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Personal Statements at Wallenberg High School
(In-Schools Program)
Dear Tutors:
Welcome, and thank you in advance for your time and
effort. For this project, you will be visiting Wallenberg High School. The senior class you
will be working with is small and is a motivated, enthusiastic advanced
placement literature class. We will be working on the college personal
statement using the UC Berkeley guidelines.We will be dividing the students into small
groups, which will each have a tutor. At the point in
which you visit our class, the students will have completed at least
one of the two prompts and will have done
peer-editing on each.I would ask that each of you meet with your
groups, having each student read their essay(s) outloud. Then, if you
could work individually with each student in your group, giving
appropriate feedback/ helping with glaring errors or awkward syntax
and giving your overall impression of each essay. Feel free to mark up
their papers! While you are doing this, the other students in your
group will be working with each other, continuing their peer editing
and working on second drafts. This process has worked very well in the
past, and is invaluable for the students. I am especially excited by
this wonderful group of students.
Thank again,
Guilan Sheykhzadeh
Grade: 12
Address:
40 Vega Street
San Francisco, CA 94115