Happy Autumn! As fall takes a turn toward winter, we are hard at work in the English department. I welcome comments and questions at any time. Please don't hesitate to contact me.
English 9 students are working on writing narratives with a revenge theme, after reading Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado." They are focused on building a storyline through use of a plot chart, creating suspense and using characterization techniques to develop characters readers will be involved with. We continue to develop our content area vocabulary knowledge.
Senior English students are hard at work reading George Orwell's Animal Farm. We have been discussing various forms of government and will continue some of these discussions when we move on to Orwell's 1984. Content area vocabulary is also an area of concentration.
ACT Prep students have been working on practice tests online. We have also been developing skills and strategies for attacking the reading portion of the English test in hopes of improving those scores.
The weeks are quickly moving by and I am enjoying every moment of this school year!