Due Friday, June 14th - All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Mr. Pellerin's Freshmen English

Overview:  Go back to our first blog, and walk through the 2018-2019 school year.  Revisit the books we read and our class responses.  Look on Turnitin.com and review your past essays.  What did you learn this year?  What are the life lessons?  Think about the "All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" posters.  Use that format here, and expound on how you will take the wisdom of Freshmen English with you into the great beyond.  Please follow the format and rubric below:

1)  Review the following works and experiences:

• "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins
• Mr. P. Goes Global (Website)
• "The Danger of the Single Story" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Global Goals for Sustainable Development 
• "The Allegory of a Cave" by Plato
• "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
• "First Hour" by Sharon Olds
• Anthem by Ayn Rand
• Inequality for All (2013)
• Petrarchean Sonnets
• English Sonnets
• Shakespearean Sonnets
• Metaphysical Poetry and Works of John Donne
• "Where are You Local?" by Taiye Selasi
• Who Am I?
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• "St. Crispin's Day" from Henry V by William Shakespeare
• Romeo and Juliet (1968)
• Romeo and Juliet (1996)
• Lessons from Denice Yao Pomary
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• Oliver! (1968)
• The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• "Burning a Book" by William Stafford
• "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold
• Minority Report (2002)

2)  Select a cross-section of five of the works above, and make a list of the five substantial quotations that mirror life lessons you obtained from our class.

3) Using the bullet list, compose a fat paragraph for each one, using direct evidence from the text and other texts.  These paragraphs should look like comprehensive blog responses or body paragraphs for a formal essay.  Make personal connections to the characters and your own experiences.  What will you do in your life now that you have been touched by these works?

4)  Include a conclusion where you describe your overall experience in class.  You may even choose a paraphrased quotation from Mr. P. as your heading.  What books were your favorites?  What were your favorite units?  Lessons?  Projects?

5)  When all five paragraphs and your conclusion are complete, post them to the blog.  Make sure to keep the quotations.  It will most likely need to be spread out to 2-3 posts, as it will be a lot of words.

6)  On exam day, we will spend half the class reading other's responses and responding.  The second half we will have our final discussion and say our temporary goodbyes.  We will also discuss the summer reading list and some suggestions by Mr. P.