Zitkala Sa

Prewriting for Essay #1

1.) How do your parents feel about you going to college? Your siblings? Other family members? High-school classmates? Other friends?

2.) Who has most encouraged you to go to college? Has anyone discouraged you? Who? Why?

3.) In the course of your education, and especially as you've approached college, have you ever been the target of some form of discrimination, prejudice, or stereotyping? Has it encouraged and strengthened you, or has it discouraged and weakened you? Explain.

4.) Has your appearance ever helped or hindered you in your education? Has it helped or hindered you on your road to entering college?

By "appearance," you can include many things: the color of your skin (race/ethnicity), your gender (female/male), your age, your clothing, your eye color, whether you wear glasses or not, your hair color or style, your posture, your height, your weight, your facial expressions, whether you have braces or not, etc.