Students must write their first draft by December and complete their revisions by the end of January. In February, students will defend their research and findings before a committee of faculty, field experts and peers. And that's not all. Students will then be required to design and produce interdisciplinary multimedia demonstration projects that creatively interpret their theses. When all is read, researched, written, revised, rewritten, presented, defended, produced and performed, each East senior will leave school with a thesis portfolio.
East students start attending the school in the fifth grade.
It provides them with an opportunity to become impassioned with something that has piqued their interest during their academic time here at East. East is the first high school in Metro to offer the intensive course, she said, as a bridge into college-level reading, researching, writing and thinking. Not only are we teaching them to think about a variety of subjects but also to cross-connect what they've learned, to investigate their thinking in a very sophisticated manner, and then to express it in a written argument. After interviewing a Vietnam veteran for a class project, the honors student said, he got hooked on the topic. But I've been curious about how the people, from both sides of the battlefield, were affected by what they went through.