Harriet Jacobs photographs

Please analyze the Harriet Jacobs photographs on this website http://xroads.virginia.edu. Use this format to analyze the pictures.

1. Describe exactly what you see in the photo.
2. What people and objects are shown?
3. How are they arranged?
4. What is the physical setting?
5. What other details can you see?
6. Summarize what you already know about Harriet Jacobs. State what you know about the people and objects that appear.
7. What conclusions can you make about slavery?

Then analyze the memory project interview and write the following:

1. Title and source of the document
2. Who's speaking in the document? What can you tell about the speaker?
3. What information do you draw about children in the Civil War?
4. Is the information credible? Why or why not?
5. What questions does this document raise?

College Essay II

Here are some tips on what colleges are interested in:

• your goals
• how prepared you are for the future
• how you interact with different types of people
• what you have to offer the college as a person and a student
• your extra-curricular activities in and out of school
• if you are a master at something
• if you have entrepreneurial spirit
• that you know how to tell a story that is your story

revised from Jim Burke's English Teacher's Companion

Global and National Issues

These are some current topics that might give you ideas for your personal statement. Please research the subject matter by reading a recent news article in the Boston Globe or New York Times. Then write a response in the comments section.

For any current events topic, please consider both sides of the issue and take a position. Use evidence and accurate details in your analysis.

• The state of Texas's Child Protective Services intervention with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints religious sect. Children have been removed from their mothers and are now in foster care and shelters.

• Whale watching boats exceed the speed limit and cause harm to whales.

• Police want to search teenagers' homes to confiscate guns.