Skip to main content

Welcome to Honors! (Please Read This)

    Welcome to Honors! My name is Abbie Hedden and I serve as President of Honors. Jamie Peters is our Vice President, and Caroline Tucker is our Secretary. I look forward to getting to know all of you in class during this upcoming year! There are a few things you need to know about Honors.

    There are no quizzes or tests in Honors. Grades are provided based on attendance/class participation, blogs, explication papers, and the research paper. The papers will be addressed at a later date, as they aren't due until later in the semester. However, there is a blog post due every week. Bearing that in mind, here are the requirements!

Criteria
  • Blog posts are due Monday at 11:59PM, and comments are due Tuesday at 9:29AM. DO NOT BE LATE ON ASSIGNMENTS. Points WILL be deducted from late assignments!
  • Be sure to have your name in your Blogger profile
  • Blog posts should include at least one to two paragraphs on that week’s reading assignment. 
  • Blog posts should NOT be a summary or recap of the reading, but rather an application or observation from that week's assigned reading!
  • Do not include grammatical errors, slang, inappropriate language, or emojis/emoticons. Jokes and informal language are allowed as long as they are relevant.
  • If you quote the reading (you should), be sure to have a short in-text citation in the format (Last name, page number).
  • Include your name in title of post: “Blog Title Example - Abbie Hedden” “Blog Title Example 2 // Abbie Hedden”
  • You are required to comment on two of your peers' posts per week, though encouraged to comment on more! Comments should be engaging and not bland. THEY WILL BE PART OF YOUR WEEKLY BLOG GRADE. Once you leave your comments, edit your blog post to say whose blog posts you commented on. 
  • Be creative! As long as your content is relevant to the reading, your blog can be about anything you want. Be sure to have a fun title! At the end of each week, we will vote on the most creative titles. At the end of the semester, we will have a reward for the student with the best titles!
I know that that's a lot, but I promise you'll get the swing of it after a few posts. If you have any issues or concerns, please reach out to any of us on the Honor Council! We are more than happy to help.
    -Abbie Hedden

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Oedipus’ Children/Siblings—Lily Caswell

Ok, so Oedipus is a bit of a train wreck to say the least. I love the fact that even after Oedipus found out about his less-than-appealing relationship with his mother, he still tried to look after his children/siblings. After he gouged his eyes out, his children came to him at which point Oedipus talked about how that when they were old enough to marry, no one would want them due to them being products of incest. He said for the people not to condemn them based on what their father had done. Even after he knew what he had done and what his children were, he still wanted the best for them. I commented on Logan’s and Ian’s posts.
3 comments
Read more

Aristotle Might Not Like Me...Or Jesus//Haylee Lynd

      Aristotle says that the man who does not get angry at the things he should be angry at "is thought unlikely to defend himself; and to endure being insulted and put up with insult to one's friends is slavish" (Aristotle 41). While he states that passivity is preferred to excessive anger, he still gives great criticism to it.  In contrast to Aristotle, the man who Christians believe to be the most just is Jesus who states in Matthew 5:39-40, "...do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other also. And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well." Essentially, arguing that one is not to respond in anger when insulted or hurt, to not defend one's self. Most individual's are unable to achieve this. Our natural instinct is to defend ourselves, especially in physical cases. However, Christians strive to be like Jesus in this way. I would also argue that it is a very admirable wa...
2 comments
Read more

One shall stand, One shall fall // Ian Blair

      I usually have a little introduction into my thoughts about the reading for this week before I start with the actual blog part of my post, but I can't help but think about the bone-chilling realization that awaits us in Book VIII, so my introduction this time will be brief. It is my personal opinion that if people are imperfect, then we are only capable of imperfect systems and societies consequentially. However, this does not mean that we must not aim for the closest system to perfect that we can achieve.      The realization I wrote of earlier is the suggestion by Socrates that tyranny stems from the system we know as democracy. At first I disagreed, it is anarchism that causes  tyrannical reign as a byproduct of fulfilling its purpose of overthrowing the current power and not establishing another system. All anarchism does is create a power vacuum for another power to take over and the cycle repeats itself, right? ...Right? Quic...
1 comment
Read more