Block Day: Week 1

* Open
  • Grammar
    • Compose one simple sentence and share it with your neighbor. 
  • Pray and Recite
  • Note: A number of you have read books from the quarter reading, and some asked about reading books outside of the literary period.  I relaxed the restriction on books for you, so if you have read a book from the quarter list already, you may read whatever you wish for your outside reading that quarter. 


* Let's Talk about College Essays: Part I: How Colleges Read Applications
  • WWII
    • The essay became a regular part of admissions after the WWII enrollment explosion.
  • How Colleges Read Essays
    • They seek to build a scholarly community.   
    • "Precision Guesswork" (Princeton)
  •  Recommendations
    • Go to your recommenders
    • Suggestion: Waive your right to access
  • Interviews
    • A two-way street (thing of some good questions for your interviewer)
    • Roll with the punches
  • The Essay
    • Can you write?  Can you think?  What do you care about?
    • For some schools, the essay is the most important part of the application, for others the essay may rank 2nd or 3rd (some may have no essay).  
    • Organization, analysis, interpretation (same skills you've been honing elsewhere)
      • The strange part is, you are analyzing your own experience. 
    • Really, can you THINK?
    • Do they hear YOU, or will they mark it DDI (Daddy did it)?
  • Planning
    • School CEEB Code: 053705
    • Can you visit, interview, check in with, find on Facebook...faculty, students, or alumni?
    • Who will recommend?  How many do you need?
    • DI or DII sports?  File your NCAA Eligibility form. 
    • Preregister for CSS/Financial Ad PROFILE
    • Naviance
    • Early action or early decision?  Time to move. 
    • Oct. SAT?


* AP Practice  

* Anglo-Saxon Poetry

HW: Read Through Line 500 of Beowulf

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