Seniors ~ Response Paper

You're SENIORS now, and that means it's time to get serious. This is a very important year for you because decisions you make now can affect the rest of your life. You'll be applying to colleges by Christmas, and May will be here before you know it. So, with that in mind, we head into your senior research project.

The first assignment is a response paper of 250 words. Please type and format according to MLA, addressing the following:

Where do you see yourself in ten years?
What will you be doing? Why?
What will make you happy?
Where will you be?
What do you think it will take to get there?

It's easy to answer these questions without taking it seriously, but I encourage you to start taking it seriously now. If you have a clear goal for your future, then you can take steps necessary to achieve it.

To help you get started, you might want to look at the sites mentioned in class:

For general information, try College Board's Majors & Careers Central
For specifics, look at College Board's Major & Career Profiles
ACT's World-of Work Map -- suggests career paths based on personal interests
The Princeton Review's Career Quiz (requires email registration for results)

Juniors ~ Restoration Period

For more on the Restoration Period, go to the homepage for the Norton Anthology of English Literature . Click on the picture below to go to Wikipedia's page on Hogarth's Marriage a-la-mode :

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

What better way to spend Halloween than reading a story that begins with a beheading? For the next week or so, we'll be discussing Arthurian Literature, beginning with a look at " Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ," the anonymous tale of a test of courtly love, involving a supernatural green knight and a bet. For more information on the poem, read this introduction . I've also included a prose translation that you can compare with the verse translation we have in our book.

Homework

Seniors Your exam is on Thursday, and your final essay is on Friday. I'll talk more about the essay in class tomorrow. Also, the senior auction project lacks one more important detail - your memories! We will spend a bit of time tomorrow in class writing down some of your fondest memories of your senior year, and the rest of your time at RO. Sophomores Read "Lines Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey," and complete the questions at the end of the selection in your book. As always, please use complete sentences and cite frequently from the text.

river oaks [english]

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