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For Thursday write a news story about something you’ve experienced recently in a class, sport, or activity at Judge .  This typed story should be approximately 300  words long.

This year the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business added a new twist to their application process. In addition to essays they asked applicants to describe themselves through images.

In this portion of the application, we invite you tell us about yourself using a non-traditional application format – a PowerPoint presentation. In four slides or less, please provide readers with content that captures who you are.

Full-Time MBA: Essay Questions and Slide Presentation- University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

Your assignment is to capture who you are in four photographs. The images must all be your own. They could be photos of important things in your life, photo illustrations using digital tools (like Photoshop, Illustrator, Splashup, VoiceThread, etc), just not a picture of you. Upload the finished product to your blog on Youth Voices. The four photos are due Friday, February 1.

This is a variation on the Four-Slide Sales Pitch by Dan Meyer. You can read more about that here.

For Monday January 28, read chapters 7 & 8 in Writing with Style, and bring a copy of Hamlet to class.

For Friday, bring a biography with you to class.  Choose a person you find interesting.  Look on your bookshelves at home, or in the biography section of our school library or the public library.

1. Open a new Google Doc
2. Paste the criteria of an opinion/editorial in it
3. Your first sentence is a summary of your research.
4. Write the best piece of persuasion you can. No more than 300 words.
5. Post a new entry (with at least one snippet) and tag your entry with keywords.

Read through your alumni story one more time and take out any comments from me.  This should be one of the best examples of your writing from this semester.  Then print a clean draft and bring it with you to your final exam.

For Friday, write a draft of your essay and share the Google Doc with me.  You should use all the evidence/snippets for your side of the argument, but for the other side of the argument you don’t need to go into as much detail.  Also remember to include a bibliography.

For Friday, read chapter 6: Diction. For Monday, read chapter 7: readability. As you read, think about which advice makes sense, but also think about the advice that you don’t agree with … the advice you’re not going to take.

Further resources on active and passive verbs here.

For Thursday, in your Google Document include three sources that support your position on your topic and three sources against your position.

For Thursday, create your own essay rubric based on the advice from Chapters 3-5 in Writing with Style.  Make sure you have at least three items for each: openers, middles, closers.