Homecoming nominees

We will be voting tomorrow morning on the following nominees for Homecoming King and Queen:

Alex Moreno
Miguel "Rooster" Meza
The Uriel
Brian Veracruz

Sami Delgado
Nathalie Morales
Lizeth Navarro
Chiara Rivera

Argument Paper Rock Stars

Congratulations to the following students for making A's on their major papers at semester's end. It was a tough assignment, and almost all of you showed amazing effort. These were the top:

Ashley Vasquez
Nayeri Rodriguez
Nancy Nieto
Migdalia Hernandez
Brian Veracruz
Cesar Valero
Chiara Rivera
Wilfredo Canales
Sussy Aguirre
Samantha Marquez
Yoali Salgado
Alfonsina Rodriguez

Grading bender

Yes, I procrastinated. Yes, I vaguely complained about it on Facebook, and a couple of non-teachers gently razzed me about it by pointing out the group on FB called "If it is SOOOOO annoying to grade all those papers WHY DID YOU ASSIGN IT."

I will ignore all the syntactically stupid and inaccurate choices that group's creator made.

I don't mind taking a long time grading your work. It's hard to find the time, just like it is for you to do your homework. My promise to you is this: when your paper is on the block, it has my full attention, for somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes. I've graded exactly 30 of them so far, and it has taken roughly 10 hours. And because of my procrastinating (and obsessive baking), that means that ~18 of my next 48 hours will be spent finishing them.

Here is a sample of the finished products. My comments are there in the hopes that they will help you improve your writing quickly and painlessly.



The good news is, I've got the Star Wars trilogy on in the background, I've got some pizza, I've got a box of Abuelita, and I've only burned up one of my pretty Flare pens on this endeavor.

First assignment of 2010

Happy new year, darlings. Now memorize the information here.