Extra Credit #7

Please write 3/4 of a page in response to this popular college application essay topic. Your response will be due by the end of the school day on Monday, November 2, 2015.


The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn?

Extra Credit Prompt #6

Please write 3/4 of a page in response to one of the topics below.  Your response is due by the end of the school day on Monday, October 26, 2015.

Journal Prompts

 

 

1. Who is your favorite band and why? What is it about them? The lyrics, people,
mood, tone??
2. If you could live anywhere, where would you live, and why is that the best place
to live? Why would I want to visit it too?
3. What profession do you want to be when you grow up? Have you always wanted
to be this, or is this profession a recent development?

Extra Credit Prompt #5

FIRST LINES/LAST LINES
Think of a story that might begin or end with one of these sentences: (Your story must be at least 3/4 of a page long.)

1. Low battery. Exactly the two words I didn’t want to see right now..
2. “Have you seen this?”
3. Rain turned the narrow path into a steam of mud and dead leaves.
4. Going on this vacation had been a mistake.
5. “What do you mean, you’re out of lemons?”
6. A day at the mall. I’d agreed to spend a day at the mall. An hour was my usual limit.
7. “No. You unwrap your present first.”
8. I yanked out my ear buds. That noise had to be a scream.
9. Margot always ate her vegetables first.
10. Mondays never go well.
11. How can someone get lost twice in one day?
12. Typical Michael.

This extra credit s due by the end of the school day on Monday, October 19.

Extra Credit Prompt #4

Please choose one of the following prompts.  All response must be at least 3/4 of a page in length.  Your response is due by the end of the school day on Monday, October 12.