PERSONAL ESSAY PREP Prompt #1 If you could ensure that your children would never have/or have one experience that you have had, what would it be? Prompt #2 If you could find one thing, besides money, in your family attic, what would you want to discover? Prompt #3 If you had to go tonight to be tattooed, where on your body would you have it done (this IS a Catholic school) and what image would you select? Prompt #4 If you could change one thing about Pacelli or your high school experience, what would it be and why? Prompt #5 A man "under the influence" sits next to you in the hamburger tent at Panacea. He thinks you are his buddy and starts confessing "the truth." Write a story revealing the truth. Prompt #6 Write a story from the point of view of a spoon or a strand of hair. Prompt #7 Try to put all of the following words in a story: plastic bottle, hockey puck, dirty handkerchief, crumpled note, hinged door. Prompt #8 Amy Tidwell and Jason Engler meet on an airplane. Write a story in which one of them becomes resigned to his or her fate. STUDENT SAMPLES (very rough drafts)
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PERSONAL ESSAY PREP
Prompt #1
If you could ensure that your children would never have/or have one experience that you have had, what would it be?
Prompt #2
If you could find one thing, besides money, in your family attic, what would you want to discover?
Prompt #3
If you had to go tonight to be tattooed, where on your body would you have it done (this IS a Catholic school) and what image would you select?
Prompt #4
If you could change one thing about Pacelli or your high school experience, what would it be and why?
Prompt #5
A man "under the influence" sits next to you in the hamburger tent at Panacea. He thinks you are his buddy and starts confessing "the truth." Write a story revealing the truth.
Prompt #6
Write a story from the point of view of a spoon or a strand of hair.
Prompt #7
Try to put all of the following words in a story: plastic bottle, hockey puck, dirty handkerchief, crumpled note, hinged door.
Prompt #8
Amy Tidwell and Jason Engler meet on an airplane. Write a story in which one of them becomes resigned to his or her fate.
STUDENT SAMPLES (very rough drafts)