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Final Student Projects: 2023–2024
English 12: Mr. Eure & Mrs. Villano
Project Categories & Process
Project Categories & Process
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You will find that students were given choice in topic, audience, and delivery, and that we used this freedom and flexibility to celebrate the variety of voices in the graduating class at the high school.
Note on Statements of Purpose: These are copied over directly from student submissions for this part of the process. Not every student completed this step. In some cases, the space has been used for context or additional student work.
Before You Explore: A Note on Empathy
Before You Explore: A Note on Empathy
The first skill emphasized in our course — and in the real world — is empathy, and we spent part of the second semester reading and writing toward a deeper understanding of the role empathy plays in our community.
There is an excellent resource page for this unit that includes our work on The Bean Trees and short fiction. The focus, that we are part of an everyday network of others, led to the overhauled project options seen here in 2024:
Empathy also dictated some of the decisions regarding what was shared. Some student work is shared anonymously, and some work was not shared at all. Students were able to choose, and that choice was honored.
In fact, students chose the format, structure, and audience for their projects, relying on the structure of the makerspace and the daily feedback and checkpoints to guide them. Everything from their font choices to the mechanical errors that survived a few rounds of revision are left intact.
That authenticity requires empathy, too: As you explore student work, you should remain empathetic and forgiving. It is never easy to share one's creations, no matter how small the audience is.
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