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Ethan Lee's Movie Trailer: Tangled Threads                                            Film Script for Tangled Threads
​Justin Orea's Movie Trailer: The Republic of East LA                              Film Script for The Republic of East LA
Daniela Jimenez Murguia's Movie Trailer: Alice's Secret                        Film Script of Alice's Secret
​James Mei's Movie Trailer: Run                                                                  
Alexia Mckinney Strong's Movie Trailer: The Cartel                               Film Script for The Cartel
Ashley Thao' s Movie Trailer: Want to Go Private?                                  Film Script for Want to Go Private?
Kevin Her's Movie Trailer: One Punch Man Vs. Dragon Ball Z
Tuger Her's Movie Trailer: The Deep Shooter                                         Film Script for The Deep Shooter
Mr. J's Movie Trailer: Mr. J's Rules
Angel Muneton Ramirez's Movie Trailer: The Cartel
Kevohn Carter's Movie Trailer: Youth is the Truth                                  Film Script for Youth is the Truth

This is a Veronica Xiong's Movie Poster and Movie Trailer for the book The Living.  She is a 10 grade English student, and this was her Genre Project

  “I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me.”     --Peter Habeler
 
Peter Habeler seems to be saying  that Everest is a living and breathing thing that people want to dominate.  However, he clearly states that no one conquers Everest; we just survive it.  I see the Everest unit as being a metaphor for life.  No one conquers life, it merely tolerates us.  We study Everest because we are interested in trying to understand how to live life.  Learning about Everest helps us to understand how to live a more fulfilled life.  Studying how people go about tackling a huge challenge has been the goal since the beginning of the year.  The goal in this essay is to make clear how Everest connects to your life.  Have fun with the challenge!  What is your mountain?  Enjoy the climb.  Climb on!

Essay Prompt:  What is your mountain?  Compare climbing Everest to what you are trying to accomplish in life.

Type your essay in google docs and post it in the comments section of this post.  I will grade it here.  Please reply to two essays after you post your essay.  Strong comments look like . . .

_____reminds me of _____, because . . .
I'm predicting . . . 
I was wondering . . . ? (or another question frame)
I see . . .
___________ means _________, because . . 
I agree/disagree with _________, because . . .    
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I was getting ice cream at Gunthers a couple of days ago, and while I was waiting, I picked up the Sac News and Review.  The issue was the 2017 winners of SN&R's 2017 College Essay Contest.  I read them. First, I thought these are good.  Second, I thought my students could do this.  As I read on, I found out that the winner won two thousand dollars, second place won a thousand dollars, and third won five hundred dollars.  I  was also surprised to see that the students looked like my students.  In other words, the winners were diverse.  I did some more research and found that the contest is a personal essay used to get into college.  I was a little bummed to find out that only seniors can enter, so my nines and tens are out.  But I have juniors as well.  They could write a personal essay used to turn into colleges next year and enter this contest.  Sounds like an awesome final, huh?  Welcome to your final juniors!  These will be your mentor texts.  They will make great examples.  For an explanation of the essay contest, click here.

Here are some of the prompts from the explanation:
 
"While questions vary from college to college, there are some common ones:
Who are you?
How did you become who you are today?
What are your key experiences, beliefs and interests?
Tell us about a failure. What did you learn from that experience?
Have your core beliefs ever been challenged? What happened?
And then, a wide variety of wacko questions, such as, “What do you expect to find over the rainbow?”
I thought it would be pretty hard to answer any of these questions.
But I thought of other questions that may not be of interest to the college admission officers, but should be of interest to anyone who is trying to figure out a life plan.
My questions include:
What do you do with your days?
Are your efforts making the world a better or a worse place?
What is actually important to you? Family, friends, status, wealth or …?
Should you change what you are doing?
If so, what stands in your way?
I am not 18. It has been 47 years since I stopped caring about college admissions officers. But I still care about these important questions. And the answers."

This year, only the 9th graders presented their homies.  We didn't have time in the 10th grade; plus, I've found that because of the SLCs, they pretty much all know each other already.  Before the students present, they interview their partner, and I teach presenting skills: eye contact, don't speak to just the teacher but to the whole classroom, etc.  These are speaking skills that we will practice all year and that will push students out of their comfort zones.  Most 9ers are shy and don't want to be filmed presenting, but the Jason team accepted the challenge.  How'd they do?  You can watch and compare them to last years presentations by clicking here