College Essay Bootcamp: Day 2

​Starter

Support Group Check In
Spend 10 minutes in your support group, checking in. 

1. Review your support group google doc/schedule. Make sure everyone knows what they need to do for the days, and have each person in the group share where they want to be by the end of class today.
2. Consider sharing out what works for you all about the brainstorm process or the writing process, etc...Pool your collective wisdom!
   
3. As a group, check out the "Documents" tab on my DP and look at the titles of the links under "Writing Resources" and "Project 1: College Essay Bootcamp".  Discuss which resources look most helpful to you, personally. (Full disclosure here, I'm making you do this so you'll actually pay attention to all the super helpful resources I've got for you!  Take advantage of them!)

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​Agenda

NOTE: Jess Adams will be here the beginning of 4th period and the beginning of 6th period to work with you all!

College Essay Work Time
Time to work on your college essay!  You could tackle any of the following:

1. Choose a Prompt- Figure out what prompt speaks to you.  Need help with this? Come talk to Ashley!
2. Brainstorm- Use your own method, or any of the methods linked on my Documents page to help you generate ideas.
3. Write- Start writing, get words on the page.  Remember, at this point it's okay to go over the word limit.  We can always cut later.
4. Get Feedback- Show your writing to Ashley, your support group, another teacher, other classmates.  
5. Revise- Make it better!  Cut, revise, focus, refine!  Check for show don't tell, cut extra words, replace boring sentences with more powerful ones, check out the revision strategies on the Documents page of my DP.

Please note that you should NOT be using your time for any of the following:

1. College Applications- This time is for writing your essay, NOT filling out the applications.  That needs to be done outside of my class.
2. Scholarship Applications- See above.
3. Work for Other Classes- This is pretty self-explanatory, right?
4. Time Wasting Techniques- Including, but not limited to....YouTube, social media, finger-boarding, cosmetics, movies, idle chatter.

Support Group Check-In
In the last 5 minutes of class, regroup with your support group.  Go around, see how well each person did at achieving the goal they set for themselves at the start of class today.
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Homework Reminder

Complete draft of college essay.  DUE: Start of class, Wednesday 9/12.  Need 3 printed copies for critique. Please print BEFORE class!

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