Senior Honors Humanities
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For Humanities 12, the Honors curriculum focuses on college level reading and writing skills. This means that we will be working on taking your writing and reasoning to the next level with extended assignments, more difficult topics, more advanced assessment criteria, and feedback focusing on college level writing techniques and skills.
In the first semester, you will have additional (and often more difficult) texts to read, and your essays will have extended requirements, and be graded to a higher standard . While you will be writing on the same topics as the rest of the class, you will have some additional requirements for these writing assignments. In the second semester, you will be focusing all of your attention on the research and writing of your senior thesis, and will be held to higher expectations at all steps of the process. |
Honors Writing Resources
- Honors Writing Rubric: I will be using this rubric to grade your Honors Essays in the fall semester.
- Writing Support Groups: You should use these groups for idea generation, writing critiques, and proofreading. I will make my classroom available at lunch and during 7th period during weeks when you are writing essays for your groups to meet.
Semester 1: Precision, Focus, and Clarity
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In the first semester, our writing focus will be on clarity, focus, and precision. This means that you will be focusing on crafting a focused and tight thesis statement, on writing using paragraph and sentence structure that promote concise and focused arguments, and on choosing words and arguments that are clear and tightly knit.
In addition to this, you will be reading the Pulitzer Prize winning book "Evicted." I will provide you with the text and with a reading schedule, and we will hold discussion groups throughout the semester at lunch (or at another time depending on your schedules). |
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Essay 1: Cynicism |
Essay 2: TBD |
Essay 3: TBD |
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In our first essay of the year, you will be completing a short essay on our first seminar text, "The Habits of Highly Cynical People", by Rebecca Solnit. This essay will give us a baseline of your writing skills, and will serve as a foundational piece to build your writing goals. In this essay, you will be required to draw from the class text and one additional source to build your argument.
Length- 600-1000 words Due Date: TBD Prompt(s): Choose from the provided list. Additional Requirements:
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Semester 2: Advanced Argumentation
Senior Thesis Honors Resources
Coming soon!
