Your Last Day

Hi Seniors -
It's here. The last period of your last day of high school. I'm really going to miss all of you, and I wish you nothing but the best in the future. And of course, I'll see you at Ravinia! Thank you for a fun and interesting year. Thank you most of all for all the times you made me laugh!
Mrs. Allen

Here are some options for today:

1. I was reading an article this weekend about how people remember high school as "the good ole days" but most people's memories are high school aren't very accurate. How accurate do you think your memories of high school will be? How accurate would you want them to be? Would you rather remember high school as it was, or better than it was? Discuss this as a group.
2. The New York Times this weekend has a column on Advice for College Students. Read through some and discuss interesting ideas with each other.
3. Send me an email with any other thoughts you have on things I should or shouldn't do in Issues next year.
4. Sign yearbooks. 

The Soul of America

Review of the Soul of America

‘Assume the Worst’: This Isn’t Your Ordinary Graduation Speech

Understanding the Transition to College

Understanding the Transition to College

Marketplace of Ideas Rubric

Here is the rubric for the Marketplace of Ideas.

Genocide Remembrance Day

Hi Class - 

In the craziness of last week and with us having no class on Friday, I neglected to discuss with you the opportunity to hear a speaker today in honor of Genocide Remembrance Day. 

Steen Metz is a Holocaust Survivor who will be speaking in the auditorium during periods 6 and 7. As time passes, there are fewer and fewer Holocaust survivors alive to tell their stories. This is an increasingly rare and important opportunity, and I'm grateful to all who worked so hard to bring us this remembrance day. If you would like to attend, you will be excused from period 6 and 7 for an in-school field. You will not be able to attend unless you can attend both periods. If you chose to attend, please be sure to check in with me in the auditorium for attendance purposes. I hope to see you 6th period.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Mrs. Allen

Schedule for the Marketplace of Ideas

Here is a recommended schedule for your work over the next 3 weeks.

At the end of each class period, you will hand in an exit slip updating me on what you did during the period, and where are you in the project.

Notes on Ending Gun Violence

Please use this format for your notes:

• Statement of the solution you would like to see (your thesis)
• Evidence
• Analysis
• Evidence
• Analysis
• Evidence
• Analysis
• Continue with evidence and analysis
• Bibliography

Your notes should reflect two and a half hours of work time.