Below is the letter I wrote for Ms. Hunnisett when I was in Grade 9, creating a portfolio for Grade 10 AP ELA. Throughout my entire life, I knew I was going to go into[…]
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lucid (polished personal)
Prompt: What do these texts suggest about the conflict between pursuing a personal desire and choosing to conform? Based off the image, Diogéne Ou La Lucidité by Gilbert Garcin We are all born in darkness,[…]
mirror, mirror (polished critical on The Stone Angel)
Prompt: The role self-perception plays when individuals attempt to determine their own destiny Self-perception is a product of identity, yet can only be truly determined when influences of society are considered. For instance, women[…]
“Kaddish” Allen Ginsberg Personal Response
“Kaddish” by Allen Ginsberg Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I’ve been up[…]
there’s no place like home
Choose a novel or play in which a central character leaves home yet finds that home remains significant. Write a well-developed essay in which you analyze the importance of “home” to this character and the[…]
eating pears in cold weather (part one)
I have begun writing a short story series that will become a novella. This is part 1. I have to tell her she can’t smoke on the fifth floor. Although- I don’t think it would[…]
a curious love affair (a quotation presentation)
“I must admit to a lifelong love affair with curiosity.” -Timothy Findley as Juliet d’Orsey ( Part 4, pg. 147) Say: Juliet d’ Orsey is telling her accounts of Robert Ross through reading out her childhood[…]
Feral- Chapters 1-2
The following is the first two chapters of a novel I started writing over the summer, that I’ve recently edited. It’s a little rough and probably a little confusing but either way I hope that[…]
Culture Seminar-Imperial Russia
Link to power point: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HK5KDgWfiBYha4Hjj8ckCVVBW9uQBEYVDStFJp9TUrM/edit?usp=sharing Background Information: The Russian Empire lasted from 1721-1917. It was established during the reign of Peter the Great after Russia emerged victorious from the Great Northern War in which they fought[…]
Pursuing Family Honor In Uncertain Circumstances- Polished Critical
Prompt: The ways in which individuals struggle to restore honor and certainty Thesis: In Shakespeare’s, Hamlet, an individual pursues the restoration of their family honor, sacrificing their morality in the process, causing them to[…]