Block, 9/18 & 19 - Student vs. Grendel . . . I mean, Quizzy-Quiz

• 3PO

• GUM: you have eight minutes to review for your quiz. If it sounds like you're finished (superfluous chatting), then we will begin our quizzy-quiz a bit early ; )

• College Applications: The college essay is your opportunity to unlock your own word-hoard, to open your mouth and preen your plume, to become a scop, a shaper of a story that will sing the glories of character, all to enable you to enter the mead hall of your desires.  

• Some guidelines for the Personal Statement: 
1. Be sure to include the prompt when turning in any college essay writing piece.
2. Use MLA in your heading for work turned in.  
3. Consider opening in medias res (in the middle of things), like Homer (though an epic may not follow). 
4. Keep the active tense. Vary your sentences (do five sentences open with "I" or "My"? Change it). Be specific, avoid general statements about yourself and others.  
5. Look for the arc of negative to positive or positive to negative to positive.
6.  Colleges are more interested in you than people you'd rather talk about. 

• Prompts for Practice
• Common App Prompt(s) 

•  Student Personal Statements: read two of these on your own (except for the last one, which we will read together)
• Educational Experience
• Mother Watsonville
• Prunedale Promise
• The Bully (read together)

• Continue reading Beowulf and filling out the study guide questions with the groups assigned yesterday. 
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