E7TP 1999
Instructor: Ms. Wu
Assignments & Projects of the 1999 Fall Term for All Tech-Prep Students 
Project 1(Create a College Application Home Page)
1. a. Do research in the Internet to find a college you might be interested in attending in the near future. Browes the college site to get the necessary information. Find the essay questions.
Suggested Web Sites: www. petersons.com
                                   www.collegeboard.com(type in"college essay questions" and search.)
b. Write a report about your experience of doing college-research on-line. Compare three college admission requirements and list the advantages and disadvantages of each college.(The report could be written in the form of a persuasive or expository essay)
c. List at least three best (in your opinion)college links on your web site with annotations.

2. To start writing your college essay, go to the site that gives you all the info you need to know to write a college essay. 


3. Share your first draft of the essay with your journal buddy,and help each other revise the essay. You may also go the '98 Tech-Prep web site to read some of my former Tech-Prep students' college essays. 


4. After you finish the final draft of your college essay, publish the essay onto your web site. We will share our writing by visiting each other's web site.

Project 2
1. In order to complete your book reports, you need to do research in the Internet to find two books of the appropriate level and content written by a contemporary writer who is still alive.Read the books and write a critical essay as your comments. Send your comments to the writer through e-mail. If you get feed-back, we'd like you to share it with us by publishing it onto your web site. Try to continue the e-conversation with the writer and form a mentor-mentee relationship. When you are comfortable with asking more questions and getting to know the writer better, use e-mail interview to write a report about the writer.
2. Here are some web sites you may go to to find such a writer.
            www.writers.com
            www.writers.net
            Austin Axis
            www.wga.org(Go to RESEARCH Link->SCREEWRITER SITES)
Project  3: To establish a penpal relationship with a senior high school student from another school
 Go to different school sites and find a e-mail buddy. Visit Web66 International School Web Sites
 

Project 4 Career Search

1. New York Times(Click open Career Path)
2. Career Sites (Click Job-Related Web Sites)

Project 5
1. SAT Prep (Click SAT-Prep)
2. Practice"SAT question of the day"