Sophomore Year Poem by Mark J. Schulte

My daughter is a sophomore at Trinity School in NYC.

Conjugate the verb vivir.
Write an essay on King Lear.
Translate an Horation ode.
Read the novel, On the Road.
Why was Frederick called the Great?
(Quick! re-assess your mental state!)
Acceleration, force and motion,
proceed to next Newtonian notion.

Name a Euclidian axiom.
To whom did Robespierre succumb?
Cogitate on Don Juan's loves.
(Treat your teacher with kid gloves!)
Get the ball to Klara's zone.
Can you hear their goalie moan?
Refine your English dissertation.
Learn the pain of sequestration.

Second year is full of action;
(and full of chemical attraction!)
They're running from security;
but crawling toward maturity.
Certain modes must be re-thought,
if one would be uber or haute
With two of four you're half way done
Or have you, really, just begun?