Writing Homework Help

It is customary for students to write a short essay the first day of a writing class. For your writing sample you will watch a short video and write a response based on the prompt below.

While you are watching this video (and you may want to watch it more than once), please pay attention to content on the following topics

1. Youth mentors
2. Teachers as mentors
3. Poor teachers
4. The comment “You are Lisa Simpson”
5. Child’s relationship with the father
6. Mr. Bergstrom’s comment about being middle class, “Anyone who really cares will abandon you for those who need it more”.
7. Children from homes where parents have less education than their children

The video contains clips from a Simpson’s episode and is about 20 minutes long

Your assignment is to write 400 words on ONE of the seven topics (listed above). It is best if you write about your own experience.  This is not a research assignment  – do not use any outside sources.   However, be sure to refer to the video and cite the video in your essay. Specifically, attach a reference page for the video.  In this case, we are providing the citation and reference for you, but after this you will be citing your sources yourself.

How to save your file: Your Name Writing Sample.docx  (One point penalty for not doing this.)

Link to Video for Writing SampleLinks to an external site.

Reference (on a separate page attached to your essay):

Groening, M. (Writer) & Moore, R. (Director) (1991). Lisa’s substitute. [Television Series episode]. In L. Adamson (Producer), The Simpsons: Los Angeles: Fox Studios.

In-text citation (when you cite the video in your essay):

(Groening & Moore, 1991)