Personal Essay

We begin the year by focusing on, well, you. The personal essay is a piece of the college application that tends to feel overwhelming. I hope that, by working through this unit, you will feel more comfortable with the essay and be able to explore different aspects of who you are.

Here are some of the items we will consider while preparing to write your essay

• Common App essay prompts: these will be our endpoint - you will submit ONE of these essays for a writing grade at the end of the unit (here's a link to the source in case you want to explore)

• FAQs

Getting started:

• Warm Ups

• Essence Box activity: watch the video and complete the chart

• The Values Exercise

Structuring the Essay:

• 2 main structures

• Common App drafting sheet