Writing a personal statement Mr. Verlin South Philadelphia High School September 24 and 29, 2014 Writing a personal statement

Preliminaries (9/24) Rank the following terms in increasing order of specificity listing the broadest term first: Thesis Statement School Stuff Paragraph Sentence English Class Essay

Preliminaries (9/25) List the first 4 outline headings we used for our personal statement outline in class yesterday.

Objectives: The students will be able to differentiate between broader and narrower forms of detail. The students will be able to use outlining to write a personal statement with controlled focus: Who I Was Who I Am Who I Will Be Be able to write a draft of a personal statement from the outline created in the previous lesson.

Focus Lesson: Personal Stat… Pre-write: outline with >= 4 levels of detail Who I was Who I am Who I will become Draft: transforming outlines into drafts Sentences Paragraphs

Homework: Second Draft Complete a second draft of the personal statement by October 8.