Warm Up #5 What did you want to be when you

“grew up” if someone were to ask your 5 year old self? What do you want to be when you “grow up” now? Have you changed your mind? Why or why not?

Senior Project: Career Choice & EPT Practice EssaysDay 1

Writing 1.0 Writing Strategies Students write coherent and focused texts that convey a well-defined perspective and tightly reasoned argument. The writing demonstrates students' awareness of the audience and purpose and progression through the stages of the writing process. Organization and Focus 1.1 Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of discourse (e.g., purpose, speaker, audience, form) when completing narrative, expository, persuasive, or descriptive writing assignments. 1.2 Use point of view, characterization, style (e.g., use of irony), and related elements for specific rhetorical and aesthetic purposes.1.3 Structure ideas and arguments in a sustained, persuasive, and sophisticated way and support them with precise and relevant examples. 1.4 Enhance meaning by employing rhetorical devices, including the extended use of parallelism, repetition, and analogy; the incorporation of visual aids (e.g., graphs, tables, pictures); and the issuance of a call for action.1.5 Use language in natural, fresh, and vivid ways to establish a specific tone. Evaluation and Revision 1.9 Revise text to highlight the individual voice, improve sentence variety and style, and enhance subtlety of meaning and tone in ways that are consistent with the purpose, audience, and genre. 2.3 Write reflective compositions: a. Explore the significance of personal experiences, events, conditions, or concerns by using rhetorical strategies (e.g., narration, description, exposition, persuasion).b. Draw comparisons between specific incidents and broader themes that illustrate the writer's important beliefs or generalizations about life. c. Maintain a balance in describing individual incidents and relate those incidents to more general and abstract ideas.

• Students will be able to…– Identify, reflect on,

and discuss their personality test results for their senior project

– Edit and revise their writing to bring it closer to a graduating senior and/or college level

Personality/Career test Now, you will take a test that will match your

personality with complementing careers. When you take the test you should choose your answers honestly and quickly. Go with your first reaction. When you score your answer sheet you will get a code. Match the code with the correct handout to get your results.

Save your results!!! You will need them for you senior project!

After you get your results you will write a reflection. This is also a piece that belongs in your senior project so take it seriously, do your best, and don’t lose it!

Senior Project Reflection Your objective is to determine, according to your personality type,

what career would best suit your personality type, your interests, and viewpoints. Your goal is to write a 2-3 page paper explaining your personality type and what careers would be best for you. (See sample on next slide)

 1. Complete the survey.2. Read through the findings and find out what career is best for you.

You DO NOT have to do your project on what the survey says would be good for you!

3. Construct a personal narrative essay explaining your experience and your findings. Remember 2-3 pages are required.

4. Please write your paper in MLA format, including heading and page numbers.

5. Your final copy is due in your senior project

Monica Marie Smith Ms. Johnson Language Arts IV April 17, 2011

(NOTE: This paper should be 2-3 pages long- this is just a part of a sample) Reflection: Personality Test

I finished this test with an insight into my own head. I learned some things about me that I did not know. I also was reassured about things I already knew.

As I began to read the results I found that I am personality type INFJ. People like me are usually imaginative, creative, and sensitive, (which in my opinion describes me very well). I am also a responsible and respectful person, wanting to get to know people and places before I jump into a situation.

I realized some of the strengths and weaknesses were true. The results say that I am a good listener. I have always been one to absorb others’ stories. The test also says that I like developing and following a well-laid out plan. This is true. I like to plan out what I am going to get accomplished, and then set out to do it. Although I do not always get to complete these goals, I try to finish as many as possible. One of the main weaknesses that are listed is I do not communicate well. I know that his statement is very true. If I were to have a quote in the yearbook it would be “I don’t know,” since I never know what to say.

I laughed when I read that for a career to be satisfying to me it should be one that will be done in an environment that is free of tension and conflict. Where is there a place that is free of tension and conflict? I also realized that responsibility comes somewhat natural to me, unless it is cleaning my room. By letting me have control over situations and taking responsibility for my own actions, it will smooth things over a lot more than if someone insisted on taking over for me. I am not a very hard person to get along with, unless you get on to my bad side. The best way to work with me is to be patient. I do not always know what I want when I want it, but eventually it will come. Encouraging me to brainstorm and supporting my ideas helps me to feel that I am actually needed for something. Respect is a key part in getting along with me. If you do not respect me, then I am not going to respect you. So, if you treat me like am lower than you, you will receive that same amount of respect back.

EPT WritingDirections: You will have 45 minutes to plan and write an essay on the topic

assigned below. Before you begin writing, read the passage carefully and plan what you will say. Your essay should be as well organized and as carefully written as you can make it.

In a recent editorial essay, a working mother of four laments being made to feel guilty for not "being there" every minute for her children. She notes, "The school nurse has taken me to task for not being immediately accessible, and my kids--who live in a world where instant gratification has become the norm--complain about my intermittent unreachability. To which I say, hey, deal with it. I'm not cavalier about my mothering responsibilities.... I'm an involved parent. We modern moms and dads are not only expected to make sure our kids are perfectly nourished, endlessly enriched, and absolutely safe at all times: now, with cell phones and pagers, we are also supposed to be instantly reachable and immediately responsive.... We cannot and should not orchestrate every moment in our children's lives for them--partly because the effort turns out to be futile, but more importantly because it prevents our kids from learning skills they need to succeed in the real world. There are times they need to ad lib. There are times they need to wait. There are even times they need to turn to someone else."

Explain the author's argument & discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with her views. Support your position by referring to the passage and by providing reasons and examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.

Context/background

Prompt/writing directions

Your EssayI will pass your essay back so you can see your score, but I will need to collect it back from you before you leave. We will work with these more next class.

Have a rough draft personality reflection next class