Graduation Speeches

11 inspiring quotes from celeb commencement speeches

In class today

Hi Class -
Well, seniors - you made it. Today is your last day! Listed below are some options for how you can spend the period. Thank you for a fun semester. I wish you all nothing but the best in the future, and I'm excited to watch you walk across the stage at Ravinia!

Sophomores and Juniors: You should be reading your book, or beginning your entries. But if you would like to just hang out with the seniors, that's ok today!

I hope you all have a good day, and I'm sorry I'm not with you today!
Mrs. Allen


Some options for today:

1. I was reading an article this weekend about how people remember high school as "the good ole days" but most people's memories are high school aren't very accurate. How accurate do you think your memories of high school will be? How accurate would you want them to be? Would you rather remember high school as it was, or better than it was? Discuss this as a group.
2. The New York Times this weekend has a column on Advice for College Students. Read through some and discuss interesting ideas with each other.
3. Send me an email with any thoughts you have on things I should or shouldn't do in Sociology next year. What activities / resources have you really liked, or not liked this semester.?
4. Sign yearbooks. 

Final Project Samples and Rubric

Sample Entry 1

Sample Entry 2

Rubric

Saying goodbye!

Understanding the Transition to College

‘Assume the Worst’: This Isn’t Your Ordinary Graduation Speech

Poor Kids

Poor Kids

The effects of poverty

First we will look at who the poverty line is determined in the U.S. by looking at slide 20 of the Social Stratification Powerpoint.

Next, we will look at the various ways growing up and living in poverty affects Americans. Read and take notes on the following 3 articles. Write one combined response to all three articles.

• 4 Men with 4 Very Different Incomes Open Up About the Lives They Can Afford
• Poor kids who do everything right don’t do better than rich kids who do everything wrong

• Is A Hard Life Inherited?

Deerfield Housing

Affordable Zion Woods apartments draw swift opposition
A cautionary tale of affordable housing
The Adopted Black Baby, and the White One Who Replaced Her