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him, and she insisted on staying with me there. My husband thought we should insist she go
home, but it was Christmas vacation for her so there was no real reason. So we talked it over and
she stayed. She stayed every night for the whole week just to be by Matt's side. And when he
woke up she was there. Her smiling face the was first thing he saw.
In spite of the fact she was just a child and it was frightning for her to be there beside her brother
she loves so much, and had to wonder, every day if he would die, she stayed. So courage has
many faces.
Sample ''3" essay
Courage is not something we are born with. It is something that we have to learn.
For example when your children are growing up you should teach them courage. Teach them to
face lifes challanges and not to show there fear. For instance my father. Some people would say
he was harsh, but back then I didnt think of it that way. One time he took me camping and I had a
tent of my own. I wanted to crawl in with him but he said there was nothing to be afriad of. And I
went to sleep sooner than I would have expect. He taught me not to be afriad.
There are many reasons for courage. In a war a solder has to be couragous and a mother has to be
no less couragous if she is rasing a child alone and has to make a living. So, in me it is totally
alright to be afriad as long as you face your fear. I have been greatful to him ever since that night.
Sometimes parents know what is best for there kids even if at the time it seems like a harsh thing.
I learned not to show my fear that night, which is an important point to courage. In everyday life
it is important to learn how to be strong. If we dont learn from our parents, like I did from my
father, then we have to learn it after we grow up. But it is better to learn it, as a child. I have
never been as afriad as I was that night, and I learned a valuble lesson from it.
Sample "1" essay
Courage is important in a battle and also ordinary life. In a war if your buddy depends on you and
you let him down he might die. Courage is also important in daly life. If you have sicknes in the
famly or if you enconter a mugger on the street you will need all the courage you can get. There
are many dangers in life that only courage will see you through.
Once, my apartment was burglerised and they stole a TV and micro-wave. I didnt have very
much. They took some money to. I felt afraid when I walked in and saw things moved or gone.
But I call the police and waited for them inside my apartment which was brave and also some
might say stupid! But the police came and took my statement and also later caught the guy.
Another time my girlfreind and I were in my apartment and we looked out the window and there
was somebody suspisious out in front. It turned out to be a false alarm but she was scard and she
said because I was calm it made her feel better. So courage was important to me, in my
relatinship with my girlfreind.
So courage is importand not only in war but also in life.
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Sample "6" essay
I believe that writing, at least the kind of basic composition needed to be successful in college,
can be taught. The most important factor in teaching a basic composition class, which usually has
students who have been less than successful writers in the past, is a simple one: that the student
be asked to write about something that interests her, that her writing have a context and a purpose
beyond "English class," that the student be made to want to learn to write.
For students who have fallen behind for one reason or another and that reason is many times a
poor education in the early grades it's difficult to see a writing class as anything but an exercise
in plummeting selfesteem. Many students believe that writing well is a mystery only those "with
talent" can understand, and that "English class" is just something to be gotten through, like a root
canal. The first thing to teach them isn't the rules of grammar but that writing has a purpose that
pertains to their lives.
The teacher must appeal to their emotion as well as to their intellect.
I believe the best approach is to ask students to keep a journal in two parts. In one part, grammar
and style shouldn't matter, the way they have to matter in the formal assignments that come later
in the course. In this part of the journal, the student should be asked to keep track of things they
encounter during the day that interest them or cause them to be happy, sad, angry, or afraid. In
the second part of the journal they should keep track of subjects that make them sit up and take
notice in class (or when reading an assignment for a class in which they are particularly
interested), things that whet their intellect and curiosity.
For teaching grammar, the teacher can present exercises in the context of a one-page essay or
story. Giving writing a context is especially important when teaching the rules of correct sentence
construction. Too often in the early grades the student has been presented with dry exercises,
such as to diagram the sentence, "I have a new pencil," when a small essay on an icky grub farm
nearby or the behavior of wolves would have fired their imagination, as well as their intellect,
engaging the whole student.
Only appeal to emotion and intellect and to that most primitive human characteristic,
curiosity will really succeed in engaging the whole student and making him want to learn to
write. And he has to want to learn before anything can really be accomplished.
Sample "4" essay
I believe writing can be taught if we work hard enough at it as teachers. The important thing is to
teach students that it can be enjoyable. Years of fearing writing lie behind a lot of students, and
it's one of the biggest stumbling blocks. But it can be gotten over.
Having them break up into small groups is one way to teach writing to reluctant or ill-prepared
students. Have the students discuss a topic they are all interested in say a recent TV show or an
event coming up at school, then plan a paper and come back and discuss the idea with the whole
class. Your next step can be to have them actually write the paper, then get into their small
groups again and criticize what theyve done.
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