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Maria and I taught a lesson to Mr. Phillip's Honors British Literature class. The experience was overwhelmingly pleasant!

Maria and I were going to prepare a plan around the Cantebury Tales Prolog. One day while I was observing, however, I noticed that during their free time many students were working to complete their graduation projects and college application essays. All in all, they seemed very focused on things involving graduation.

When I was a senior, I felt completely lost, scared, and nervous. I had a HUGE question mark above my head, and was waiting for it to fall down and knock me out. It wasn't all that long ago, either. Maria and I decided that since the students seemed wrapped up in thinking about graduating, a lesson that was relevant to this point in anyone's life would be very appropriate.

Dr. Roggenbuck sent our writing center training class a really delightful text at the beginning of this semester, and I thought of it immediately when I was thinking about the students in Mr. Phillip's class. The text is titled, "Advice to Graduates" and it was written by George Saunders. We also included a video cal


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