Oh! The Places We'll Go

Congratulations!
Friday is our day.
We're off to Great Places!
We're off and away!

We have brains in your head. (From AP English, of course)
We have feet in your shoes.
We can steer ourselves in any direction we choose.
We're on your own. And we know what we know...SOAPSTones. Data Sheets, quotes, analysis, and writing.

And WE are the guys who’ll decide where we go.

We'll look up and down streets. 

Look’em over with care. 

About some we will say, “We don’t choose to go there.”

With your head full of brains and our shoes full of feet, we're too smart to go down a not-so-good street.

(A street that is not paved with AP English)

And we may not find any we'll want to go down.

In that case, of course, we'll head straight out of town. It’s opener there in the wide open air.

Out there things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy and footsy as us.

And when things start to happen, don’t worry. 

Don’t stew.

Just go right along. 

We'll start happening too.

Oh! The Places We'll Go!

We'll be on your way up!
We'll be seeing great sights!
We'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.

We won’t lag behind, because we'll have the speed. We'll pass the whole gang and we'll soon take the lead. Wherever we fly, we'll be best of the best. Wherever we go, we will top all the rest.

And will we succeed?
Yes! We will, indeed!
(98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.)

Kids, we'll move mountains!
So…be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ale Van Allen O’Shea, we're off to Great Places!
Friday is our day!
Our mountain is waiting.
So…let's get on our way!

I really think all of us in AP English are headed for great things, and I'm so excited to see what everyone is like after high school. Not only do I think this Dr. Suess excerpt from Oh! The Places You'll Go describes this moment, but I think the quote "don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened," also really applies. I know I'm always going to look back at my time in AP English and remember all of the great moments we all had. Even though everyone else in the school hated us, all of the students in AP English really do have a strong bond that really can't be found anywhere else. I'm truly going to miss every single thing about this class.