Weekly+Essay

=Weekly Essay (6th & 7th Periods) =

A weekly essay is due every Friday for the remainder of the first rating period. This will account for the majority of your homework points (15% of your grade).

 Answer the following questions in your essay.
 * ~ ===Essay === ||~ ===Topic/Prompt === ||~ ===Due Date === ||
 * = #1 || Write about your __career goals__. **5 paragraphs.**
 * What career are you interested in?
 * Why are you interested in that career?
 * What educational/experience requirements are there for this career?
 * How will you achieve this goal?

 If you used any information from the internet, please include __where__ you got the information. ||  Friday, September 17, 2009 ||
 * = #2 || What are the advantages and disadvantages of pursuing a college education?
 * Make sure to name the advantages and disadvantages
 * Support your arguments with facts, details and examples
 * You may have to do some research to answer this question.

If you use information you found on a website, please include the name of the website in your essay. ||  Friday, September 24, 2009 ||
 * = #3 || What are the qualities of a good team?
 * What qualities does each individual person on a team need to have?
 * How do people on a good team interact with each other?
 * What are the outcomes when a team is good? __Explain in detail and use examples__.

 If you use information you found on a website, please include the name of the website in your essay. || Friday, October 1, 2009 ||
 * = #4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How can we improve William Allen High School?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What would an improved high school be like?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How could students improve this school?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How could teachers improve the school?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How could administrators (principals) improve the school?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Avoid making generalizations that you can't support with facts and examples. You will lose significant points if you do not support your assertions with details and examples.** || <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Friday, October 8, 2009 || Some people say you should be content with what you have and accept who you are. But it is possible that too much self-acceptance can turn into self-satisfied lack of ambition. People should always strive to improve themselves and to have more in their lives—friends, things, opportunities. After all, where would we be if great people, both in history and in our own time, did not try to have more and to improve themselves?
 * = #5 || ===Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.===
 * Is it best for people to accept who they are and what they have, or should people always strive to better themselves?
 * Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue.
 * Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. || <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Friday, October 15, 2009 ||
 * = #6 || **What are your strengths?**

Take time to reflect about yourself; ask yourself questions:
 * What are you good at?
 * How do you use these skills to help you succeed?
 * How can these skills help you succeed in the future?]

Think of examples of when you were successful because of a skill or ability that you have.
 * Use at least two of these examples in your essay.

Winning does not require people to be against someone else; people can reach their goals through cooperation just as well as they can through competition. Winning is not always the result of selfish individualism. People achieve happiness by cooperating with others to increase the happiness of all, rather than by winning at others' expense. Ours is not a world in which the price of one person's happiness is someone else's unhappiness.
 * In the conclusion, consider how you will use your strengths in school and in your future.** || <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Friday, October 22, 2009 ||
 * = #7 || **Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.**


 * __Assignment__:**
 * When some people win, must others lose, or are there situations in which everyone wins?
 * Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue.
 * Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. || <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Friday, October 29, 2009 ||