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In accordance with the goals of the BISD Gifted and Talented Program, our 7th Grade Pre AP ELA Blog Assignments are designed to provide opportunities to meet the educational, psychological, and social needs of gifted students by helping them develop: * a deeper understanding of how intellectual potential affects self-development, relationships with others, and responsibilities to society, * creative thinking abilities by increasing fluency, flexibility, elaboration, and originality * critical thinking abilities by increasing divergent thinking processes, problem- solving strategies, logical reasoning skills, and organization tools higher level thinking skills of synthesis, analysis, and evaluation * complex research techniques that allow creation of products in areas of intense interest, and * skills of managing time and resources in order to set and meet goals.

PLEASE USE INTEGRITY WHEN POSTING. * ANY INAPPROPRIATE POSTS WILL BE DELETED OR REFUSED. * REMEMBER THAT ANYTHING YOU SUBMIT BECOMES PUBLIC DOMAIN. * PARENTS WILL BE CONTACTED AND YOUR ASSIGNMENT GRADE WILL BE GREATLY REDUCED IN THE EVENT THAT INAPPROPRIATE POSTS ARE SUBMITTED. * STUDENTS WHO ATTEMPT TO ENTER PROHIBITED SITES WHILE WORKING ON A CLASSROOM COMPUTER WILL BE SENT TO THE OFFICE TO CONTACT PARENTS; SCHOOLWIDE COMPUTERS WILL BE OFF-LIMITS FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS; AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WILL BE NOTIFIED.

The purpose of this blog is to bring students together via technology in order to share insights gleaned from various aspects of our reading of Lois Lowry's The Giver. Each student is an independent thinker with unique experiences and perspectives. In order for this to be a valuable tool for all students, it is important that the ideas expressed are individually sincere, thoughtful, and reflective and serve to broaden the thinking of others in the class. Please refrain from making the same, exact comments as another student. THINK FOR YOURSELF, PLEASE. THINK ABOUT WHAT TRUTHS MAY LIE BENEATH SURFACE DETAILS. AN ORIGINAL IS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE,WORTH MUCH MORE THAN A COPY! Increase the value of your own mind by building its power with constructive thoughts. ***Empty comments and off-topic contributions will be rejected, as will entries in which the writer appears to have recycled another’s exact words, and no credit will be given to the contributors.