3-21 Second Paragraph of Cover Letter

So far, you've chosen a personal passion or meaningful life experience to talk about in your presentation. Yesterday, you were supposed to finish the first paragraph of the cover letter, which tells the panel about yourself and introduces the topic of your presentation.

Today we're editing the first paragraph and moving onto the second paragraph. The second paragraph ties the topic of the presentation to one or more of the school's ESLRs: Expected Schoolwide Learning Results

• complex thinker
• effective communicator
• responsible and self-directed worker
• involved citizen
• healthy life-style advocate

Continue to use the school's sample to help guide your writing.

Paragraph frame to get you started:

Point Loma High School expects us all to be ____________ (mention some or all ESLRs). My personal experience/passion has helped me become a _________________ by...


By the end of class today you need to have your second paragraph written in your online notebook or a separate document shared with me. That's another 10 points to your final grade for the cover letter.

Tomorrow, we will edit with each other and begin outlining your presentations. If you want to move ahead, you can begin thinking about your visual or start brainstorming for your Personal Statement Essay for extra credit.