Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Today in class

Journal prompt #22:

You've just written a 300 page autobio. Send us page 217 College essay prompt, UPENN

1 page.

We continued to talk about strategies in picking topics and how to answer them. For this one, I suggested that you start in the middle of a story, without explaining the beginning. You can do a similar twist at the end. This makes it 10 times more interesting.

Remember- they want to see that you have the ability to write well, and to learn a bit about you and how you think. This is a great prompt that allows for all of this.

We finished act 2 and talked about the climax at the start of Act 3.

We moved the class outside and acted out the Banquo murder scene. I posted a video bellow from B Block:

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