Sheckherd 1
Lukas Sheckherd
Dr. Preston
AP English Lit and Comp
This
class was a new experience for every one of us.
You gave us freedom of our education and helped us truly look into paths
for our future. A majority of the
students this year go to work with something they absolutely were passionate
about. Although I thought I had found
mine in filming again, I realized I was sadly mistaken. Although my masterpiece wasn’t something I
ended up being really passionate about, I still love what I took out of this
class and will use to tools to find my passion and pursue it to the
fullest.
This class has been something I never thought I would get
in the high school education system. This class was as rare as finding a needle
in the haystack. I never thought I would
be completely trusted by my teacher from day one. It was a phenomenal feeling and sense of
control over my learning. I got to read
books of my choice, ones that interested me, not books that I was forced to
read that made me hate reading. I’m starting to read on my own again and that’s
something I lost at the beginning of high school, because I was forced to read
things against my will. This is something I will appreciate for the rest of my
life.
Working one what people were
passionate about in these masterpieces was enlightening to me. Seeing a new side to each person I never saw
was amazing and although everyone had different topics for their projects, just
watching people talk about them showed me a new side. When Miles told the bagel and lox story, I
was dying of laughter because it was such a relatable reaction for me. I
believe a lot of them had the same theme.
That theme being unity. Will’s project, Sean’s project, Terry’s project,
Haley’s project, even mine had a theme of unity. Whether it was unity with the people around
you, unity with nature, unity in the world, or unity through social media, we
all were unified with someone or something.
I believe my hero’s hasn’t quite
begun yet. It begins in eleven days when I start the next big chapter of my
life and set step at United States Air Force Academy. I prolonged this call because I wasn’t sure
this is what I wanted, but after seeing the environment I will be in, I
accepted it. I do not know if I will be a hero, but I will
see. I think this next step of my life
can be represented by three different books.
Answering the call and choosing to go there can be related to The Hunger
Games and how Katniss volunteers as tribute.
Going in not know what to fully expect, what I am going to face, or what
I will get out of it can relate to Gregor the Overlander and his sense of adventure
in trying new things. Finally The Percy
Jackson series shows the hardships I have endured to get where I am today.
I know you gave all of us your
trust this year and each person honored it to different level. I know I may have seemed to honor it at a
half empty level, but I like to think of it as half full. I took what I needed out of this class and it
has helped me immensely this year. It
helped me love learning again, not being taught, but learning and teaching
myself new things. So thank you for everything.
