Tuesday, October 13
DUE: Draft of Personal Statement in your LJ or typed and printed. Craft Exercise: Find three places in the draft where you could add dialogue. Write ten lines of dialogue for each of these places. Determine which best strengthens the essay with imagery, expresses understanding or insight and generally lifts the tone of the writing. One-on-one college admission consultations.
Wednesday, October 14
Special School Schedule
10th & 11th grade: Arrive by 8:10 for PSAT until 11:15
9th & 12th grade: Arrive by 9:30 and report to deisgnated locations
11:15 - school day begins with these 30-minute periods ONLY:
Period 2 11:19-11:49
Period 4 11:53-12:23
Period 5 12:27-12:57
Period 6 1:01-1:31
Period 8 1:35-2:05
Period 9 2:09-2:39
MR. GAGNON WILL BE ABSENT ON WEDNESDAY
In class on Wednesday go ahead and read the novel.
Another Country chapters and Written Exam will be on Thursday
Thursday, October 15
Written Exam on Another Country (Book 1, Chapter 1)
Friday, October 16
Personal Statement drafting continues
Another Country Discussion continues
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
College Applications & YOU the Brand
While researching something else, we came across the website Helium (click here ) and found an article titled "Personal brand management concepts" (click here ).
This article had a few ideas applicable to the college application process. How will you sell yourself to a college? By thinking of yourself as a "brand" to be marketed to colleges, you may also have advantages over other candidates. So...if this sounds interesting to you, read the article and then think about ways you can manage the college application as if you were managing a brand.
(We have our own ideas about how to go about managing YOU as a brand for the college application but think that YOU should think about it before we give any of them away.)
This article had a few ideas applicable to the college application process. How will you sell yourself to a college? By thinking of yourself as a "brand" to be marketed to colleges, you may also have advantages over other candidates. So...if this sounds interesting to you, read the article and then think about ways you can manage the college application as if you were managing a brand.
(We have our own ideas about how to go about managing YOU as a brand for the college application but think that YOU should think about it before we give any of them away.)
Have you checked out DOG STAR lately?
If you missed DOG STAR NYC this weekend, check out posts on these great things to do:
- Free program for teens interested in a design career
- Free admission all next week at Cooper Hewitt
- New video with Q Tip and Norah Jones from Hypebeast
- Free party at El Museo del Barrio coming up on Saturday
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Personal Statement - Update on Assignments
The weekend has been bright and beautiful. I hope you are getting out there and enjoying it - maybe even finding the fun on Dog Star NYC?
On-going homework: In your LJ, continue to make a list of colleges and a strategy for admission. The goal is to find a match: a college you can get in and one that meets your needs.
Past Due: The "another country" encounter description will need to be finished by the end of the week. It goes into the LJ and as you think of details and description to add, complete additional writing. Please stop asking if it is an essay to hand in. Please start listening to what is explained in class. As you now know the assignment relates to the novel you have been assigned to read. When we have more conversation about the text we will have more conversation about the writing we're doing on the text.
Personal Statement Number One: You are considering ONE specific encounter with a family member in which you had to overcome some obstacle. Consider all the causes, the persons involved, the time / place / setting and dialogue! Please have a draft on loose leaf paper or typed for Tuesday.
Personal Statement Number Two: Start thinking about this topic and any first thoughts and ideas you have for it are to be recorded in your LJ under "Personal Statement 2": Who are you meant to be? Are you that person now? Are you moving toward the person you are meant to be? While there may be many responses, there are only two essential elements to this question: the exterior person (the YOU on the outside, the one in a certain job or career, the one who people see every day) and there is the interior person (the YOU who may want to change some aspect of yourself, the one who can really shine if only..., the one nobody really knows). rather than choosing one of these in these first steps, write about both - the exterior and the interior - keeping in mind: Who are you meant to be? Is this challenging? YES! Push yourself!
On-going homework: In your LJ, continue to make a list of colleges and a strategy for admission. The goal is to find a match: a college you can get in and one that meets your needs.
Past Due: The "another country" encounter description will need to be finished by the end of the week. It goes into the LJ and as you think of details and description to add, complete additional writing. Please stop asking if it is an essay to hand in. Please start listening to what is explained in class. As you now know the assignment relates to the novel you have been assigned to read. When we have more conversation about the text we will have more conversation about the writing we're doing on the text.
Personal Statement Number One: You are considering ONE specific encounter with a family member in which you had to overcome some obstacle. Consider all the causes, the persons involved, the time / place / setting and dialogue! Please have a draft on loose leaf paper or typed for Tuesday.
Personal Statement Number Two: Start thinking about this topic and any first thoughts and ideas you have for it are to be recorded in your LJ under "Personal Statement 2": Who are you meant to be? Are you that person now? Are you moving toward the person you are meant to be? While there may be many responses, there are only two essential elements to this question: the exterior person (the YOU on the outside, the one in a certain job or career, the one who people see every day) and there is the interior person (the YOU who may want to change some aspect of yourself, the one who can really shine if only..., the one nobody really knows). rather than choosing one of these in these first steps, write about both - the exterior and the interior - keeping in mind: Who are you meant to be? Is this challenging? YES! Push yourself!
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Class Schedule Week of October 5-9
Monday, October 5
FINAL DUE: "Into the Light" papers on ONE short storyWarm/Cool Feedback Protocol
Debriefing
Tuesday, October 6
Collaborate with another student in class on an activityWednesday, October 7
Meet outside College Office - Room 239 for consultation with Dr. Powell and visit by rep from Skidmore College in Saratoga Spring's NY Thursday, October 8
College office consultation follow up
Making a Match
Friday, October 9
Making the Plan
College Student in G's Pace Class Shares Segregated Prom Link
ALL students are welcome to forward links and resources they think most relevant to our course work.
Whitney has passed along this link and I want to share her note about it, too:
After our discussion in class last night, I thought it would be appropriate to send you a link about a story that you may or may not have read. It was a story that came out in the NY Times earlier this year about segregated proms in Montgomery County, GA. I did not live in Montgomery County, and the segregated prom in my area stopped almost 10 years ago, but this story, from May of this year, shows that it is still going on in some parts with the only explanation being "tradition". I wanted to pass this along because I heard alot of people in class respond with shock and disbelief that segregation still exists, so I thought this would be something to supplement our discussion about the way that the issues from the past we have read about are still relevant today.
Here's the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24prom-t.html?_r=1
Whitney has passed along this link and I want to share her note about it, too:
After our discussion in class last night, I thought it would be appropriate to send you a link about a story that you may or may not have read. It was a story that came out in the NY Times earlier this year about segregated proms in Montgomery County, GA. I did not live in Montgomery County, and the segregated prom in my area stopped almost 10 years ago, but this story, from May of this year, shows that it is still going on in some parts with the only explanation being "tradition". I wanted to pass this along because I heard alot of people in class respond with shock and disbelief that segregation still exists, so I thought this would be something to supplement our discussion about the way that the issues from the past we have read about are still relevant today.
Here's the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24prom-t.html?_r=1
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