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STHS Senior Seminar:

__Why is Senior Seminar a graduation requirement?__ Given that during my high school career I have been taught: skills, habits, processes, concepts and information across the curricula, it follows that I will be comprehensively assessed on how I plan my goals, manage my time, organize and evidence subject notes (portfolio); access and interact with the community of my subject (project); and comprehensively manipulate knowledge in which I have a genuine interest and apply academic skills and habits to communicate the knowledge through text-based, verbal and visual manners (research paper & presentation).

Refer to the following resources to watch and listen to video perspectives of former Senior Seminar students and to the typed perspectives of former Senior Seminar students.

__What is Senior Seminar?__ Senior Seminar is a course for which I have to select a subject of my interest whereby I am required to type more than five pages of research content. The overwhelming majority of student papers which have been high achieving have been approximately between eight and thirteen pages of typed content including the introduction, thesis, supportive bodies and conclusion. I am required to communicate more than a fifteen-minute presentation (by utilizing power point and other visuals). The majority of high-performing presentations run for a duration of eighteen to twenty-four minutes. I am expected to interact with an individual or group of people who are in the community of my selected subject as the project with evidence (pictures, video, audio of the on-site, face-to-face event), and organize my evidence of planning and progress as a portfolio (three-ring binder of hand-written or typed materials). Throughout the Senior Seminar process, I will determine goals, identify critical tasks, establish feasible goals and devise efficient timelines. I will collaborate with peers and adults, confer with my Senior Seminar teacher. To further, I will conduct self-analysis to focus on my strengths and consider my areas of improvement. During Senior Seminar, I will create a product which represents possible solutions to a problem, analyze a dilemma from multiple points of view, or develop an idea in an original and thoughtful manner.

__Who is involved with Senior Seminar?__ In addition to me being involved with Senior Seminar, other people include: an assigned course teacher, the research staff of the library, a mentor selected by me, my parents, my peers, and a member(s) of the community of my subject.

__When does Senior Seminar happen?__ Senior Seminar is scheduled during one semester of my senior year, on a meeting schedule of every other academic day.

__Where does Senior Seminar occur?__ Senior Seminar occurs in high school classrooms, library, large-group-instruction room, at home, on-line, the telephone, and in the field of the subject.