Work Silently: 4 Paragraph Essay

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Work Silently 4 Paragraph Essay

• Paragraph 1 Briefly introduce yourself. Tell me
  what kind of student you are. What is your
  favorite subject? Who was your teacher for this
  class the first time you took it?
• Paragraph 2 Explain why you failed English 3C.
  What caused you to fail this class the first time
  you tried it? Explain your response in detail.
  Describe your personal and academic habits that
  led to failing the class.
• Paragraph 3 How do you plan on changing your
  personal and academic habits to make sure that
  you pass this class? What are you going to do
  differently? Give concrete examples.
• Paragraph 4 What will happen if you do change
  your personal and academic habits that caused you
  to fail this class in the past? What will happen
  if you do not change your personal and academic
  habits that caused you to fail? Do you think you
  will succeed and pass this class?

Take your time with this essay. I want to see
your best work. You have until 840 to complete
it. If you finish early, you must begin reading
silently. Those talking/disrupting class in any
way will have to leave with a referral (2
referrals gone from class).
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Positives

• Lots of optimism/high hopes for doing well in
  this class.
• Many students used words like determined and
  dedicated when writing about applying
  themselves and passing this class.
• Recognition that you can change negative habits
  to make sure you pass.

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Negative Habits

• Lazy
• Ditching
• Apathetic
• Victim

Mass acknowledgement you can overcome these
negative habits and succeed.
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Taking into account the 19 absences yesterday
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Choices

• Stay in your category and fail again.
• Change your habits--get out of the cycle of
  failure--get back on track to graduation--move on
  with your life!

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Choices

• Many of you have already made your choice.
• Next comes the important part acting on the
  positive choices you made in your essays. Do what
  you know you need to do to succeed.
• You can do it.

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Get On Track To Graduation

• The point of going to Summer School is for you to
  get back on track to graduating high school.
• Failing classes is a gateway to becoming a high
  school dropout.
• Dont just attend high school--use your right
  to a free education to make a better life for
  yourself.

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A better life?

• My (cousin, brother, sister, uncle, dad, mom,
  friend) didnt finish high school and they are
  doing fine.
• Even if I dont finish high school, Ill be
  fine.
• Maybe people say things like this all the time.

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Ashley LaMantia
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Marisol Nunez
Marisol gave up her education to support her
familys education in Mexico. After she dropped
out of school herself, she values education so
greatly that as a gesture of love she is
sacrificing her success so that her family will
get an education. How much more could she
support her family of she had an education and a
better job?
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Alecia Brown
The good thing about your education is that no
matter how old you are you can continue your
education. But why would you want to wait? Why
wait when you know that more education leads to
more money?
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The Value of an Education

• Does more education lead to more money?
• Over a lifetime, yes.

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The Value of an Education

• Lets say you spend 40 years of your life
  working.
• Lets also say you work about 40 hours per week.
• There are 52 weeks in a year--so you work 2,080
  hours per year.
• And since you work for 40 years, youre working
  83,200 hours in your lifetime.

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Getting Paid for Going To School

• Would you try harder at school if you were paid
  to?
• Would you go to school every day if you were paid
  to?

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Getting Paid for Going To School

• Based on the chart I showed you earlier, every
  day you spend in school you increase your
  lifetime earnings by 600 to 1,200.
• People with higher education earn more money.
• In a very real way, you are getting paid to go to
  school.

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Start Today

• Succeed finish this class strong.
• Take the skills you learn in this class and
  others to help you succeed in other classes.
• Aim high dont strive only to finish this class,
  strive for graduation and college and/or
  professional training after graduation.
• A better life for you.
• High paying jobs in the near future have to be
  taken by someone, why not you?

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Where do you want to be in 5 years 10 years?

• The decisions you make now will affect the rest
  of your life.
• Make the decision to take your education
  seriously.
• Use your free education to develop yourself into
  an attractive asset to future employers.
• Think in terms of career rather than job.

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Sources

• Cantu, Rene. What is the value of education?
  Labor Market Information Department of the Texas
  Workforce Commission. December 2003. ltgt
• http//www.detnews.com/2005/specialreport/0505/30/
  A01-196693.htm