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Essential Elements of an Honors Class

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4 Ways Honors Classes Are Different

I can’t speak for every honors program out there, but there are some common hallmarks of a great honors class. There’s a safe bet that if you’re accepted to an honors program, you can look forward to a classroom with these four unique qualities.

1) Reversed Classrooms

A reversed classroom frees students from the typical lecture-based format. That means instead of having someone talk atyou about course material, you get to discuss big ideas and important questions together.

"Honors students spend valuable class time wrestling with dificult questions."

This style of learning works because students read their assignments before class, so they can spend valuable class time wrestling with difficult questions, debating important points, and working through activities or simulations.

This is called a flipped classroom model. It happens to be one of the 8 core elements of an American Honors class, but it's common in many other honors programs, too.

2) Sophisticated Materials

A giant wall of notes on the screen? No fun.

A great classroom discussion can be facilitated by great teaching materials. Ever had a professor display a giant wall of notes on the screen and then simply read them out loud? No fun, right? That’s where better teaching materials can come into play.

Heres an example: when designing a recent history class, an American Honors professor adapted non-ADA compliant powerpoint slides to online “magazine” style pages that included relevant images and links to external resources for enhanced content. Students could actually explore the info on their own.

Honors faculty tend to share teaching methods. The professor from our example shared that material with American Honors faculty at every community college in the network. Honors communities tend to be supportive for everyone.

3) Hands-on Learning

Not everybody learns best just by talking through ideas, or even reading them. Sometimes you have to get your hands dirty and really experience something to understand it.

"Sometimes you have to experience something to understand it."

Here is a super fun example from an American Honors political science course this semester. Students enact a foreign policy simulation by role-playing as leaders of different countries. The simulation takes place over the course of several weeks while the professor writes fictional news updates based on current events. Students get to discuss the news and make decisions based on how they (and their country) would react.

Hands-on learning can be a lot of fun, but it’s also a way to geek out - which just might be what college is all about in the first place.

4) Quality Over Quantity

An honors education is about depth.

Ever felt like you were assigned homework just for the sake of giving you something to do?Fortunately, that doesn’t happen in honors classes.

That’s because an honors education is about depth. We’re not interested in assigning busywork to students. Instead, Honors classes help students attend to their learning in deeper ways--be it using different critical perspectives and theoretical lenses or through hands-on assignments that access multiple intelligences.

Heavy stuff. But so worth it! And weirdly fun, once you get into it.

Honors classes can sound intense. But don’t worry. Remember: if you got accepted, then you’re qualified.

So, does all that sound overwhelming, or exciting? Would getting into an honors program make you more likely to attend a college? If you didn’t get into an honors program at your school of choice, then maybe you should consider applying to just one more college.

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Parentheses

 

Parentheses

Parentheses (always used in pairs) allow a writer to provide additional information. The parenthetical material might be a single word, a fragment, or multiple complete sentences.

Whatever the material inside the parentheses, it must not be grammatically integral to the surrounding sentence. If it is, the sentence must be recast. This is an easy mistake to avoid. Simply read your sentence without the parenthetical content. If it makes sense, the parentheses are acceptable; if it doesn’t, the punctuation must be altered.

Correct: The president (and his assistant) traveled by private jet.

Incorrect: The president (and his assistant) were expected to arrive by 10:00 a.m.

Placement of other punctuation

When a parenthetical sentence stands on its own, the closing punctuation mark for the sentence is placed inside the closing parenthesis.

The idea that theoretical physics can be taught without reference to complex mathematics is patently absurd. (But don’t tell that to the publishers of such mathematics-free books—or the people who buy them.)

When parenthetical content occurs at the end of a larger sentence, the closing punctuation mark for the sentence is placed outside the closing parenthesis.

After three weeks on set, the cast was fed up with his direction (or, rather, lack of direction).

When parenthetical content occurs in the middle of a larger sentence, the surrounding punctuation should be placed outside the parentheses, exactly as it would be if the parenthetical content were not there.

We verified his law degree (Yale, class of 2002), but his work history remains unconfirmed.

When a complete sentence occurs in parentheses in the middle of a larger sentence, it should neither be capitalized nor end with a period—though a question mark or exclamation point is acceptable.

We verified his law degree (none of us thought he was lying about that) but not his billion-dollar verdict against Exxon (how gullible did he think we were?).

Specialized uses

Numbered or lettered lists should use a pair of parentheses to enclose the numbers or letters.

Please submit the following four items with your application: (1) a cover letter, (2) a resume, (3) a college transcript, and (4) a list of professional references.

Time zones are usually enclosed in parentheses following the time.

The conference call will be held at 9:00 a.m. (EST).

Area codes are sometimes enclosed in parentheses.

If you have any questions, please call me at (212) 555-7875.

Short translations in unquoted text can be placed in parentheses. (Use brackets for translations in quoted text.)

His knowledge of Portuguese is limited to obrigado (thank you) and adeus (goodbye).

In some writing, a person’s year of birth and year of death are provided in parentheses when the person is first mentioned. If there is uncertainty about the year, a question mark should follow it. Note that an en dash, rather than hyphen, is used between the years.

Guido Cavalcanti (1255?–1300) had a profound influence on the writings of Dante.

Abbreviations and acronyms

On the first use of an abbreviation or acronym that might not be understood by your readers, the full term can be provided in parentheses.

John Smith has been appointed CKO (chief knowledge officer) of the merged company.

In reverse, an acronym or abbreviation can be provided in parentheses upon its first use, and then used in place of the full term in the remainder of the document.

In conducting the study, researchers relied on positron emission tomography (PET) and, to a lesser extent, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

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List of Adjectives

List of Adjectives

Adjectives describe or indicate the degree of nouns or pronouns. Also, they are occasionally used after linking verbs.

abrupt

acidic

adorable

adventurous

aggressive

agitated

alert

aloof

amiable

amused

annoyed

antsy

anxious

appalling

appetizing

apprehensive

arrogant

ashamed

astonishing

attractive

average

batty

beefy

bewildered

biting

bitter

bland

blushing

bored

brave

bright

broad

bulky

burly

charming

cheeky

cheerful

chubby

clean

clear

cloudy

clueless

clumsy

colorful

colossal

combative

comfortable

condemned

condescending

confused

contemplative

convincing

convoluted

cooperative

corny

costly

courageous

crabby

creepy

crooked

cruel

cumbersome

curved

cynical

dangerous

dashing

decayed

deceitful

deep

defeated

defiant

delicious

delightful

depraved

depressed

despicable

determined

dilapidated

diminutive

disgusted

distinct

distraught

distressed

disturbed

dizzy

drab

drained

dull

eager

ecstatic

elated

elegant

emaciated

embarrassed

enchanting

encouraging

energetic

enormous

enthusiastic

envious

exasperated

excited

exhilarated

extensive

exuberant

fancy

fantastic

fierce

filthy

flat

floppy

fluttering

foolish

frantic

fresh

friendly

frightened

frothy

frustrating

funny

fuzzy

gaudy

gentle

ghastly

giddy

gigantic

glamorous

gleaming

glorious

gorgeous

graceful

greasy

grieving

gritty

grotesque

grubby

grumpy

handsome

happy

harebrained

healthy

helpful

helpless

high

hollow

homely

horrific

huge

hungry

hurt

icy

ideal

immense

impressionable

intrigued

irate

irritable

itchy

jealous

jittery

jolly

joyous

juicy

jumpy

kind

lackadaisical

large

lazy

lethal

little

lively

livid

lonely

loose

lovely

lucky

ludicrous

macho

magnificent

mammoth

maniacal

massive

melancholy

melted

miniature

minute

mistaken

misty

moody

mortified

motionless

muddy

mysterious

narrow

nasty

naughty

nervous

nonchalant

nonsensical

nutritious

nutty

obedient

oblivious

obnoxious

odd

old-fashioned

outrageous

panicky

perfect

perplexed

petite

petty

plain

pleasant

poised

pompous

precious

prickly

proud

pungent

puny

quaint

quizzical

ratty

reassured

relieved

repulsive

responsive

ripe

robust

rotten

rotund

rough

round

salty

sarcastic

scant

scary

scattered

scrawny

selfish

shaggy

shaky

shallow

sharp

shiny

short

silky

silly

skinny

slimy

slippery

small

smarmy

smiling

smoggy

smooth

smug

soggy

solid

sore

sour

sparkling

spicy

splendid

spotless

square

stale

steady

steep

sticky

stormy

stout

straight

strange

strong

stunning

substantial

successful

succulent

superficial

superior

swanky

sweet

tart

tasty

teeny

tender

tense

terrible

testy

thankful

thick

thoughtful

thoughtless

tight

timely

tricky

trite

troubled

twitter pated

uneven

unsightly

upset

uptight

vast

vexed

victorious

virtuous

vivacious

vivid

wacky

weary

whimsical

whopping

wicked

witty

wobbly

wonderful

worried

yummy

zany

zealous

zippy