Lit/ Comp 11 Mr. Wu's Personal Essay Drafts

This post will contain all of the rough drafts I've been working on in class with you during our Personal Essay unit.  This post will be continually updated as I revise my drafts and add new drafts.

Common Application Prompt #1 Period 4 Draft

Common Application Prompt #1 Period 6 Draft

Ten Years Ago Common Application Prompt #1 Draft

Common Application Prompt #2 Period 4 Draft

Common Application Prompt #2 Period 6 Draft

Lit/ Comp 9 Mr. Wu's Personal Narrative Drafts

This post contains links to the drafts I have begun in class with you.  Return to post for updated versions of my drafts as well as new drafts.

This Is 40 Draft

Live Your Life 3 Important Words Draft

Knowledge Is Power 3 Important Words Draft

My Failure Prompt Draft

My Sample Personal Narrative Weave Draft

Lit/ Comp 11 and Writing 121 Personal Essay Samples and Excerpts

In this post, you will find all of the personal essay samples and excerpts we will have looked at and studied in class during our Personal Essay Unit.  This post will be constantly updated with the samples and excerpts so keep checking back to find a reading that we've used in class.

Common Application Question #1 Analysis

"Life Without Language" Common App Question #1 Sample

"I was a spy" Common Application Question #1 Sample

Common Application Question #2 Analysis

"Defeating the Devil Inside" Common Application Question #2 Sample

"Si no quieres estudiar" Common Application Prompt #2 Sample

"Emotional Agility" by Susan David

Common Application Prompt #3 Analysis

"I'm Not Really An Athlete" Common Application Prompt #3 Sample

"You Think You Already Know Everything" Common Application Prompt #3 Sample

"My Father's Words" Common Application Prompt #3 Sample

Common Application Prompt #4 Analysis

"Growing Strawberries" Common Application Prompt #4 Sample

"I Will Never Know" Common Application Prompt #4 Sample

Common Application Prompt #5 Analysis

"His Name Was Eric Ramirez" Common Application Prompt #5 Sample

"How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others In America" by Kiese Laymon

"You Want to Dye Your Head WHAT?" Common Application Prompt #5 Sample

Nineteen Eighty-Four Excerpt for Reader Response Journal Entry Work

Lit/ Comp 9 Personal Narrative Unit Articles and Excerpts

In this post, you will find all of the articles and excerpts we will use in class to learn the art of the personal narrative.  This post will be constantly updated, so keep checking this post if you want to find any of the articles and excerpts we use in class.

This Is 45 by Emily Mendell

Sick In Bed by Sheila Heti

Against All Odds by Lauren Manning (Scene Study)

Emotional Agility by Susan David

The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson

Personal Failure Prompt Analysis

Football Failure by Anonymous

The Devil Inside by Anonymous

Nineteen Eighty-Four Excerpt for Reader Response Sample Entries

If You Don't Want to Go to School by Anonymous

Sample Reader Response Journal Entries

I've included a link in this post to the Sample Reader Response Journal Entries that I wrote out in class based on the excerpt from Ready Player One.  Remember, for every month, you MUST:

1) have 10 half-page (at least) entries about the Independent Choice Book(s) you are currently reading

2) select 2 out of 10 entries for me to grade more closely