Due Thursday, May 31st - A.P.E. Time Capsule & Final Blog Response

1.  Container – Any size is fine. It will probably stay in your closet waiting for you to open it years from now. You may decorate it or not depending on how you feel. The only criterion is that it must be labeled somewhere – Do not open until 2028.


2.  Letter – Write a letter to your future self. Include the following in your letter:

• How do feel about yourself at present? What obstacles are you dealing with at present? (Use your journal to cull ideas from our global citizenship work). 
• What positive things are happening? Think about Mr. Rogers and his positive ideas of self. 
• Where do you see yourself in 5 years? How will school turn out? What job do you expect to have? What will your love life be like? What will you relationship with family and friends be like? 
• Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Do you expect to be married? Children? Traveling? Working? 
• Reflect on the course. What books, stories, poems had the greatest impact on you? What concepts will you take with you? Has your reading and/or writing style changed? Are there any other general, memorable moments? 
• Tell yourself what book you want to read and why. 

3.  Mementos – You may include anything that you want your future self to see from your present.


4.  Your Ideal Bookshelf – Use the link below to visit the website and get ideas.  Create a vivid image, photograph of your ideal bookshelf. What books changed your life? What books shaped you into the person you are today. Can you see yourself in the list? When you finish, out it in your time capsule.

https://www.idealbookshelf.com/products/ideal-bookshelf-1044-lgbtq-essentials

Mr. Pellerin's Ideal Bookshelf from 2016

5.  Book – This is essential. Your future self will just pick it out and read it.


6. Final Reflection Blog - In this blog space, reflect on the course. What worked for you? What did you learn? What lessons or units were most effective and why? What books, stories, poems had the greatest impact on you? What concepts will you take with you? Has your reading and/or writing style changed? Are there any other general, memorable moments?

Here's what we read this year:

Major Works

Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
Tim O’Brien, In a Lake of the Woods
Michael Cunningham, The Hours
Jane Austen, Persuasion
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Albert Camus, The Stranger

Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams

Short Stories

Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings
James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues 

James Baldwin, Going to Meet the Man                                                                         
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
Shira Nayman, The House of Kronenstrasse
Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat
Jhumpa Lahiri, Gogol
Amy Tan, A Pair of Tickets

Drama

Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Film

I am Not Your Negro (2016)

The 13th (2016)

Marjorie Prime (2017)

Mr. Rogers & Me (2012)

Ghosts (1990)

A Doll House (1988)

Hamlet (1990)

Hamlet (1996)

The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)

Poetry

Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll
Richard Wilbur, A Barred Owl
Billy Collins, The History Teacher
Taylor Mali, Like, Totally Whatever
Jan Heller Levi, Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad
Theodore Roethke, My Papa’s Waltz
Billy Collins, Introduction to Poetry
Sharon Olds, First Hour
Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting
Mark Doty, Golden Retrievals
Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body
Richard Wilbur, Advice to a Prophet
Taylor Mali, What Teachers Make
Rita Dove, Fifth Grade Autobiography
Seamus Heaney, Mid-Term Break
Robert Penn Warren, Evening Hawk
Laura Gilpin, The Two-Headed Calf
Stephen Dunn, Death of a Colleague
Ted Kooser, Selecting a Reader
Gerad Manley Hopkins, The Habit of Perfection
Taylor Mali, The The Impotence of Proofreading
John Donne, Death Be Not Proud
William Shakespeare, Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds