Day 2 Response

How does gender effect the way we interact with others? Think about how we develop friendships, who we initiate conversations with, who we avoid, etc.

Finish The Terminal

Senior Scrapbook

Requirements:

1. 2-page spread for each grade level

This is your opportunity to memorialize your high school years. Be Cheezy! it’s ok for this. use pictures, words, journal, whatever to help you remember your path from the end of junior high to graduation.

2. Writing Assignments:

· Memoir

Choose one event that is memorable and important to you. Write about it in memoir style. First person narrative, descriptive, include emotions, use imagery. Be personal.

· Expository/news reporting of an event

Choose one event that is memorable and important to you, but this time write about it in a news/expository style. Just the facts. Describe the event as an outside observer would. Use lots of details, but detach from it personally.

· Letter to friend

Write a letter to a friend to say goodbye. It is not a permanent goodbye, but the goodbye that you will not see them every day anymore. Describe their impact on your life and what will be missing without their constant presence.

· Letter to self in 10 years

Write a letter to yourself in which you describe where you hope to be, what you think is important in life, the steps you are taking to create a path to get where you want to go.

3. Personal Statement

Your personal statement from boot camp or avid or your college application. If you don’t have one, I will provide you with the prompt.

4. Senior Resume

Again, should be a reprint of something already done. A resume to show you off in an academic and professional manner.

5. Momentos

10 items that are memorable to you. Not Pictures! These are items that may seem insignificant to others, but hold special meaning to you because they bring a memory of a special event. These can be ribbons or awards, speeding or parking ticket (I got a speeding ticket the morning of prom!), a receipt from something, whatever; as long as it has meaning to you. You will need to explain each momento in a brief paragraph.

6. Poetry

Complete one of the poems that is listed in the choices (I Am, Diamond, Cinquain, Emotion, Why, Personal).

If you are interested in Extra Credit, the information is on the link above or you may request it from Mrs. Coats.