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=Welcome Mr. White's GT Students=

This wiki is for you. Cool, right? Since it's difficult for us to meet as a group during the school day, many of your assignments will will be followed up by discussion online. When giving your response to a question, here are some rules:

Yes, it's a message board -- but I expect high quality responses. Write in complete sentences and think about your answer before typing. Bad grammar here and there won't make me sob (too much), but I expect your answers to be an intelligent response to the topic at hand.

By all means you can respond to someone else's comment -- that's great! But you can do a lot better than "I agree!" Explain why you agree, and then add something new to the argument: some revelation or epiphany that will make everyone go, "Whoa. That kid is SMART!"

Tangents within the topic are cool. For example, if we're talking about a novel and the conversation slides to other books that author has written -- awesome! Topics outside the topic are not permitted. No one needs to know that you're going to be late to field hockey, or that your little brother just spilled his cereal on your cat. Stick to the topic.

You will be assessed on the quality and frequency of your participation -- but more the former than the latter.

I have set up an additional forum called "Random Ramblings." Here, you may discuss ANYTHING (as long as it's school appropriate, of course). It's your chance to play -- have fun!

[To log onto the Edgar Allan Poe asignment, click on the "Poe" link on the left-hand side of the screen.]