College App Essay Samples/ Unicorns Miss the Boat / Robert's Cow Problem
Grade 12
- Handed backponse letters. (Don't lose them! They will go into your portfolio!)
- Assigned peer review groups. Discussed peer review process.
- Shared the following valuable links:
- College Board
- College Confidential
- U.S.News & World Report
- A+ Options for B Students
- Questbridge (QuestBridge is a non-profit program that links bright, motivated low-income students with educational and scholarship opportunities at some of the nation's best colleges. QuestBridge is the provider of the National College Match Program and the College Prep Scholarship.)
- Distribute sample app essays. Discuss the love letter to the University of Chicago.
- For Wednesday, read all the sample essays, identify examples of personal voice.
- Tomorrow: First peer review session.
Grade 10:
- Journal: Select a moment from this past weekend and describe it in as much detail as possible. (Note: a moment is no more than a few seconds.)
- Check in hw.
- Discuss journal assignment and the importance of being able to use 'specific details from the passage' when writing essays.
- Finish reading and annotating "The Last Unicorns."
- Copy model outline:
- Title: “The Last Unicorns”
Author: Edward Hoch
I. The “Big Four”
A. Characters: Shem, bearded man, Noah
B. Theme: saving the unicorns
C. Plot: Shem tries to buy unicorns. Bearded man says no. Shem tries to steal them. BM stops him. Shem tells Noah, can’t save unicorns.
D. Setting: Long ago, green fertile valley, farm, raining/ Tone: Gloomy
II. Plot Breakdown
A. Motivation: Save the unicorns
B. Conflict: BM won’t give them up
C. Complication: SAA
D. Suspense: Why does Shem want the unicorns?
E. Climax: Shem trying to steal the unicorns
F. Dénouement: Shem talking to Noah
III. Analytical Elements
A. POV: Third Person
B. Techniques: allusion to the story of Noah in The Bible. Also strong language identifying tone: dark, gloomy, dismal.
- Homework: Read and annotate "There Will Come Soft Rains."
Grade 9:
- (See first three bullets under grade 10)
- Review definition of "Shaker."
- Start reading chapter 1 of The Day No Pigs Would Die.
- No HW.
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