College Essay Boot Camp- Day 7 (Monday)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. Bears Ears Forms
2. Class Leadership for Bears Ears Trip- Sign up here!
3. Modified Schedule for This Week- 
   1. Tuesday- Meet 4th and 5th periods in the Commons
   2. Wednesday- Normal Wednesday schedule
   3. Thursday- Meet 4th and 5th periods in the Commons
   4. Friday- Meet 4th and 5th periods in the Commons

College Essay Work Time
If you need more time to complete your final revisions, now is the time!  You can revise, refine, proofread, conference with me, or do whatever else you need to do to finish up your essay.

WHEN YOU FINISH, do the following...before the end of class!

College Essay Boot Camp Feedback
Complete the Google Form feedback survey on College Essay Bootcamp:  SURVEY IS HERE!
 
Exhibit Your Work:  DONE TODAY

1. Create your COLLEGE ESSAY DISPLAY BOARD!  See the document linked here, and the example on my board.
2. When your display board is put together, stack them neatly on the table in the front of the room. 

 
DP Update​:  DUE WEDNESDAY, 9/19

1. Write 1 paragraph about your revision in your College Essay.  Talk about one specific way that you grew as a writer between your first and final drafts of your College Essay.  In this paragraph, you should include:
   • How you grew (what skill improved?)
   • What it was like before (give a specific example- you could quote an early draft of your essay here!)
   • What feedback you got that pushed you to revise
   • Evidence of your growth in this area (again, you should quote the final draft of your essay here!)
   • Explanation of what you did to make this growth happen- what was your process?
2. Create a tab for your college essay.  It can be within your Humanities class tab, or can be separate.  Include the information from your Display Board, the full text of your college essay, and the one paragraph reflection.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: DUE TUESDAY, 9/18
Read the text I give you, and annotate it.  Then, do a quick writing on two of the following questions (about a paragraph each).  You can choose one question, but everyone must address the bolded question.
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1. “The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a little hypocrisy everyone is happier not to expose.”  What does this mean? Do you agree? Why/why not?
2. How much are you subject to the “mule mentality” (paragraph 8)?  What impact does this have on you? Where does this come from?
3. “The purpose of abolishing grades and degrees is not to punish mules or to get rid of them but to provide an environment in which that mule can turn into a free man.”  To what extent are you a mule? To what extent are you a free man?
4. The transformation described in this piece is predicated on the idea that everyone has an innate “creative intelligence” that has been stifled.  Do you agree with this premise? Why/why not?
5. “He’d be a knowledge-motivated person. He would need no external pushing to learn. His push would come from inside.”  When have you felt this? What contexts/subjects are conducive to this experience?
6. How motivated are you by grades?  How motivated are you by knowledge?  What implications does this have for your senior project?
7. Make sure to note that senior project itself is ungraded...how then, can we connect senior project to ideas in this text.  Inspiring? Terrifying? Both?
8. Last line:  “It would be the real thing.”  What do you need to do to make sure your Senior Project is the “real thing?”

HOMEWORK

1. DP Update:  Update it completely with your College Essay (see above for requirements).  DUE: Wednesday 9/19, start of class.
2. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:  Read and annotate, write a two paragraph response to the bolded question above + one other question.