Class today began with a discussion of what the audience for the college and scholarship personal essays would want.
In short the class concluded that Admissions Officers and Scholarships Committee folk want to know the answer to the following questions:
Who are you?
Why do you deserve to be part of the college or to have the scholarship?
Are you a learner?
Will you take good advantage of the opportunity?
Do you have dreams, aspirations or goals?
What do you bring or offer?
How do you respond to challenges?
Are you committed to something?
Are you honest and sincere?
Next we began studying the Restaurant Review. Students will be writing a review this month.
We began by considering what the role of the critic is; we viewed and discussed this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih6jcKd7VwU&feature=related&safe=active
Then we discussed this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef91za0liTM&safe=active and discussed how being an egotistical reviewer is a problem because you may not give the audience of your review what it is they want.
Next, working in pairs, students read a multiple reviews to determine what the essential components of a good review are. Essential to a review is information to answer the question, "Should I go?"
In short the class concluded that Admissions Officers and Scholarships Committee folk want to know the answer to the following questions:
Who are you?
Why do you deserve to be part of the college or to have the scholarship?
Are you a learner?
Will you take good advantage of the opportunity?
Do you have dreams, aspirations or goals?
What do you bring or offer?
How do you respond to challenges?
Are you committed to something?
Are you honest and sincere?
Next we began studying the Restaurant Review. Students will be writing a review this month.
We began by considering what the role of the critic is; we viewed and discussed this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih6jcKd7VwU&feature=related&safe=active
Then we discussed this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef91za0liTM&safe=active and discussed how being an egotistical reviewer is a problem because you may not give the audience of your review what it is they want.
Next, working in pairs, students read a multiple reviews to determine what the essential components of a good review are. Essential to a review is information to answer the question, "Should I go?"
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