District AVID celebration 2015
FINAL
Here is a copy of the instructions for the final essay for this class. I am so proud and excited as we finish up a really great year and your career in high school and in AVID.
Essays are DUE Monday, June 1st so that I can get them graded in time for graduation.
AVID 12
Final
Exam, Semester 2
2015
For a final assessment of
your accomplishments in AVID class, I would like you to write me a paper that
reflects on your experience in high school and in AVID and is insightful,
thought provoking and, absolutely and without question, well-written and
thoroughly proofread and edited. This paper should be a lot like a lot of
papers you will write in you freshman year of college: three to four pages in
length (double spaced, one-inch margins) and displaying a college level mastery
of academic tone and organization.
Prompt:
You can reflect on any particular aspect of your experience in high school
and/or AVID that sticks with you, but I suggest that one way to organize your thoughts might be to create an original
metaphor for your experience and build the essay around that. Another way to go is chronological—but that
tends to turn into a less than inspiring catalog of your grades in different
years, etc., that doesn’t offer you the best framework for really exploring
your thoughts and feelings about your experience.
Hint:
Please use an ORIGINAL metaphor—do not talk about how life is like a baseball
game or how love is a rose or how the USA is like a salad bowl. Maybe AVID is a
pickle? A new pair of shoes? Maybe high school is circus, a spice
rack—whatever. Be original!
Another good way to go is to focus on a particular event or activity that you are
involved with and focus on that—expand and explain how it is a good way to talk
about how much you have learned or grown or changed or focused your energies
over the last four years. EXAMPLE:
A sport or a class you love: going from learning and improving to teaching and
coaching little kids—use that as a tool to talk about growing up and your
school/AVID experience. EXAMPLE:
How do you spend your lunch time and what does that say about how you have
changed over the years—maybe lunch periods can tell about a lot of things in your
high school/AVID experience—maybe not!
Hint: Be sincere and original—be yourself and give
yourself enough time to write and revise and edit and express your true voice. Do
NOT write a formula essay!
Thanks,
Mrs. Eddy
