English 11 Homework for Friday, Jan. 9:

Review your Portfolio tonight, at an easy pace,  to remind yourself of where you have been this semester in English. Everything we have read, talked, and written about can help inspire you in this very personal assignment.

...From the horses who returned to their companionship with man, after he almost annihilated nature with his bombs,... to our increasingly man-made destruction of the biosphere that created us, and is the only thing keeping us, and all species alive,...to the stories of young boys and what they learn when they are living in war zones,... to a dystopian state that shows us how mindless we can be, but also how much courage we really have to recognize the truth, to change ourselves, and to change the world,... to poets who push against the powerful forces that would prefer a "cement continent" promoting "imbecile illusions of happiness" to keep us "happy" and "free",... and, of course, to poets who remind us we must be "faithful to each other" on this "darkling plain",  if we want to turn the tide and create a world that gathers us together into "a bright girdle furled", "a land of dreams" that is "so beautiful, so new" we can call it home.

You are the protagonist, now. It is your world now. Who are you? And where will you take us? How and Why? Your values will direct you.