Your Street Address
Chicago, Illinois Your zip code
Date Due
Ms./Mr. [Insert Names of all your Junior Teachers], Junior Project Teachers
North Lawndale College Preparatory Charter High School – Christiana Campus (or Collins Campus)
1615 South Christiana (or 1313 South Sacramento)
Chicago, Illinois 60623
Dear Ms./Mr. [Insert Names of all your Junior Teachers]:
[At this point, please consider this letter the single-most important piece within your Junior Project. For your
typed cover letter, respond to the following questions, in any order, using the business letter format.
o How does your Junior Project, from your driving question to your essay to your formal presentation,
represent the highest point of your experience at North Lawndale? Explain in detail.
o Choose three ingredients (e.g., notecards, the essay, etc.) of your project that you appreciate for their
particular skillfulness: Using specific evidence from your project, explain how these three elements
evolved from the first draft to the final draft. Explain each fully.
o Overall, what do you think about your Junior Project? How strong is your final essay? How strong was
your formal presentation? How strong was your process, from the beginning to the end? Explain each
fully.
o What mistakes did your make over the course of the project, and how would you handle the situation
differently your senior year or in college?
o Explore the relationship between your topic and our society: How might the research in your Junior
Project be used to help change society for the better? Explain fully.
o How helpful did you find the following: Your research process? Reading your sources? Developing your
notecards? Writing your drafts? Preparing your PowerPoint or film? Rehearsing your presentation? Oral
and/or written feedback from your English teacher? From other teachers? From the Writing Center
staff? Explain each in detail.
o Through this Junior Project, what have you learned about yourself: your “detective’s instinct” with
research? your creative talent? your desire to “discover” through your research and
writing/creating/experiencing? your “writer’s discipline”? your perspective on life? your writing
process? Your public speaking? etc.? Explain.
o On a scale of 1-10 (1= easy 10=crying in panic), how stressful was the project? What strategies did you
use to manage stress?
o What one letter grade would you give yourself for this entire Junior Project? Explain.
o Anything else you wish to say? Feel free…]
Sincerely,
Your Signature [in black ink]
Your Typed Name