2 nd period: how would you rate the effectiveness of these leads?

2nd period:How would you

rate the effectiveness of

these leads?

• #1. “Have you ever felt like you were alone? like no one understood you. The feeling like the inside of you is dead and you are living you life as a corpse trying to find happiness to feed on, like anyone or anything could just knock you down with one blow and the only resolution is to see your own blood hit the floor. That’s what it felt like to be me for 7 years of neglect and being alone, not letting anyone in out of fear of getting hurt.”

#1—confident; engaging/exciting; who wouldn’t’ want to keep reading?#2---It’s OK. My mom/dad/grandparent might keep reading (B/c they love me)#3—fairly weak; only my English teacher would want to keep reading (B/c she has to)

• #2. “Ever since I started Bollywood dance in 2010, I got really preoccupied with it. The past summer I had my first dance recital in June. I perform at festivals and parties but this recital had over 550 people which was incredible.”

• #3. “Everytime I go outside at night I am on edge from the scary animal noises and the fact that i can’t see anything. I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t scared of these things. My whole family knows these fears. The dark was hard to see people coming up behind you or the animals that are making scary noises. The night is the scariest part of the day.”


• #4. “My family has a history of animals. My mother has loved animals ever since she was a kid, and I guess I take after her. Before my brother got a cat, we’ve already had two dogs and one cat. So adding another animal to the family didn’t seem like a big deal … we were wrong.”

• #5. “I went to the most exciting Indians game with my family, on a sunny, hot, June 19, summer day. It was an AL central matchup between the Tribe and the Minnesota Twins.”


• #6. “As I woke up at 5:45 in the morning the smell of freshly brewed coffee roamed the air. As I opened the bedroom door to walk to the the kitchen, I could smell bacon being fried in the pan.”

• #7. “BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! The noise of my alarm clock rudely awoken me. As I rolled out of my bed feeling tired as ever I realized today was the day. A extremely important day. The once in a lifetime opportunity is occurring, World Series Tournament.”


#1—confident; engaging/exciting; who wouldn’t’ want to keep reading?#2---It’s OK. My mom/dad/grandparent might keep reading (B/c they love me)#3—fairly weak; only my English teacher would want to keep reading (B/c she has to)• #8. “Scars have the strange power to remind us that the past is real.”

When people think of scars they immediately envision them as beautiful, even romantic, but the reality of it is, scars are reminders of how poorly we handled the past. People take words or actions that were spoken or done, and carve the hate into their beautiful, flawless skin; however, others are a victim of their own mind, like myself.”

• #9. “My mom is my hero in several different ways. Shes a fighter, shes strong, and a survivor. Shes a great person and is very caring. I’m so lucky and thankful that my mom is here with me today and healthy. My mom has made it through a lot of tough times, but this one was one she will never forget.”

• #10. “It started in middle school I was always the chubby one out-of-shape fat kid, who played football and never got the chance to start.”

• #11. “I am a wrestler who had gone to a tournament with a coach with no experience. My two coaches were with another wrestler who was at a different tournament than I was. My dad was out of town at the time so he wasn't there to be my coach either. The coach I had at the wrestling tournament was my mom.”


3rd period:How would you


these leads?

• #1. “The plane ride there was just the beginning of the problems. My cousin, Anna, lost her retainer at about 1:30 AM so while I was trying to relax and sleep she threw all my stuff while she was having a panic attack over having to pay for a new one, just imagine a monkey throwing all your stuff and screaming while you are trying to sleep.”

• #2. “It was already August 1st, the day of highschool soccer tryouts. I woke up that morning and went on a 2 mile run, then made myself a nutritious meal so that I would be energized a ready for the big day. I have been waiting so long for this day to come. My mind was racing with all the possibilities that could happen.”


• #3. “The other team had the ball and my friend stole it. He went to the basket knowing if he makes this shot the game would be tied! He shot the ball and tied the game! Then the very next play I stole the ball knowing that if I score we would have the lead. I raced the defender down the court...”

• #4. “Over the summer, My family and my cousins, Ryan and Amanda, and my aunt and uncle went to Wisconsin Dells. Wisconsin Dells is a tourist attraction in Wisconsin known as “The Waterpark Capital of the World.”’


• #5. “Back in the summer of 2014 me and two other friends chad and Zack went to an abandoned warehouse. We heard there was an abandoned warehouse down the tracks and people said that’s where Jeffery Domer hid out at. and that no ones ever been in there before we were heard ghostly voices.”

• #6. “I often ask myself “how different would my life be if I never met Jason and his family”. A few years ago my Uncle had been badly burnt all over his legs and body, he spent most of the summer in Akron Children’s hospital.”


• #7. “In 8th grade, we haven't had a snow day all year. It has been weather like a snow day but we still had school. Snow days are cool but, if we get too many we have to go an extra day of school. Everyone wants snow days, but sometimes we just need a snow day. They also can come unexpected overnight.”

• #8. ““(so-and-so)will be playing varsity and practicing with us and will be starting for the Highland game,” Coach E said.”


• #9. “When I was in 6th grade my NYB (Nordonia Youth Basketball) team went to the championship against the number one team in the league. From the start they gave it their all. Throughout the game my team was down by only two or four points. We had our advantages with size and team chemistry, but they had speed. They were all fast and could get up the court quicker than anyone on my team so we had to limit the amount of turnovers to prevent them from getting easy points.”


#1—confident; engaging/exciting; who wouldn’t’ want to keep reading?#2---It’s OK. My mom/dad/grandparent might keep reading (B/c they love me)#3—fairly weak; only my English teacher would want to keep reading (B/c she has to)• #10. “I sat quietly in the car with my sisters. The sun

baked into my skin while watching the blinding blue and red lights with loud sirens that could make me deaf. My big black lab was barking and growling at the men in uniforms. I saw my mommy’s curly blond hair in the back seat of the jet black police car. Questions flooded my mind like a tsunami. Why are there policemen at my house?”

4AC Period: How would you


these leads?

#1—confident; engaging/exciting; who wouldn’t’ want to keep reading?#2---It’s OK. My mom/dad/grandparent might keep reading (B/c they love me)#3—fairly weak; only my English teacher would want to keep reading (B/c she has to)• 1. “I always thought that dogs from the pound were just animals

that are bad, apparently I was wrong. On one cold day, my parents were talking about getting a new dog today,(our last one just died 5 days before.) I really didn't want a dog from the pound. I thought dogs from the pound were old, broken, filthy, betrayed, little animals from there last owner. So we left the house and went to the first pound. When we first got in there, it was really loud and smelly, it smelled like wet dog and dodo. We went up and down the aisle of the dogs in cages. There were a lot of pit bulls. There were no good dogs in this pound.”

• 2. “It was a warm summer when jared and I went to the beach, it was an exciting day. but lately my social anxiety had been chipping away at me like a sculptor's chisel on marble. Ever since sixth grade I hadn't felt the same, afraid to embarrass myself, to speak out of turn, afraid to be my self. But, I was confident that I could break the awful bonds of my anxiety before high school started.”


#1—confident; engaging/exciting; who wouldn’t’ want to keep reading?#2---It’s OK. My mom/dad/grandparent might keep reading (B/c they love me)#3—fairly weak; only my English teacher would want to keep reading (B/c she has to)• 3. “It was almost like a dream. There I was standing by his

grave. The grave belonged to my Uncle Curt, the greatest man who walked the planet. A young life that was taken way too soon. The crisp autumn air pierced my lungs with each breath as I remembered a simpler time, a happier time. I remember the first time I conquered a fear that I never thought I would defeat. He helped me, he understood. It’s crazy looking back and thinking that would be one of the last times I saw him”

#1—confident; engaging/exciting; who wouldn’t’ want to keep reading?#2---It’s OK. My mom/dad/grandparent might keep reading (B/c they love me)#3—fairly weak; only my English teacher would want to keep reading (B/c she has to)• 4. “I joined swim team in the 6th grade with a couple of my friends. It was

a challenge at first, but I got better. One of my friends, Mason, was an excellent swimmer, and the fastest on the team. He had gotten under thirty seconds in his fifty freestyle time way before me. At every meet, I would see his times and sit alone at my towel, wishing I could do what he and did.”

• 5. “One day, i went over my neighbors house, danielle and colee’s; just to hangout and we decided to go on a walk. On our on walk, we decided to go on a different street than the one we live on and in the mean time of us walking trying to think what we could possibly do on that hot summer day, we saw a little furry friend; at least thats what i thought.”

#1—confident; engaging/exciting; who wouldn’t’ want to keep reading?#2---It’s OK. My mom/dad/grandparent might keep reading (B/c they love me)#3—fairly weak; only my English teacher would want to keep reading (B/c she has to)• 6. “Are you guys ready to go?” said my mom to my sister and me. Ever

since i was a baby, my mothers family would get together at my grandparents to celebrate holidays and birthdays. We would always have a blast together whether we were inside or outside. But, one of our many get-togethers will always be remembered differently than all the others.”

• 7. “One day me and my family were at dinner with the rest of my family and we were debating where we would like to go on vacation. We all thought it would be fun to go to Europe on a cruise ship! But the only way to get there would be to fly. I’ve never been on a plane before so it was just scary to even think about being above the clouds, not being able to see anything, or anyone.”

#1—confident; engaging/exciting; who wouldn’t’ want to keep reading?#2---It’s OK. My mom/dad/grandparent might keep reading (B/c they love me)#3—fairly weak; only my English teacher would want to keep reading (B/c she has to)• 8. “When Johnny was 7, he never had a real pet before

aside from some fish. In December, 2007, his mother said that we would be getting our first pet, a cat as a Christmas present. Johnny’s mom had a interesting history of cats when she was a kid. Most of her cats either died of disease or ran away. Johnny was scared that my first cat would die like my mother’s cats. Either way, he was excited to get a cat for the first time.”

#1—confident; engaging/exciting; who wouldn’t’ want to keep reading?#2---It’s OK. My mom/dad/grandparent might keep reading (B/c they love me)#3—fairly weak; only my English teacher would want to keep reading (B/c she has to)• 9. “One day when it was warm outside, my best friend called me and asked

if i could come over. I asked my mom and my mom said that I was aloud to go. When I got there, we were bored, we had nothing to do. So later she thought of asking our other friend, Valerie, to come over and hangout with us. Of course, she had to ask her mom is she was allowed, when she asked, her mom said she could, so Valerie came over and hang out with us.”

• 10. “Ever since my mom and i went to Pennsylvania in her tiny little blue Saturn I have hated long car rides. After my mom sold her Saturn to young blond girl with nice eyes we had gotten a dark blue Chrysler town and country. The minivan had three times the space the old car did and was a lot nicer with two TV's and limo lights on the selling.”

#1—confident; engaging/exciting; who wouldn’t’ want to keep reading?#2---It’s OK. My mom/dad/grandparent might keep reading (B/c they love me)#3—fairly weak; only my English teacher would want to keep reading (B/c she has to)• 11. “For the past three summers, I have been in the

Children’s Summer workshop at the Aurora Community Theatre. In 2012, I was a New Yorker/hobo in Annie Jr. That was where I learned how fun acting, singing and dancing was. I definitely wanted to come back the next year.”

6th Period: How would you


these leads?

• 1. “As I walked into the bright lights of the convention center the smell of fresh printed comic books and new costumes filled my mind. Finally I thought, I’m here at comic-con for the first time, this is my chance to do what I thought would never happen. At this point I’m guaranteed to meet the guy of my dreams, the guy that I have been watching behind a television screen for four years. This was no doubt my only chance I could take my dreams and make it a reality. The only chance to be truly happy for the rest of my life.”

#1—strong, engaging/exciting; I definitely want to read more.#2---It’s OK; I’ll read a little bit more to see if it fully catches my attention soon.#3—fairly weak; I’d rather not keep reading… unless I have to.

• 2. “I woke up my head felt like a ton of bricks I just wanted to lay back down but I managed to make it up. It was still dark which was a good thing I got downstairs, there was a smell of fresh toasted bread in the air. We had a fresh breakfast of light golden brown toast perfectly prepared egg. I put on my dark camouflage it was a nice thick coating. I walked outside the crisp fall air hit me it was cold for a fall morning but it was good I know it would only improve my chances.”



• 3. “Ever since I saw my dad hunting when i was a kid, I wanted to be just like him. It was a cold day in the fall of November, I was with my cousins and it was about two in the afternoon. I was sighting in my scope and practicing shooting my cross bow all day. We practiced to around 6, and then the time had come to go hunting. At this moment i was very excited, we started to head to the woods. I went in a tree stand and my cousins walk slow off to my right about 400 meters away deep in to the woods. I was sitting up in the treed stand with the cool fall breeze. I could see the big open field in front of me, and the leaf covered ground around the tree, with the sound of birds singing their evening songs for what seemed to be four hours, but was only 30 minutes.”

• 4. “I always wanted another dog. I already have one dog, whose name is Maddie. She was abused by her previous owner, but I got her from the APL. It was at the end of last Summer, around August, when I got my dog. I went to my friends ice skating competition. My dad was going to be there after it was over. I got a call from my dad saying he has a surprise in the car for me. I thought that it would be like a new PlayStation that I had been wanting for a long time to get. But getting Buddy was even better then a PlayStation.”


• 5“Since i was little i have been afraid of high places. Everyone loved high places except me.”

• 6. “I cautiously stepped out of my car into a completely foreign building. It was just me myself and I trying to fit in with the slightly intimidating people here at the Garfield Heights Fire Station. I was there to participate in a youth theatre group every Saturday during the school year. Only a couple short weeks before had I first met the directors, who happened to be extremely nice unlike the horrifying species that is teenagers, or worse, talking to them.”


• 7. “Beep! Beep! Beep! My alarm clock went, I woke up suddenly. It was 6:00 am, August 21st. I had realized that summer was sadly over and that the school year was about to begin. But it wasn’t just any old first day of school, it was my first day of high school! I got out of my bed quickly and I actually wasn’t tired, I was wide awake. Maybe it was the fact that I could feel all the nerves in my body shaking. I walked to the kitchen and saw my breakfast waiting for me on the table but I didn’t eat it. Yet I could hear my stomach sound at the smell of the crisp bacon, egg and cheese sandwich. But I wasn’t hungry. I went to my room and put my clothes on and tied my shoes.”


• 8. “My Great Grandma has been in my life ever since i could remember. We call her Nanny, she would always be making food and giving little gifts to us when we came over. She lived by herself next door to her daughter, but i call her daughter Grandma Bev and her husband Papa Bill.”

• 9. “I was always asked which sport was my favorite volleyball or track i never knew what to pick. But after one of the greatest moment in my life I think I might say track. It all started in fifth grade when my relay team started and we were undefeated ever since. We knew our eighth grade year was the year that mattered most because if we qualified we were able to go to the big city meet.”


• 10. “It’s pregame. School just ended about 25 minutes ago. Its the first game of the season and I'm super nervous It’s my first varsity football game as freshman. I've never been more nervous. As we walk over to the locker room from our pre game meetings,. I'm trying to visualize what I'm gonna do in the game and how I'm going to do in the game. I'm so nervous.”


• 11. “In 5th grade, the cold air blowing, the leaves falling, the slight amount of rain was coming down, almost turning to snow as it landed on my hands. I stared out onto the playground, watching my classmates climb all over the set. I looked up at the sky, a single drop fell onto my face. I wiped it off as my eyes followed one raindrop running down the side of the door i was next to.”


• 12. “Ever since kindergarten, (so-and-so) has been my best friend, but there was once a time in our friendship when we got separated from each other. Me and (so-and-so) were in the same kindergarten class at Northfield Elementary. We would sit together at lunch and always be partners together. She would come over my house and we would play outside all day. She lived fairly close to me, just up the street. We bonded very quickly, our personalities were fairly similar and we liked to joke around a lot.”


• 13. “It was finally the weeknd and jumped out of my bed packed my clothes ready to go over my friends house for a sleepover. When i got there i had so much fun we played so many games then the next morning is when everything started. While she was watching tv i was just staring out the window as i see lots of cars pass by. Then we decided go downstairs when we found out that her brother was going to the park.”


7th Period: How would you


these leads?

• 1. “It was just another hot, sunny, afternoon day at clays park. Me and some of my friends were getting ready to go up to the lake, so we got dressed, packed all our stuff, and got ready to go.”

• 2. “My mom has always been an important person in my life. She was always there for me no matter what. Now it was my turn to be there for her.”


• 3. “It was 2008 and I loved being outside,and around nature. Throughout my life I have been camping, hiking, snorkeling, and cliff jumping. All of these adventures have a story behind it but I have always wanted to conquer my fear of exploring a cave[Man vs. Nature/ Me vs. my fear of nature]. I was five and went in a cave for a field trip for school and found bats fly through which scared me for the rest of my life. Screaming and yelling filled the cave with screeching horror. In all honesty over time I have gotten claustrophobic and swore that I would never go in a cave or tight spaces ever again. Until one day something very surprising happened that I will never forget and think about every day.”


• 4. “It was the summer of 2009, I was 10 years old and i always went over my neighbor jakes house, and my sister were both 7. We went over there almost every weekend and they would always have cookouts, and parties. But the one cookout we went to that summer, changed us all and went terribly wrong.”

• 5. “In March 2012, my parents told me they want to move to a bigger house, I was surprised and bearly convinced about the whole idea. I could not wrap my head aronud the idea of moving!”


• 6. “People ask me “Why do you like basketball. I say the championship of 2012.”

• 7. “It was a foggy, chilly, fall morning in September and the sun had just come up, peaking through the clouds, it was a great day for baseball. The smell of freshly cut grass and hearing the clinging noise of the bat is music to my ears.”


• 8. “Around November of last year, we were hard at work for Science Olympiad, a club that meets after school to work on various science-related events. Science Olympiad is an organization that sponsors a set of academic competitions between schools from across the country.”

• 9. “He was one of my best friends, but he still was my Uncle Teddy. The big brother to my mom, the one that looked out for everyone. My uncle was one of the caring types. He would always look out for his family and friends but not all the time could he. Sometimes he need someone to look out for him in his bad times.”


• 10. “I was in 8th grade and that school year was the year i would have never thought i could have went through. i thought it was going to be so many projects and papers, i was going to have to write a lot of papers and i was really nervous about being at the middle school. And then months went by and i started getting used to it. then the school year was almost up and it was time for high school and once i heard those words utter out my parents’ mouths and my teachers mouths, in my head I'm like, Is this really happening?”


2 nd period: how would you rate the effectiveness of these leads?

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confident engagingexciting

english teacher

summer day

family didnt

important day

scary animal noises

scary noises

dance recital