Dear Students,
Today we will listen to the interviews with former slaves.
Please go to this link http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/title.htmland take notes on what you hear. Write 3-5 questions that you will research and respond to your questions in the comments you post today. Please sign the posts for credit!
Monday, March 3, 2008
College Essay
These are the personal statement prompts that The Common Application includes to help determine eligibility for college entrance. Please choose one and write an essay (250 words minimum) about yourself as a person and as a student.
1. Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
2. Discuss some issue of personal, local, national or international concern and its importance to you.
3. Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.
4. Describe a character in fiction, a historical figure, or a creative work (as in art, music, science, etc.) that has had an influence on you, and explain that influence.
5. A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.
1. Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
2. Discuss some issue of personal, local, national or international concern and its importance to you.
3. Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.
4. Describe a character in fiction, a historical figure, or a creative work (as in art, music, science, etc.) that has had an influence on you, and explain that influence.
5. A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Boston and the world
Dear Students,
Today we will be analyzing the way that others view our city and compare this view to what we think of cities from our history studies. Please go to these links as resources:
http://abostonvignette.blogspot.com/
Choose 1 assignment:
- Write a photo-essay about a neighborhood shown on universal hub.
- Respond to an article or post on the website.
- Compare Boston and our social problems and assets to a city that we have studied in class together.
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