Writing time and conferences
Peer Response Protocol
Lesson: Interview Tips - Acing the Alumni Interview
Supplemental essay sample - Odd Numbers, U of Chicago Fall 2015
Sharing our Essays
End-of-Course Survey on Google Forms
Thank you for participating and for your hard work this week! See you in the fall!
Friday, July 24, 2015
Thursday, July 23, 2015
DAY 4 AGENDA AND HANDOUTS
Q&A from yesterday: Read and answer any questions from the exit slips
Writing time: Select one of the prompts to respond to. Use the samples to help guide you and generate ideas. Begin teacher conferences on drafts.
Peer Response Protocol/Continue teacher conferences on drafts.
Lesson/Activity: The power of revision: style!
Share the first draft and revised draft of the NYU Short Answer "What club would you start at NYU?"
Discuss as a group: What are some stylistic techniques this applicant used in his revised essay? What "works"?
Pass out " Ten Steps to Sexier, Sassier Sentences" and "Electronic Windex" handouts
Writing Time: Include some new stylistic techniques in one or both of your drafts. Experiment with sentence lengths and styles, figures of speech, figures of repetition, or other rhetorical techniques. Be prepared to share! Continue teacher conferences.
Share out w/ partner, then ask some to share with whole group--what did you try? Let's hear a line/paragraph you're proud of.
Handling short responses: be specific, and remember that even the shortest of short answer-essays should reveal positive qualities about you AND demonstrate your writing style!
Sample short answer using a character from literature
Writing time: Select one of the prompts to respond to. Use the samples to help guide you and generate ideas. Begin teacher conferences on drafts.
Peer Response Protocol/Continue teacher conferences on drafts.
Lesson/Activity: The power of revision: style!
Share the first draft and revised draft of the NYU Short Answer "What club would you start at NYU?"
Discuss as a group: What are some stylistic techniques this applicant used in his revised essay? What "works"?
Pass out " Ten Steps to Sexier, Sassier Sentences" and "Electronic Windex" handouts
Writing Time: Include some new stylistic techniques in one or both of your drafts. Experiment with sentence lengths and styles, figures of speech, figures of repetition, or other rhetorical techniques. Be prepared to share! Continue teacher conferences.
Share out w/ partner, then ask some to share with whole group--what did you try? Let's hear a line/paragraph you're proud of.
Handling short responses: be specific, and remember that even the shortest of short answer-essays should reveal positive qualities about you AND demonstrate your writing style!
Sample short answer using a character from literature
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
DAY 3 AGENDA AND HANDOUTS
Q&A from yesterday: Read & answer any questions from the exit slips
Writing time: Select one of the prompts to respond to. Use the samples to help guide you and generate ideas.
Lesson/Activity: PPT - Writing Effective Introductions
Following the powerpoint, review the essays already seen--baking, hurdles, marathon, pencil, and badminton. What type of introduction style does each one employ?
Writing Time: Begin a second prompt with a new introduction style, or revise the intro on your first draft to make it more engaging.
Partner share: What did you do to your introduction?
Lesson/Activity: Taking Risks
Film clip: From Legally Blonde, "Elle's Video Essay"
Return to yesterday's "Sound Advice from an Expert" article--what are the "risks" associated with a risky essay? Discuss and review as a class.
Examine Risky Essay #1: The Stanford "What makes Stanford a good place for you?" and Stanford "Roommate" short answer mini-essays
Discuss: What "risks" does this writer take? Are they effective? Which parts of this essay "work" or are well crafted? Which parts, if any, are not as effective?
Examine Risky Essay #2: The UC Berkeley "Catholic" essay
Discuss: What "risks" does this writer take? Are they effective? Which parts of this essay "work" or are well crafted? Which parts, if any, are not as effective?
Writing Time: Include a risk if you want to--or not!
Conduct Peer response protocol - remember, if you took a risk or used humor in your draft, get feedback on whether it works!
Exit slips: What's something you have learned so far about college essays? What do you want to work on next? How are your drafts coming along?
Writing time: Select one of the prompts to respond to. Use the samples to help guide you and generate ideas.
Lesson/Activity: PPT - Writing Effective Introductions
Following the powerpoint, review the essays already seen--baking, hurdles, marathon, pencil, and badminton. What type of introduction style does each one employ?
Writing Time: Begin a second prompt with a new introduction style, or revise the intro on your first draft to make it more engaging.
Partner share: What did you do to your introduction?
Lesson/Activity: Taking Risks
Film clip: From Legally Blonde, "Elle's Video Essay"
Return to yesterday's "Sound Advice from an Expert" article--what are the "risks" associated with a risky essay? Discuss and review as a class.
Examine Risky Essay #1: The Stanford "What makes Stanford a good place for you?" and Stanford "Roommate" short answer mini-essays
Discuss: What "risks" does this writer take? Are they effective? Which parts of this essay "work" or are well crafted? Which parts, if any, are not as effective?
Examine Risky Essay #2: The UC Berkeley "Catholic" essay
Discuss: What "risks" does this writer take? Are they effective? Which parts of this essay "work" or are well crafted? Which parts, if any, are not as effective?
Writing Time: Include a risk if you want to--or not!
Conduct Peer response protocol - remember, if you took a risk or used humor in your draft, get feedback on whether it works!
Exit slips: What's something you have learned so far about college essays? What do you want to work on next? How are your drafts coming along?
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