Project Details
Second-semester seniors are undergoing a major life transition as they prepare to graduate high school and launch into the adult world. This passage is a moment when students ask themselves important questions, such as:
How does my life have meaning and purpose?What gifts do I have that the world wants and needs?
To what or to whom do I feel most deeply connected?
How can I rise above my fears and doubts?
What are the highs and lows of the human experience?
In this semester-long project, students in English and Physics will study how photography can capture meaningful images. Students will create a photographic exhibition for public display at Outside the Lens, a local nonprofit, that showcases images and stories that they create.
As second-semester seniors, you are undergoing a major life transition as you prepare to graduate high school and launch into the adult world. This passage is a moment when you be may be asking yourself important questions, such as:
- How does my life have meaning and purpose?
- What gifts do I have that the world wants and needs?
- To what or to whom do I feel most deeply connected?
- How can I rise above my fears and doubts?
- How can I manage the highs and lows of the human experience?
Project Products:
- Three photographs and three stories about a meaningful life
- One stranger
- One person known by you
- You
- One photograph and story for April Exhibition at Outside the Lens (OTL) and one for display the Hallway of the Humanities (outside M’s classroom)
- Commencement Speech about living a meaningful life
- Short class film on what makes a meaningful life
English Products
- Weekly Reading Goals
- Two Book Talks
- One Book Review
- Weekly Letter to Margaret and/or Article Reflection
- Dialogic Journals for Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Socratic Seminar for Man’s Search for Meaning
- Writer’s Notebook
| Dates | Topics | Due |
| Week One
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Independent reading and goals
Journals and record-keeping
Project Launch: Afternoon Airport Field Work ● photograph and a story
Friday Field Work: Penasquitos ● natural world photography |
Story and photograph
Letter to Margaret
Course Overview Acknowledgement |
| Week Two | Life at its Worst: History of the Holocaust
Photography Workshops with Outside the Lens
Friday Field Work: City Outing
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Weekly reading goal
Student presentations
Story and Photograph
Meaning Mind Map
Letter to Margaret
Permission Slips and $45 trip costs for Museum of Tolerance |
| Week Three | Monday: Field Trip to Museum of Tolerance in L.A.
Begin reading Man’s Search for Meaning
Friday Field Work: Mission Gorge |
Weekly Reading Goal
Dialogic Journal
Story and Photography
Letter to Margaret/Article of the Week
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| Week Four
(Friday off) |
Begin Endersession Planning
Continue reading Man’s Search for Meaning |
Weekly Reading Goal
Dialogic Journal
Story and Photograph
Letter to Margaret/Article of the Week |
| Week Five
(Monday off) |
Continue reading Man’s Search for Meaning
Friday Field Work: Cabrillo Tidepools |
Weekly Reading Goal
Dialogic Journal
Letter to Margaret/Article of the Week |
| Week Six | Socratic Seminar on Man’s Search for Meaning
Middlesession planning
Friday Field Work: Balboa Park |
Weekly Reading Goal
Socratic Seminar Reflection
Story and Photograph
Letter to Margaret/Article of the Week
Endersession: ● out of town proposals due ● blog created ● 3 potential leads identified |
| Week Seven
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Middlesession: Independent field work into meaningful life experiences
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Weekly Reading Goal
Story and Photograph from Middlesession
Letter to Margaret/Article of the Week |
| Week Eight | Endersession Gallery Walk at staff meeting
Exhibition Products
Friday Field Work: City Outing
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Weekly Reading Goal
Letter to Margaret/Article of the Week
Endersession: Blog post progress update by Wednesday, March 9 |
| Week Nine
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Endersession Planning
Exhibition Products
Friday Field Work: Sunset Cliffs |
Weekly Reading Goal
Letter to Margaret/Article of the Week
Endsession: Blog post progress update by Wednesday, March 16
Exhibition Products (Tentative Grade)
First Book Talk |
| Week Ten
(Monday off) |
Revise Exhibition Products
Commencement Speeches
Endersession Planning
Friday Field Work: Torrey Pines |
Weekly Reading Goal
Letter to Margaret/Article of the Week
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| Week Eleven | Commencement Speeches
Endersession Planning
Book Review
Friday Field Work: La Jolla Cove |
Weekly Reading Goal
Letter to Margaret/Article of the Week
Endersession: Blog post progress update due Wednesday, April 13 |
| Week Twelve | Commencement Speeches
Endersession Planning
Book Review |
Weekly Reading Goal
Letter to Margaret/Article of the Week
Final Exhibition Products |
| Week Thirteen | Present Commencement Speeches
Exhibition at Outside the Lens |
Reading Reflection
Book Review
Second Book Talk
Commencement Speech
Writer’s Notebooks
Endersession: Final Confirmation |