What’s Next? Thinking About Life After High School
ERWC Unit 1.
Mr. Mahoney, Rio Americano High School
Module Description
For the last few years of your life, high school has made several demands on your time and energy. Many people—teachers, family, school figures, and others—have worked hard preparing you for life after high school; and while you may or may not have devoted as much time and attention as you would like to life after high school, the fact is that this stage of your life is drawing to a close and you are confronted with the age old question: What’s next for me?
Slide presentation of What's Next ERWC unit
Student version of ERWC Unit
Reading Selections for this Module
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"Want to get into College? Learn to Fail"
“Hidden Intellectualism"
“10 Rules for Going to College When Nobody Really Expected You To"
"Not Going to College is a Viable Option”
"Why Go to College?”
“The 10 Most Common Excuses for Not Going to College and Why They’re All Wrong.”
“FAQ Guide for College or Work.”
“Web Site Resources”
Student Objectives
Students will be able to:
• Become familiar with college and career expectations for reading independently
• Become familiar with the intellectual habits necessary for success in college and careers,
including curiosity, openness, engagement, creativity, persistence, flexibility, responsibility, and
meta cognition
• Organize information from online research and textual study for use in developing writing
• Generate questions about ideas, arguments, analyses, perspectives, or the rhetorical presentation
of text for the purpose of making an informed response to what others say
• Apply the rhetorical framework to reading and writing situations
• Manage information gathered through reading in preparation for writing
• Develop academic vocabulary through reading and writing
• Understand writing as a situated process of decision-making grounded in rhetorical contexts
• Understand writing as a response to an audience, situation, or intention
• Apply writing as the development of thought rather than the representation or ornamentation of
thought
• Write prose that is coherent, clear, and organized
• Write sentences that demonstrate variety
Entries:
8/19: 2: College decisions
8/20: 3: Key concepts of your personality
8/20: 4: Ranking and discussing. Homework: Discuss with three people you trust
8/20: 7: Surveying Perez
8/21: 8: Responding to Perez
8/21: 9: Hidden intellectualism
8/22: 11: Respond to hidden intellectualism
8/23 12: respond to HIdden Intellectualism
8/26: 13: Are You ready for college
8/27: 16A: What do you need to do?
8/29: 15: Costco essay: Read and answer questions
8/29 15A: Read NYT college essay
9/2: 17: Write page on background
9/3: Discuss UC Personal insight questions
9/4 Assign UC personal insight question
9/8: COmmon app essay is due
ERWC Unit 1.
Mr. Mahoney, Rio Americano High School
Module Description
For the last few years of your life, high school has made several demands on your time and energy. Many people—teachers, family, school figures, and others—have worked hard preparing you for life after high school; and while you may or may not have devoted as much time and attention as you would like to life after high school, the fact is that this stage of your life is drawing to a close and you are confronted with the age old question: What’s next for me?
Slide presentation of What's Next ERWC unit
Student version of ERWC Unit
Reading Selections for this Module
Click here to see the readings
"Want to get into College? Learn to Fail"
“Hidden Intellectualism"
“10 Rules for Going to College When Nobody Really Expected You To"
"Not Going to College is a Viable Option”
"Why Go to College?”
“The 10 Most Common Excuses for Not Going to College and Why They’re All Wrong.”
“FAQ Guide for College or Work.”
“Web Site Resources”
Student Objectives
Students will be able to:
• Become familiar with college and career expectations for reading independently
• Become familiar with the intellectual habits necessary for success in college and careers,
including curiosity, openness, engagement, creativity, persistence, flexibility, responsibility, and
meta cognition
• Organize information from online research and textual study for use in developing writing
• Generate questions about ideas, arguments, analyses, perspectives, or the rhetorical presentation
of text for the purpose of making an informed response to what others say
• Apply the rhetorical framework to reading and writing situations
• Manage information gathered through reading in preparation for writing
• Develop academic vocabulary through reading and writing
• Understand writing as a situated process of decision-making grounded in rhetorical contexts
• Understand writing as a response to an audience, situation, or intention
• Apply writing as the development of thought rather than the representation or ornamentation of
thought
• Write prose that is coherent, clear, and organized
• Write sentences that demonstrate variety
Entries:
8/19: 2: College decisions
8/20: 3: Key concepts of your personality
8/20: 4: Ranking and discussing. Homework: Discuss with three people you trust
8/20: 7: Surveying Perez
8/21: 8: Responding to Perez
8/21: 9: Hidden intellectualism
8/22: 11: Respond to hidden intellectualism
8/23 12: respond to HIdden Intellectualism
8/26: 13: Are You ready for college
8/27: 16A: What do you need to do?
8/29: 15: Costco essay: Read and answer questions
8/29 15A: Read NYT college essay
9/2: 17: Write page on background
9/3: Discuss UC Personal insight questions
9/4 Assign UC personal insight question
9/8: COmmon app essay is due