social media today.
    • "As a young surgeon in training at the  University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes, and eventually death." -- Richard Carmona
  • Before you move on, please compose a sentence with your vocabulary word that features an opening prepositional phrase.
* Quest Guide Review


HW: Work on the Quest Guide

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