Also courtesy of our College Counseling Office:
senior resume worksheet
Thursday, August 16, 2012
ucsb personal statement worksheet
Hi everyone, the following comes to us courtesy of the College Counseling Office. Please read and be prepared to think on paper next week.
ucsb personal statement worksheet
ucsb personal statement worksheet
additional thoughts: austen/montaigne essay
Today's "essayus interruptus" gives you a chance to put your blog to work. Remember all those conversations when you thought of the perfect thing to say-- too late? Now you can think of the perfect thing to say and publish it!
Tonight please post your thoughts on the experience of writing the essay to your blog. Specifically, you might address these questions:
To jog your memory further, here is the original prompt:
As David Foster Wallace wrote in his 2001 story "Good Old Neon":
What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.
Using what you've learned from your reading of Montaigne's techniques and topics, do you agree? How does Montaigne's style provide a window into his thinking? Compare with Austen's style in Pride & Prejudice. Include examples, and avoid merely summarizing the main points of the former or the plot of the latter.
Tonight please post your thoughts on the experience of writing the essay to your blog. Specifically, you might address these questions:
- what would you have written if you had more time?
- what occurred to you after you left?
- how did the interruption affect your thought process?
To jog your memory further, here is the original prompt:
As David Foster Wallace wrote in his 2001 story "Good Old Neon":
What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.
Using what you've learned from your reading of Montaigne's techniques and topics, do you agree? How does Montaigne's style provide a window into his thinking? Compare with Austen's style in Pride & Prejudice. Include examples, and avoid merely summarizing the main points of the former or the plot of the latter.
August 16
JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: Fela Kuti's "Teacher Don't Teach Me No Nonsense"]
How would you go about writing a satire of The Poisonwood Bible? Would you focus on the same issues/themes as Barbara Kingsolver? What techniques would you use to draw the reader in and cause him/her to think differently?
AGENDA:
1. Journal (or use the time to review summer reading notes for the essay)
2. Essay exam
HW:
1. Quiz tomorrow on Vocabulary #1 & The Right to Your Opinion
2. Make sure to submit Poetry Assignment #1 and memorize the poem by Monday, August 20
How would you go about writing a satire of The Poisonwood Bible? Would you focus on the same issues/themes as Barbara Kingsolver? What techniques would you use to draw the reader in and cause him/her to think differently?
AGENDA:
1. Journal (or use the time to review summer reading notes for the essay)
2. Essay exam
HW:
1. Quiz tomorrow on Vocabulary #1 & The Right to Your Opinion
2. Make sure to submit Poetry Assignment #1 and memorize the poem by Monday, August 20
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
August 15
JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: Mozart's Symphony #25 in G Minor]
There is a story about Thomas Edison in which one of his assistants said something like, "We've tried this a thousand ways and it doesn't work! We've accomplished nothing!" Edison reportedly replied, "Nonsense. We've learned a thousand ways it doesn't work." What's the moral of the story, and what is your perspective on the idea?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Orientation
3. Assignments & opportunities
4. (Vocabulary #1)
HW:
1. Define/study vocabulary [quiz Friday 8/17]
2. Read "The Right to Your Opinion" [questions may accompany vocab on Friday's quiz]
3. Poetry assignment [due Monday 8/20]
There is a story about Thomas Edison in which one of his assistants said something like, "We've tried this a thousand ways and it doesn't work! We've accomplished nothing!" Edison reportedly replied, "Nonsense. We've learned a thousand ways it doesn't work." What's the moral of the story, and what is your perspective on the idea?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Orientation
3. Assignments & opportunities
4. (Vocabulary #1)
HW:
1. Define/study vocabulary [quiz Friday 8/17]
2. Read "The Right to Your Opinion" [questions may accompany vocab on Friday's quiz]
3. Poetry assignment [due Monday 8/20]
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
beware: killer cows
This blog isn't just a learning game-changer. It's a life-saver.
Fall Semester Survival Tip #1: Cows kill more people than sharks.
(Thanks, BoingBoing!)
Fall Semester Survival Tip #1: Cows kill more people than sharks.
(Thanks, BoingBoing!)
the right to your opinion
It's such a simple way to end an argument: "Well, I'm entitled to my opinion."
Not according to logic. As author Jamie Whyte points out, one person's entitlement creates another's obligations. Think about it: if you are entitled to cross the street safely, I am obligated to not run you over in my car. But what if you're wrong in your thinking? What if we're in London, about to cross the street, and you look the wrong way and think the coast is clear? Am I obligated to watch you step off the curb and get crushed? Comprehension questions will accompany the vocabulary quiz Friday, August 17.
The Right to Your Opinion -
Not according to logic. As author Jamie Whyte points out, one person's entitlement creates another's obligations. Think about it: if you are entitled to cross the street safely, I am obligated to not run you over in my car. But what if you're wrong in your thinking? What if we're in London, about to cross the street, and you look the wrong way and think the coast is clear? Am I obligated to watch you step off the curb and get crushed? Comprehension questions will accompany the vocabulary quiz Friday, August 17.
The Right to Your Opinion -
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