The introductory unit to College Prep IV is titled “Life Almost Straight”. This title is appropriate for new seniors because they are getting everything ready for college and are trying to get their lives straight. The documents in the unit show how life can be crazy and hard to understand. Just like many seniors, they are trying to understand life and how it is “Almost Straight”. One piece of text in this unit is a painting named “Sorrow Teeming With Light” by Gabriel Shaffer. This piece has many different colors and objects floating around. There is a weird creature in the middle and faces in the background. This painting is very hard to make sense of, much like life at times. Many different understandings can come from it, depending
