Secondary – January 13

In what era would you most like to live, or have lived? Why?

Secondary – January 12

“Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.” -Haruki Murakami, born on this date in 1949. Use examples from your own experience to prove this statement is false.

Secondary – January 11

Describe the most challenging experience you faced in the past week.

Secondary – January 10

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.” -Thomas Paine in Common Sense, published on this date in 1776. Explain why you think Paine is correct or incorrect.

Secondary – January 9

Describe the most important and interesting place that you intend to travel in your life, and why you want to go there.

Secondary – January 8

Elvis Presley was born on this date in 1935. Although one of the most successful musicians in history, Elvis never learned to read music — he knew, instead, how to mimic what he heard. Explain how you accomplish something everyone thinks you’re good at but at which you feel you’re faking your talent.

Secondary – January 7

Describe your vision of integrity and the best example of it you’ve ever seen.

Secondary – January 6

Samuel F.B. Morse and his partner demonstrated the telegraph for the first time on this date in 1838. Describe how you think people will communicate about 175 years from now.