Senior Challenge: 40 Things Every High School Senior Should Do Before Graduation

by Kristin Green

As a veteran high school English teacher, I have helped hundreds of students go through their journey to adulthood. While observing this crucial time in their lives, I have come up with a list of forty different activities and challenges all kids should try to experience before they head out on their own. From learning how to do laundry to learning how to cook one special dish to going a day without a phone, this list covers many different aspects of adult life and independence.The average school year consists of forty weeks so at one task per week, it should be easy to complete all of them by the end of the school year, just in time to graduate into a brand new world. College bound or not, this list is for anyone about to embark on a new journey to the next stage of life.

42 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 21, 2023

About the author

Kristin Green first unearthed a passion for gardening while on the West Coast earning degrees in art and painting from the University of Washington. Now back on native soil, she is a full-time, year-round gardener serving as interpretive horticulturist, garden blogger, and photographer at Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum, a 33-acre non-profit public garden in Bristol, Rhode Island. She is also head gardener and curator of plants for her own .17-acre estate, where she writes a regular column called Down to Earth for local newspapers, and blogs, irregularly, at trenchmanicure.wordpress.com. Her writing and photographs have been published in Fine Gardening and other magazines.

Kristin also loves chocolate (the darker the better) and has a chair collection.