Main Course Topics
College Essay Boot CampIn our first project of the year, we will be tackling the very real problem of how to make colleges like you in 300-500 words. For the first two weeks of class, we will engage in a college-essay boot camp. This will allow me to get a baseline assessment on your writing skills, and will allow you to knock a major task off your college application to-do list.
For those overachievers (who have already finished their essays) and iconoclasts (who are taking a different path) out there, you will have the option to write a scholarship essay, or to work on a piece of narrative non-fiction to hone your writing skills. |
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Sustainable DevelopmentOne of the greatest challenges facing our communities at every level (family, local, state, national, and global) is how to create sustainable practices that effectively balance the three factors in the diagram shown here.
In this project, we will explore issues of sustainability by looking at what it means to have a sustainable classroom, interrogating our own value systems and how they frame our responses to sustainability challenges, travel to Bear's Ears to see how these spheres intersect in a local place, and ultimately tackle a local issue related to sustainable development and living with the hope of creating real and lasting change. |
Senior ProjectOkay, this is the big one! For the entire second semester, you will exploring a topic of your choosing, both through academic research and writing, and through a self designed project. Your senior project will have three main parts:
Start thinking of ideas now, because you will cycle through many of them before you end up on your final topic. Don't be like the plant guy |
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