Weekly Essay Topics Choose an issue with your home town and write a persuasive essay attempting to convince the city council to change that issue. Due Tuesday March 21st.
Choose any novel you have ever read (YA or Literary Fiction) and explain how it taught you something about life. Be critical in your selection and think about how the novel has actually either changed a viewpoint you hold, or perhaps explained something in a way that made you understand it better. Explain a particular adjective/particular adjectives you could use to describe yourself. You will be using personal experiences for this essay, but make sure you have examples to support your choices.
Academically speaking, argue for the benefits or negative aspects of receiving rewards regardless of performance. This can take the place of participation trophies/brackets, points for assignments not completed, or base salaries regardless of hours worked. Due Friday.
Discuss in a well composed essay, the need for society to refocus holidays away from consumerism. Use examples and try to figure out how holidays impact the average individual/family. You may also want to discuss problems that could be related to a focus on consumerism as well as the positive contributions of holidays.
Should schools specialize education before high school so that high school students only take courses that would apply to a future planned for them? For example: People who want to be doctors should only take medical related courses in high school. Use SPECIFIC EXAMPLES (*HINT* Look at what other countries are doing in their educational systems). DO NOT USE PERSONAL PRONOUNS - Your opinion should come across through the facts that you present. Your experience doesn't count as an example.
Role Model Essay Due 3:15 on Friday. Choose one person who is your role model, and in a 5 paragraph essay explain why they are make a good role model for anyone. DO NOT USE PERSONAL PRONOUNS!
Penny Essay shared in drive.
In some countries, a person's integrity/personal decisions are not a part of a group's decision making process at all - regarding hiring, college admission etc. These decisions are based on merit and ability alone. What role should character/integrity play in the hiring processes of the world today?
Explain in your essay the various ways that the story of Beowulf mimics the narrative of Jesus's life. Then explain why those similarities likely existed.
Many parents give children a weekly or monthly allowance regardless of their behavior because they believe an allowance teaches children to be financially responsible. Other parents only give children an allowance as a reward for completing chores or when they have behaved properly. Explain what you think parents should do and why. Use evidence or logical reasoning to support your claim.