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The Common Senior Experience
By Amelia Kirpatrick
The last year of highschool, seniors are required to complete an English course. There are two options. There is AP Literature and there is CSU Expository. In CSU Expo, the senior class reads a book related to a national or global issue. After reading, they are required to prepare projects within their own specific groups to help spread awareness of the issue. This is what's called the Common Senior Experience (CSE), as it occurs every senior year. However, AP Lit does not have to participate, but they are free to read the book within their own time or when the teacher assigns it.
What is this year’s Common Senior Experience about? For the class of 2024, seniors read a book called Dreamland in the first semester. This book, by Sam Quinones, discusses America’s opiate epidemic. The epidemic has been the country’s #1 public health crisis. After the 1st semester of reading, seniors are to prepare to create groups for semester 2. The groups they create will be permanent until the end of the school year. Seniors will have to work together to create three projects that discuss a certain topic to their main focus, the opioid epidemic, and to gain over 30 non-Olympian senior followers/audience members for each. The whole goal of these projects is to make an impact within the community.
Recently, the seniors finished their first projects. They are currently working on the second. Please make sure to support them throughout them all. The senior class needs as many audience members as they can get in order to spread awareness and make an impact. That being said, be sure to look for fliers, instagram posts, and announcements around the school and ASB website to learn more.
What is this year’s Common Senior Experience about? For the class of 2024, seniors read a book called Dreamland in the first semester. This book, by Sam Quinones, discusses America’s opiate epidemic. The epidemic has been the country’s #1 public health crisis. After the 1st semester of reading, seniors are to prepare to create groups for semester 2. The groups they create will be permanent until the end of the school year. Seniors will have to work together to create three projects that discuss a certain topic to their main focus, the opioid epidemic, and to gain over 30 non-Olympian senior followers/audience members for each. The whole goal of these projects is to make an impact within the community.
Recently, the seniors finished their first projects. They are currently working on the second. Please make sure to support them throughout them all. The senior class needs as many audience members as they can get in order to spread awareness and make an impact. That being said, be sure to look for fliers, instagram posts, and announcements around the school and ASB website to learn more.
