College Essay Time!

The final and perfect draft of your 500-words-or-less application essay is due NOVEMBER 12th

Here are the documents we used in class:
The analysis assignment and class schedule through November 20th
Tips on Essay writing AND the essays to analyze as models and examples

Here is the prompt from U of O:
The UO is interested in learning more about you. Write an essay of 500 words or less that shares information that we cannot find elsewhere on your application. Any topic you choose is welcome. Some ideas you might consider include your future ambitions and goals, a special talent, extracurricular activity, or unusual interest that sets you apart from your peers, or a significant experience that influenced your life. If you are applying to the UO's Robert D. Clark Honors College, feel free to resubmit your honors college application essay.

First Tutorials and Grades

Thursday, October 14th, we will have our first ever tutorials of the year--yeah!.
If you have not turned in your NEW IMPROVED TRF-- please do so before class on Thursday.
Please check your StudentVue page and get any outstanding assignments to Mrs. Eddy or Mrs. Ingerson by Thursday--thanks!

Tutorials, Ho!

Costa's terms and how to question for tutorials.
Lesson from October 6th

First Assignments!

Here they are, and I hope a lot easier to access.  Thank you so much for your patience with this.
Mrs. E
TED Talk with Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud
Transcript Evaluation and OSU Application eligibility lesson
OSU Insight Resume Questions

Last Call!

AVID Students:

Final Exam/ Essay is due today, as planned.  If you bring it in tomorrow (Tuesday, June 2nd) at the beginning of class, that will be the absolute last time I can possibly accept it.  All the details are on the last post if you need to check. Thanks you for a great year!

Mrs. Eddy

Last Task-- Celebration!

Last stuff! Here is a link to the video of the district celebration and the speeches-- especially awesome is our own Gabi Tellez-- of course!
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

Article to Read and Forms to Fill Out-- Almost done!

This week we read an article about why  what we are doing-- heading off to a four-year university-- is really the best thing we could be doing for our future-- great news!
NYT article to read
Questions to answer:
1- What is the thesis of this article:
2- Secondary Thesis:
3- Three key pieces of evidence:

Thursday and Friday we are at the computers to input our AVID Senior data.
Senior Data Link: coming soon