3/6 Ideas from Yesterday and Personal Statement

Get netbook, pull up the blog and Gmail.

www.plhswritingworkshop.blogspot.com

Get into GoogleDocs and look at my comments from yesterday. If you had a digital version of your poem, notes are on that too (only three I haven't gotten to - Heather, Rachelle, Michelle L - I will get to those soon!).

If you were absent, it's your homework to look at the blog and create a document/notebook following the directions posted yesterday. Come to me at lunch in 861 if you have problems - it needs to be done before class tomorrow.

Your ideas from yesterday...

Next project:

"The purpose of the personal statement essay is to introduce yourself to your panelists as you reflect on your high school years and all that you experienced and learned, and how you changed from day one until now."

Many of your ideas fell into personal experience, a passion in your life, and plans after graduation, which are the prompts for the Personal Statement. That is a link to the guidelines the school has provided. If you want to look over all of it, you can look at that. If you want to keep a copy that you can edit in your own documents, click File and then Make a Copy.

Micro-Memoir and Flash Fiction/Short-short Stories

Jim Ruland's Class in San Diego: "Participants will explore how short intense bursts of autobiographical prose can illuminate the larger truths of our lives." He calls the class Micro Memoir: The Art & Craft of Quick Confessions.

Jim Ruland's Homeward Bound Article

To annotate with me and keep a copy in your documents, open this and click 'File,' 'Make a Copy.'

If you want more inspiration, here's a flash fiction I wrote for a class and put on my friend Ryan's blog - He'll get really excited if 34 people looked at this link today ;)

School Prompts: Look over these questions (you do not need to answer each one, just to help you brainstorm) and then in your notebook write a list of experiences that have affected you in your life. 

What has been your most significant and meaningful life experience? Was it a community-based service activity? Was it an assignment for a class, a school based program, a field trip? Was it a personal family experience?

How has this experience influenced your daily life? Your goals for your future?

How has this experienced changed you and the way you think or live?

What is the most important thing you have you learned through this experience?

Think about a relationship, an event, a situation, a moment.... you have a short amount of words!