Here's a website for BNW created by a California Teacher. I think it is a little plain, but otherwise brilliant. Even the essay rubric works out well. October 9, 2009 Homework makep assignment. Follow the link to do the assignment. Utopia, Dystopia and Media Propaganda: Here's a copy of the script for the film Pleasantville. http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Pleasantville.html Pleasantville, like Bradbury's 451 weaves elements of 1950's culture into a utopian form only to critique the premise that America in the 1950's was ever remotely perfect. Watch the first fifteen minutes of the film and see how it critiques both modern life and its 50's counterpart. September 29-30 Moving from Story to College Admissions Essay through Personal Reflection Work on your college essays. Each student should have a completed draft, ready for workshop Friday. At this stage of the game the story you want to tell should be complete. What I want you to do today is to skip a couple of lines at the bottom of the page and write a small essay of personal reflection that answers the following question: What is it that you want your story to tell the admissions committee about you? What traits does the story highlight? How does this story convince them that you are both ready for college and determined to succeed? Use specific examples from your story, quotations, if you will, that are evidence of what you'd like to prove. The goal of this piece of writing is to help both of us realize how we need to edit the story to turn it into an admissions essay. You will be graded on this assignment. Every student should complete it before the sixty-seven minutes is done. It will count as a quiz grade. If you finish early, please continue reading 451. Remember that you have two sets of annotations from pp. 71-101 due tomorrow. B1 and D1, September 17-18 Exercise 1: Understanding the College Essay: Example Essays: Questions: What do all these essays have in common? How do they present the writer? What example essay seems to have a shape that most fits your life experience? In-class assingment: (Name) College Essay Draft (Block) College Prep For the next twenty minutes tell the story that you think best represents how you want colleges to see you. For now, just concentrate on telling the story. It is like brainstorming, don't worry about grammar or being clever--write from the heart. Say what really matters to you. The key to a successful college essay is making it personal and real! B5 and D5, September 15 and 16, 2009, respectively: Prewriting and Prethinking: 1, Take 5-10 minutes and write your vision of the future twenty years from now. This will make you about the age I am now. How do you envision your future self? What do you see, smell, hear, taste and touch? How has the world changed? What does the United States look like? What are you doing at this time in your life? 2. Are you happy? If you answer yes, then please list and/or describe the things that make you happy? If you would not call yourself happy, what things contribute to your dissatisfaction? What would you give to be happy? What would you do to reach this goal? Study questions for pp. 3-15: 1. Why would it be a pleasure to burn? (3) 2. Why does Clarisse say that she is "17 and insane"? Do you think teenagers and insanity go together? (7) 3. What do you think is hiding behind the heater grate in Montag's house? (10) 4. Characterize Montag's thinking on p. 10. Does he sound like someone who burns books? Why or why not? 5. What does Montag mean when he thinks that, "he wears his happiness like a mask" (12)? What figure of speech is employed here? For tonight. Go to the following link for the Common Application and read the essay prompts. |
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English Department
Winchester High School
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