Personal Essays
1.
Write a personal account of your favourite memories of Christmas and the New Year
- Specific family traditions – board games / Boxing day meeting with family / to wrap or not to
wrap / carrots for Rudolph – cookies and milk for Santa / 6 January –Feast of the Kings / New Year – go to grandmother’s / fireworks / some celebration / parties / TV with family
2.
Write a personal account of the challenges of making and keeping friends
- Chronological approach – start in infants / 6th class / start and end of 2nd level / hopes and fears for 3rd level; changes in reasons for being friends – sitting at same table / live nearby / have same interests / know the same people / doing the same course
- Difficulties of keeping friends – reasons you might fall out with friends - taking purple crayon
/ betrayal / distance
- Facebook / Skype
3.
Write a personal account of your idea of paradise
o
Wealthy / not bothered
about money
o
Location– Ireland /
abroad / what area
o
Time of year – Summer /
winter – activities
o
‘A day in the life of
me living in paradise’ – what happens
o
People– personal /
celebrities / family
1.
Write a personal account of your favourite memories of Christmas and the New Year
- Specific family traditions – board games / Boxing day meeting with family / to wrap or not to
wrap / carrots for Rudolph – cookies and milk for Santa / 6 January –Feast of the Kings / New Year – go to grandmother’s / fireworks / some celebration / parties / TV with family
2.
Write a personal account of the challenges of making and keeping friends
- Chronological approach – start in infants / 6th class / start and end of 2nd level / hopes and fears for 3rd level; changes in reasons for being friends – sitting at same table / live nearby / have same interests / know the same people / doing the same course
- Difficulties of keeping friends – reasons you might fall out with friends - taking purple crayon
/ betrayal / distance
- Facebook / Skype
3.
Write a personal account of your idea of paradise
o
Wealthy / not bothered
about money
o
Location– Ireland /
abroad / what area
o
Time of year – Summer /
winter – activities
o
‘A day in the life of
me living in paradise’ – what happens
o
People– personal /
celebrities / family