In-class work for Monday, September 25

1.     Choose the three essays among these seven that seem most like argument essays to you, the ones that seem to make a debatable point. For those three essays, identify a sentence that you think is the best candidate for a thesis statement in those three essays.

2.     Imagine that your group is the admissions committee for an elite graduate program for college administrators seeking an advanced certificate in Social and Emotional Learning. Excellent writing skills are one of the criteria for admission. Other qualities the committee is looking for are strong leadership abilities, good critical thinking skills, and emotional intelligence.

You have a group of seven finalists, all of whom have been deemed equal in every respect (graduate school transcripts, publications, service to their universities, etc.) and now you must choose which two candidates to admit based on the writing samples you have before you.

If you have time left over, revise the following sentence in your notebook:    

We are taught not to panic, never to run, when lost, but the experience itself is so shattering, so robbing of rationality and all teaching, that every time before I'd been lost, panic and running ensued. 

Revise the last section of the sentence above, making it as clear and concise as you can.