Final+Independent+Reading+Project

= Here it is: your final assignment!! (And one final poem, below.) =


 * Independent Reading Project [[file:Final Project.docx]]**
 * Book Selection Guidelines and Author List** [[file:AP contemp authors list.doc]]
 * Literary Criticism** [[file:Literary Criticism schools.doc]]

25th High School Reunion
**by Linda Pastan **

**We come to hear the endings** **of all the stories** **in our anthology** **of false starts:** **how the girl who seemed** **as hard as nails** **was hammered** **into shape;** **how the athletes ran** **out of races;** **how under the skin** **our skulls rise** **to the surface** **like rocks in the bed** **of a drying stream.** **Look! We have all** **turned into** **ourselves.**

"25th High School Reunion" by Linda Pastan, from //Carnival Evening 1968-1998: New and Selected Poems //. © W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.