Tuesdays With Morrie

Jasmyne Keller Mrs. Hiler English12-6 17 May 2013 The Perks of Being a senior It’s finally your senior year! There are some perks to senior English…. Not everything will be fun and games. Every now and then you can have a little fun. This class is hard work and can be very nerve-racking. On the plus side it teaches you how to take life by the horns and most of all helps you grow as a person. According to “The Most Human Art: Ten reasons why we’ll always need a good story” stories help us deal with many things including us deal with suffering, loss and death. During your second semester of your senior English you will read a book based on a true story called Tuesdays with Morrie. This book is very inspirational and moving. This book is about a man named Morrie Schwartz who is diagnosed with a disease called ALS. One of his students comes every Tuesday and talks to him abut different things like love life and regrets. Eventually Morrie can’t hang on
Stories teach us how to be human by telling us the real things in life. For instance in Frankenstein a monster is made by Dr. Frankenstein and it escapes. He (the monster) goes through life trying to fit in not be an outcast and help others. He basically has to teach himself how to be human and live. According to “The Most Human Art: Ten reasons why we’ll need a good story” we are creatures of instinct. We learn how to behave. And that’s what the monster had to do (Sanders). After reading you will do a project on it that involves you understanding of the book. A couple of essays you get to write and express your thoughts are: Everything I ever needed to know…, Money and Me, This I Believer and many more. When writing a paper, novel or story you should use adult level thinking. Use smart words that aren’t to complicating but easy enough for people to understand. Put some feeling in your paper. Let your audience the reader know exactly how you