College Scholarship Essay - College Readiness

Get this college readiness lesson to teach your high school students how to write a scholarship essay. This NO-PREP Google Slides presentation offers tips for writing a scholarship essay that can be used for multiple scholarship applications and applied to writing a college application essay or personal statement.

⭐️ WHAT'S INCLUDED (a complete lesson that uses the 5E Learning Cycle!):

• Engage: Question to hook students.
• Explore: Question to activate prior knowledge and the chance to ask questions before getting into the lesson.
• Explain: In this lesson, students learn answers to the following questions:

➡ Where do I find scholarships?

➡ What are organizations and colleges looking for in a scholarship essay?

➡ How do I write a scholarship essay that I can use with several applications?

➡ How do I write a scholarship essay that stands out?

• Elaborate/Extend: The extension part of the lesson asks students to find scholarships to apply to and write an essay that responds to one of the prompts (Note: this is the only editable part of the presentation so that you can change the extension activity as you see fit; other ideas are included!).
• Evaluate: Reflection questions at the end of the presentation.
• Extra: Ideas for engaging students and extending the lesson further!

⭐️ Also included on slides: Information on the writing process, a graphic organizer, a link to the College Essay Guy's website with more tips, and an interactive Google Slides rubric/scoring guide!

⭐️ This presentation can be used by teachers or counselors with distance learning, face-to-face instruction, OR a hybrid approach in any secondary class. You can present the lesson to the whole class or have students review it themselves in small groups! This is the perfect lesson for a high school AVID, advisory, or language arts class!

⭐️ This product is a COMPLETE LESSON in one place (similar to a Hyperdoc, which takes students through the learning cycle in one doc or slide deck using hyperlinks and other media). Perfect for using as a differentiated, self-paced, student-centered lesson and/or whole class presentation!

⭐️ The time it takes for the entire lesson will vary depending on how much time you allow for group discussions, follow-up class sharing, and extension activities. You could spend as little as 45 minutes on the presentation itself, if that's all the time you have, or one to three whole classes or more if you include some of the suggested extension activities. For ESL classes, you may need a little more time. I would allow students at least one week to write their essays and then another week to get feedback and make revisions.

Note: You can skip or delete any of the slides you don't want to use and add your own notes to any of the slides.

This lesson has it all:

-Explicit instruction

-21st century skills

-Multi-modalities

-Hands-on learning

-Differentiation

-Scaffolding

-Higher levels of questioning

-Real-life connection

-Student choice

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⭐️ You might also like:

How to Pay for College

How to Appeal Financial Aid

Financial Aid BUNDLE (includes this product)

How to Write a Personal Statement

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