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Essay Links

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Essay Guidelines and Peer Review Sheets:

Analytical Essay Powerpoint

* peer review

* Analysis Essay Writing Prompts

Autobiographical

*questions for brainstorming

* peer review

Cause and Effect

* peer review

Cause and Effect Essay

Compare/Contrast Essays

Evaluation

Evaluating and Judging Essay

Explaining Concepts

peer review

Observation

peer review
Jack London writes about the San Francisco Earthquake
student essay about metal bands in SFGate

Position RCWW

Online Essay Prompt Assignments

- Drones

* writing a problem solution essay

* problem solving Worksheet

* peer review

* problem solution essay example

Reflective

Summary Response

* outline template

* "The San Francisco Earthquake" by Jack London

Synthesizing Sources Essay - information and guidelines

- how to write a synthesis essay

- essay example text only

- powerpoint about synthesis essays

- peer review questions

Reflective Language and Power Essay

Reflective Essay Peer Review Guidelines

Position Essay

Position Essay Peer Review Guidelines

Visual Analysis

* visual analysis guidelines

* peer review

* peer review visual presentation rubric

Essay Links:

Technology:

"Here,Tweeting is a Classroom Requirement" from the Wall Street Journal

Writing:

Stephen King: "The Writing Life"-PDF

"How Texas Teaches History" NYT - how word choice informs meaning

Observation/Evaluation:

Joanna Zelman: "The Dark Side of Traveling.."

Kelly Maclean: "Surviving Whole Foods"

Sam Lefebvre: Dark Progress: Local Label Flenser is Helping Black Metal Evolve

Martin Luther King:

Michael Pollan:

"Unhappy Meals" from the New York Times
'In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto'
Audio link: NPR Interview with Pollan

David Sedaris: "Me Talk Pretty One Day"

Arguments: Susan Jacoby: "The Dumbing of America" and video of someone reading

Larissa MacFarquhar: "Who Cares if Johnny Can't Read?"

Reading Critically, Writing Well - 9th edition - online readings:

Brian Cable: "The Last Stop"

Reading Critically, Writing Well readings - 10th edition:

"Online Education" - David Brooks

"Nature Follows a Path of Pixels into Children's Hearts" -Carol Kaesuk Yoon

"Salt We Misjudged You" - Jane Carter

"Taking Responsibility for Death" - Susan Jacoby

"The College Graduate as Collateral" Luigi Singales

"The Flight from Conversation" - NY Times - about texting

"The Trust Molecule" - Bob Zac

"Virtuous Arguments" - John Duffy

"Replacement Therapy" - Rob Walker - technology

"Father Shops Best" - Dan Zevon

"In Too Deep" - Tom Ruprecht

"Shyness - An Evolutionary Tactic" - Susan Cain

"Taxing Sugared Beverages" - Kelly Brownell and Thomas Friedman

"Why Men Fail" - David Brooks

"Why Privacy Matters" - Daniel Solove

"Why Zombies, Robots, and Clowns Freak Us Out" - Elizabeth Landau

Exploring Language Articles:

Language Perspective Essay articles:

"Homemade Education" - Malcolm X.
"A Word for Everything" - Helen Keller - video
"Coming Into Language" - Jimmy Santiago Baca - video

What does language do for Baca?
In paragraph 18, Baca says, “In prison, the abscess had been lanced.” What is he referring to?
How does Baca feel about education at the beginning of the story? Does this change?
What does Baca mean when he says, “My words did not come from books or textual formulas, but from a deep faith in the voice of my heart?”
When Baca says, “The word was my ember and the forest was my life.” What does he mean?
Would the first paragraph be as effective if Baca had told us his age at the beginning of the paragraph instead of at the end? Why do you think he did that?
In your opinion, what does the last paragraph mean?