Student Writing Intensive B Week 1

Student Intensive Continuation CDue Week7

Day 1

Rename this file: FirstLastName_7_SICC.doc.

Gawain 7.1

Norman Rockwell paper: Add missing style, proofread, and check that everything from the checklistis covered. Submit Week 7 by the end of today! Before the next class, you’ll submit it again, instructions what to do Day 3.

Day 2Gawain 7.2

You have the rest of this week and next assignment to write and polish a college application essay.

DVD: Skip to Disc 9. Watch from “College Application Essays” to the end of “Helpful Hints,” about 44 minutes. Stop when Mr. Pudewa hands out a sample essay. Be sure to take good notes!

If you already know which schools you wish to apply to and if any require an essay, choose one of those to work on and follow its length requirements.

If you do not know where you wish to apply, choose one of the following from the Common Application (quoted straight from their website):

These are the Common App questions:

The essay demonstrates your ability to write clearly and concisely on a selected topic and helps you distinguish yourself in your own voice. What do you want the readers of your application to know about you apart from courses, grades, and test scores? Choose the option that best helps you answer that question and write an essay of no more than 650 words, using the prompt to inspire and structure your response. Remember: 650 words is your limit, not your goal. Use the full range if you need it, but don't feel obligated to do so. (The application won't accept a response shorter than 250 words.)

1. Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
2. The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?
3. Reflect on a time when you challenged a belief or idea. What prompted you to act? Would you make the same decision again?
4. Describe a problem you’ve solved or a problem you’d like to solve. It can be an intellectual challenge, a research query, an ethical dilemma—anything that is of personal importance, no matter the scale. Explain its significance to you and what steps you took or could be taken to identify a solution.
5. Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.

Your essay should be about 400-600 words unless the essay you chose has different requirements. It should have a distinct introduction and conclusion as well as body paragraphs.You choose how many body paragraphs, but each needs a distinct purpose, and each body paragraph should develop1 to 2 supporting illustrations with excellent detail.

Today, discuss with family members these questions. Narrow down to the one you believe will be most successful based on the experiences you have had. Brainstorm with family members for illustrations you will use.

Day 3Gawain 7.3

Before writing, follow these steps:

1. Save a new copy of this same document. Add “2” in the file name so both are saved.
2. In copy #2, delete the Norman Rockwell picture and paper.
3. Start your college application essay in this document.
4. Before our next class, send as an attached message at Engrade this assignment with the college application essay.
5. I will not grade this version, assuming it to be a rough draft, but will read through it primarily to check content and will alert you to red flags if I see any.
6. I will not mark grammar or style, so do not assume errors have been flagged. 
7. If you do not send this to me, I will have to deduct 15 points from your grade for Week 7.

Copy/paste the question you are answering at the top of the page and include the name of the college if not a common app question. Underneath, write your outline. Begin your paper on the page after that.

Write about half of your rough draft today.

Day 4Gawain 7.4

Finish your rough draft.

Day 5

Save this file as an MSWord documentwith the assignment, checklist, and your college application essay. Email to me before our next class.

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Late Paper Policy for IEW Online Level C

1. Papers: due before class on due date
2. Extensions: up to two days but only with written exception from a parent before class and only for extenuating circumstances
3. Unexcused late papers: -10 daily. After 2 days, Missing (grade: zero)

ChecklistDue Week 7 Grade: /100

Late?

Sentence openers: Mark with brackets one of each in every body paragraph

Quotation: famous and easily recognizable

*Norman Rockwell paper: For dress-ups and openers, I will grade only one paragraph, but you must still mark dress-ups and openers in all three. Where indicated, tell me which paragraph to grade.

Copy/paste your Norman Rockwell painting and add a short description of what is in each paragraph.

Picture 1: Jimmy with stick and handkerchief kneeling down saying goodbye to dog, garage in background, broken window, baseball bat and mitt on ground with note,

Picture 2: Jimmy on a stool talking to the waiter and police, waiter and police interested in boy, police know he is running away, chat with boy, waiter joins conversation, Jimmy tell of future as Hollywood star, police slyly convinces to go back home

Picture 3: Jimmy in his white walled nursery playing marbles, grounded, dog happy, mother never notice he was gone, grounded for breaking window,

Please grade style in paragraph __3__.

John-Paul Young

Mrs. Flower

Continuation Course

September 20, 2016

Oops

[4] Kneeling andcaressing his doginside a dark mildew garage where a spilled gas can perforated the air, Jimmy Howard stared vacuously into space as he imagined his futureas foreigner andfugitive in the world. [2] In his despair, contemplations of becoming a fugitive were inspired by the scene that surrounded him. Shattered glass on the floor, a baseball bat, and a mitt lying carelessly among the mess gave witness to Jimmy’s unintentional crime. [6] He had broken the window. [3] Previously, Jimmy had considered making his own in the world before this incident, however, he had lacked the courage before to run away. [5] Although the uncertainty of the future scared him, the wrath and punishment of his mother concerning the broken window trumped that fear. So there he was, kneeling by his faithful mutt and fantasizing about his new future.

[4] Sitting on a bar stool, Jimmy took a pit stop at the quaint little café on fourth street and conversed with the owner and the local deputy while on his way to make his own in the world. [2] Before leaving home, he had packed up his jacks and a few miscellaneousitems lying in his room into his picnic blanket and hoisted it onto his staff. [5] As he set out on his journey, like a soldier off to war, it came to Jimmy to prove his independence in the most masculine way possible. [6] He wanted coffee. Ordering coffee at the café on fourth street and taking a seat at the slightly high counter, Jimmy started a conversation with the local deputy that raised the eyebrows of the waiter. [3] Boisterously, Jimmy proceeded to tell of his future in the “big” city and of potential fame to be attributed to his name. Artfully, deputy Tayler told Jimmy that he had to return home and run away properly, which meant to get appropriately disowned. Hence, Jimmy sat at the high counter and was lectured by the deputy to run away the proper way.

[3] Temporarily distracted from running away, Jimmy sat rigid in his unembellished white-walled nursery as he heard a menacing voice from downstairs. [4] Walking into his mother’s kitchen, Jimmy, head held high, had necessitated his right to be disowned. [2] While clueless of the boy’s recent activities, she curtly reprimanded him for tracking in mud on to the tile floor and grounded him to his room for the afternoon. [5] As he played with his shiny smooth marbles, Jimmy fantasized that he was winning pool in a smoky bar house and nearly forgot about his accident with the garage window. [6] He was in perfect contentment. Jimmy’s ideas of running away were totally forgotten with his eight-year-old attention span. However, a yell from the garage made Jimmy go rigid in his room, and as he heard the voice hotly bellow his name, all Jimmy could think of was “oops.”

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