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Senior Scrapbook Project

for your creative writing project, this year you'll create a senior scrapbook, something you can use to reflect back and look forward.

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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.    ~ Samuel Smiles
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We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect love, and when we get there, we dream of something else, and the journey goes on.   ~ Rob Machado
Not too long from now you will be walking down the aisle to receive your diploma.  Before you know it, you may have children of your own, and you will be facing the responsibilities of a parent with a teenager.   Your child may say to you, “You just don’t understand!”  Perhaps you have said this to your own parents a time or two.  For this reason you will be creating an autobiographical reflection scrapbook.  So that you can look back and remember what is was like to be a teenager.

Your scrapbook should reflectively document your high school years. You must give yourself time and space to create this scrapbook because it requires you to “think” about where you have been and where you are going once you leave PHS.   Include what is important to you-- what has been important, what you want to remember exactly as it happened or exactly as it is today.

Your Senior Scrapbook project will consist of essays and other pieces of writing written this year and mementos collected from your senior year, compiled into a scrapbook, designed and augmented by you.

For your cover, you may buy a scrapbook or create your own out of cardboard, decorated and reinforced by you, bound by you. Use your imagination. Avoid 3-ring binders. They will inhibit your creativity. There will be quarterly check-ins to insure that you aren't putting this all off to the last minute. 


That said, you will not be graded on artistic merit, but your grade will consist in part of "Pride of Ownership," that is, how seriously you took this, how much effort did you take to ensure your scrapbook reflects your personality, and how much commitment did you make towards this project. If you turn in a sloppy piece of work, your grade will reflect that. 

Required Pieces:
Piece 1 - The Cube
Piece 2 - Your Obit
Piece 3 - Your Hero Essay
Piece 4 - Your Hero Thank You Letter
Piece 5 - Things I Carry Assignment
Piece 6 - Things They Carried Essays
Piece 7 - 1/2 Page Reflection on The Jabberwocky Projects
Piece 8 - Life of Pi Essays
Piece 9 - 1/2 Page Reflection on the Life of Pi Project 
Piece 10 - 1/2 Page Reflection on giving your Hero their Thank You Letter  
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