Bio Blog #1 - New School Year's Resolution

It’s a new school year… and a new school for that matter. Now is the perfect time to correct and address your weaknesses as well as build upon your strengths. Please respond to the two parts below.

Both Parts 1 & 2 are expected to be answered in sentence form.

Part 1) In a MINIMUM 5-sentence paragraph, please discuss your plans for the upcoming school year and your desire to get the most out of your year. No student is perfect; each one of us can find room for improvement. You are starting with a clean slate, and I hope you can look back at this year as a success. Discuss your intentions to make this year as successful as possible. Please consider the following:

• Study habits
• ​Homework completion
• Time management
• Extra help
• Extra curricular activities
• Maturity
• Choices

Especially discuss your struggles in previous years (e.g. procrastination, study time, homework completion, etc.) and how you plan to best correct them. Please also discuss your successes in the past and how you hope to replicate them this year. Be as honest as you want to be; the only people who will know who you are are you, Mr. Dubuque, and anyone else you share your Student ID with (I would share this with very few people by the way).

Part 2) My Bio students last year were asked at the end of the year were asked to leave advice for you, my new students. Consider their advice valuable as they had provided it after the highs and lows of an entire year in my class. They know what they did to be successful as well as know what they should have corrected to be more successful. Go HERE to read each of their entries. In the first part of your response to this part, identify:

1. The 4 most common pieces of advice from last year's Bio students and
2. ​The 2 additional pieces of advice in which you find the most value to you.

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