Senior Quest

1
Senior Quest

• 2007

2
Why SQ is important

• Culminating experience
• Culminating standards
• Personally meaningful
• Student choice
• Showcase of skills
• Pride in accomplishment
• Tools for post high school

3
Five major components

• Project
• Writing/research
• Portfolio
• Speaking
• Community Service

4
Project

• 30 hours junior experience
• Self-designed
• Artifact

5
Writing/Research

• Annotated Bibliography (summary, analysis,
  significance of source)
• 8 sources
• Multiple (4) source types
• 2 primary sources-1 outside of school
• Significant Writing
• 5 pgs/1700 words 12 pg max-12 pt. font
• choice of mode
• Foreward (relationship between research writing)

6
Hypothetical Topic-Project-Research-Writing Ideas

• T Surgical doctor
• P job shadow
• R surgical procedures
• W observation journal
• T Automobile technology
• P rebuild engine
• R mechanical advances
• W research paper on impact of mechanical
  advances on automobile industry

7
Topic-Project-Research-Writing Ideas

• T heart attacks
• P volunteer at a hospital
• R causes, symptoms, treatments of heart
  attacks
• W write a letter to a family member who has
  heart disease / write a letter of
  goodbye/understanding to someone who has died as
  a result of a heart attack
• T architecture
• P design a building
• R styles/ movements
• W narrative explaining design

8
Cumulative High School Portfolio

• Academic-anything related to your coursework at
  Centennial High School
• Transcript
• Best work
• Academic awards
• Reflection
• Autobiography

9
Cumulative High School Portfolio

• Senior Quest-anything related to your Senior
  Quest coursework at Centennial
• Project documents project proposal, logs,
  evaluations, reflections, etc.
• Writing/Research documents letter of intent,
  writing, annotated bibliography, Foreward,
  evaluation, etc.
• Speaking documents speech outline/notes
• Community Service documents plan,
  advertisement, log, evaluation, reflection, etc.
• Miscellaneous documents acknowledgement,
  teacher recognition

10
Cumulative High School Portfolio

• Professional-anything related to your post-high
  school plans/selling yourself to colleges,
  employers, scholarship evaluators
• Resume, cover letter
• College essay, application, letter of acceptance
• Letters of recommendation
• Goal statements

11
Required Documents

• 16-20 Required Documents
• Letter of Intent Abstract
• Written Component Autobiography Logs
  (Project Community Service) Resume
• Ads (Project Comm. Service) Best
  Work Letter of Recommendation Acknowledgement Te
  acher Recognition Reflection
• 3-5 min. student choice documents other senior
  quest documents, awards, college letters,
  newspaper clippings, academic achievements,
  poetry, etc.

12
Speaking

• 8-10 minute presentation before an audience and a
  panel of judges
• Must include research, project, and connection
  between the two
• Community Service discussion is optional
• Must teach the audience

13
Community Service

• In groups (3-5 people)
• 15 hours
• Not necessarily related to topic/project
• Presentation of Community Service Project