Senior English: Final Projects

School Year: 2022–2023
Teachers: Mr. Eure and Mrs. Villano

A showcase of final senior projects that run the gamut from TED-inspired live presentations to scripted podcasts. 

Paired READ posters and reader-responses essays on texts chosen by students.

A collection of letters students wrote to their past eighth-grade selves or to the current eighth graders.

Learn more about the projects through each page and by reading the instructional overview. Here is one of the key learning elements from that post:

The most important element of project-based learning in this space — so important that it’s been repeated and bolded multiple times in this post — is this: You can individualize almost every aspect of the work. You might even be able to take “almost” out of that sentence, because the exceptions are there in any classroom. You’re going to have to read and write, and there will be required texts and essays; after that relatively short list, though, every aspect is malleable, if not outright fungible.

Remember what a makerspace does: It poses problems, solves them with available resources, and evaluates the process in order to improve. In the Humanities, our problem-solving is focused on the skills of reading and writing, with a secondary focus on building a better self through what we read and write.

For a window into how these projects were refined over the final quarter of the year, read the following:

You can also navigate to the homepage for the current course, or use the links above (under the 1974 award-winning Sisyphus pictures) to visit three resource pages directly.

22–23 Course One-Sheet (Color)

Below is a link to a "menu" set up for students in Q4. This is an example of how exhaustively and precisely choice must be scaffolded for a makerspace to work — creating, to paraphrase Tony Wager, a different structure, not a lack of structure.

This document should look like this screenshot when you turn on the index.

Below is a link to last year's site for senior projects, presentations, and more.