This+I+Believe

With Senior Survey, we read multiple selections from the book This I Believe at the beginning of the year as a part of preparing to write college essays / personal statements. Then, second semester, we revisit this text and read a cross section of authors (different genders, races, ages, beliefs) and students compose their own This I Believe essay to identify what is important to them, and this leads us into the Senior Project. Students then choose an area of importance / belief / interest to them to use as the basis for the senior project.