Classwork on 5/6/08

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Based on the research you have done on the college essay, list three things that you have noticed about the requirements for writing a college essay.

1)attention grabber(introduction)

2)1 page, single-spaced

3)originality

4)good conventions(grammar)

5)must address the topic

Classwork on 5/2/08

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-What makes a good personal narrative for a college essay?

Something that you have experienced that makes you original from others with similar backgrounds. An experience that only you can experience because of its connection to you.

-weakness
-strength
-achievements
-lessons learned from experiences/failures
-life changing experience

-What does it mean to be a dynamic person(character)?

Character who goes through changes.

-Is this essay rich in imagery? Identify them.

Yes. "I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed."

-Do you notice any alliteration?

Yes. "Woo Women"

-Is the vocabulary extensive,eloquent(well expressed)?

Yes.

-What makes it memorable, fluent & persuasive?

He's basically saying that he has done all this and now he's ready to do more in their school if they persuade him.

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Write an experience that has changed you and then express how you feel about it.

Result of Failing City-Wide Test on purpose - angry, sad, upset, deprived, stupid, depressed, nervous

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (Ad-libbed Speech and Biography)

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Speech on Vietnam War

First we provide an inferior education for black students. Next we give them a series of tests which many will flunk because of an inferior education. Then we pack these academic failures off to Vietnam to be killed.

What is the thing that we loosely call freedom? This word is sanctioned with lies in the time of this war. Why restrain what we have taken the time to build so heavenly. An education is given to explore the mind but is wasted on this senseless war. Who are you? Who are we? Who I am to stop the birth of a mind that can grow beyond measure, which can one day lead us to liberty?

The tests were designed to select out the culturally gifted for continued college education and consign the intellectually deprived to the armed services. Implicit in the draft deferment tests is the theory of a race of Aryan supermen and the belief that rare great minds alone are fit to direct the destinies of a nation and to dispose of the lives of its untutored masses. Instead of a social democracy where equality is encouraged to flourish these draft deferment tests lay the foundation for a racial aristocracy. These tests are reminiscent of Hitler's twin system of eugenics and education -- weed out the intellectually deprived or socially undesirables by conscripting them for cannon fodder."

Bibliography:

http://www.aavw.org/protest/politics_powell_abstract05.html