Tag Archives: college essay

9/13/2016

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A few notes that we had today:

The end of the grading period is next week – SERIOUSLY! We don’t have time for procrastination. Every single person in here (except me!) has the goal of graduating and leaving in May/June, so make sure that your actions match your words. Don’t start in a deficit!

Thursday, we have play preview, but if you are failing, you’ll be staying in the classroom to get caught up on grades.

I won’t be here tomorrow, but I’m leaving legitimate work for you to do (vocabulary from Beowulf) that you’ll see again on the 6 weeks test next eek.

Speaking of tests, the 6 weeks test will be next Tuesday! Multiple choice!

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So today, we worked on and/or finished the Apply Texas essay. The goal is around 500 words, but focus more on answering the essay prompt rather than a word count.

I’m going to start pulling people for Panther Den RTI soon, so check those schedules!

Hope to see your parents at Open House tonight!

9/9/2016

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Today, we talked about Apply Texas, a helpful webpage for people who are going to college in Texas. It’s a central location where you can submit one application for a multitude of Texas colleges and universities – and you only have to pay one fee! Pretty cool, right? Right! Some of you might not *need* this essay, and others of you (who are going to A&M) will be writing two of them!

We are writing Essay A:

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This is a very broad topic. So in order to help arrow down our ideas, we did a brainstorming activity in Blackboard. We went over my examples and I gave it to you to use as a model.

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On Monday, we will choose the text structure for the essay and start writing it.