Senior Project Topics

Plan on meeting with your advisory teacher, or another teacher you know well, to get advice on your Senior Project topic. You should decide on a topic by Monday, Oct. 6.

Week of Sept. 22

Be prepared on Monday to teach your chapter of Fast Food Nation to the class and to check for student comprehension.

We will then turn our attention to the Senior Project for the rest of the week. I will get a class set of paperback books called Pathfinder that helps with choosing a topic and writing a thesis statement.

See the Senior Project section on the Hollywood High School library website for details.

Week of Sept. 15

We will review the vocabulary for the two articles you read over the weekend. You will answer critical thinking questions involving logos (facts), ethos (author's credibility) and pathos (appeal to emotion). You will read the directions for an in-class essay test and write the essay on Wednesday.

Thursday and Friday will be spent reading chapters from the book Fast Food Nation in groups and planning how you will teach your chapter to the class.

Week of Sept. 8

On Monday, you are turning in your Writing Autobiography (rough draft, partner form, final draft typed). Period 2 gets their books on Monday; Period 1 gets theirs on Tuesday. We will distribute them all on Wednesday. 

Monday: Reading and writing in college. Homework: Read The University of Planet Earth.

Tuesday: Socratic Seminar on The University of Planet Earth.

Wednesday and Thursday: Fast food unit in textbook.

Friday: Essay test on fast food unit. Homework: Read a chapter from Fast Food Nation.