1. Bellringer
As you are participating in the college application process, list the three schools you’ve designated as REACH, TARGET, and SAFETY schools.
Then describe the application essay questions or personal statement you’ll need in order to attend these three schools.
Then list your concerns about completing the college application process.

2. AP LITERATURE and COMPOSITION
“It’s a Motivated Monday!”
October 8, 2012
Mr. Houghteling

3. Bellringer
As you are participating in the college application process, list the three schools you’ve designated as REACH, TARGET, and SAFETY schools.
Then describe the application essay questions or personal statement you’ll need in order to attend these three schools.
Then list your concerns about completing the college application process.

4. Welcome to College Week!

5. Passage Goldmine ~ presentation Practice Analytical Paraphrase
AGENDA
Passage Goldmine ~ presentation
Practice Analytical Paraphrase
College Application Essay ~ Brainstorm Sheet
Sample College Essays

6. HOMEWORK Complete your Passage Goldmine on Slaughterhouse-Five.
Complete FIVE brainstorms on the personal statement sheet.
Read the college application sample essay 1, preparing to score it using a rubric provided for you.

7. Passage Goldmine—What is required?
In your chapter, you must identify at least two sections of text that you deem memorable or important. Then you must analyze those sections individually, discussing (using analytical paraphrase) what makes those passages important are significant to the reader.
You should always try to link your passage to the novel as a whole or some other big idea.

8. HOMEWORK Complete your Passage Goldmine on Slaughterhouse-Five.
Complete FIVE brainstorms on the personal statement sheet.
Read the college application sample essay 1, preparing to score it using a rubric provided for you.

9. Exit Slip
Read the following quote:
“Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future” (Vonnegut 60).
What link does this quotation have to the Serenity Prayer that reappears often throughout the novel?
The Serenity Prayer
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference.”