(2)+FALL+Day+2+Activities

===MYTH TWO: Since I have only 25 minutes, I should not waste time outlining or doing a daisy wheel or writing List-Analyze-Organize chart or writing a Question-Answer-Details chart. I should just start and let ideas flow.===
 * Day Two Activities **

Task 1: Read the format overview for an example SAT prompt found at [|__http://www.majortests.com/sat/essay.php__] .

Task 2: Review their two essay formats at [|__http://www.majortests.com/sat/essay-formats.php__] .

Task 3: Read the sample essay on the sample prompt: [|__http://www.majortests.com/sat/essay-sample2.php__] .

Task 4: Using a word processor, decode three of the nine topics found at this site: [|__http://www.majortests.com/sat/essay-topics.php.__]

What is meant by the word decoding ?

Topic No _ found at web site Cut and paste the quotation and the assignment: Paraphrase the quotation (put it into your own words: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #990000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What question does the assignment ask you to consider? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #990000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Take a side on the issue of the prompt (what will you prove in your essay): <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #990000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give at least one example you will develop in your essay:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Type your 4-line heading on your word document, and then cut and paste the template 3 times into your word document.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here is a sample entry just like those you will create on a topic not found on the link above. The College Board provides this sample quotation and assignment at <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://sat.collegeboard.org/practice/writing-sat-essay__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #990000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cut and paste the quotation and the assignment:

//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You have twenty-five minutes to write an essay on the topic assigned below. // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below. //

//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Many persons believe that to move up the ladder of success and achievement, they must forget the past, repress it, and relinquish it. But others have just the opposite view. They see old memories as a chance to reckon with the past and integrate past and present. // //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Adapted from Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation //

//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Assignment: Do memories hinder or help people in their effort to learn from the past and succeed in the present? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. //

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #660000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paraphrase the quotation (put it into your own words) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">While some people believe one should forget and move on from all events of the past, others think that one needs to learn for the past and apply it to their goals in the present. //

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #990000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What question does the assignment ask you to consider? //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do memories have a negative impact on one’s ability to succeed or are they an integral part of success. //

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #990000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Take a side on the issue of the prompt (what will you prove in your essay): //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Memories are good: they provide examples and inspiration of success as well as reminders of paths to avoid. // <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #990000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give at least one example you will develop in your essay: //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Memories of my grandmother’s conquering T.B. provide an example of one who found success through perseverence. //

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Task 5: Email the decoding of the three drafts to your English teacher. Attach it as a rich text file so that more word processors can open the file.

Ms. Bowers

Ms. Green

Ms. Horder

Mr. Lee

Mrs. McNash

Mr. Moore

Ms. Ratliff

Ms.Szymanski