ADVANCED ENGLISH

Class Introduction:

This is testing week. We will be completing our "Silent Book Report" presentations. All book reports including the written format are due no later than Friday.
Beginning Monday, 7 April we will begin a series on The Holocaust and Genocide. We will do a reader's theater of "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" along with viewing edited versions of either "Hotel Rwanda" or "The Last King of Scotland". We will also examine situations that currently exist in the world and how they are or are not like the Holocaust in WWII. The students will be working in threes with reading a particular Holocaust novel and presenting the most important parts to their classmates in a peer teaching exercise. Some of the novels that will be available for this exercise include: Number the Stars, Night, Shanghai Ghetto, Anne Frank and Me, Summer of My German Soldier, Farewell to Manzanar, and Aleutian Sparrow. We will end our semester with an examination of how the US attempts to solve issues that divide us. We will be reading court cases, viewing controversial issues and talking about the place of literature and art in making sense of issues that appear too hot to handle.

Stay tuned for more details as we map out the remaining weeks of the semester. We will be using poetry, music as poetry, narrative history, eyewitness accounts and documents to complete our studies.

Class News

October 19, 2010
All classes show great creativity and imagination !
English 9 is now doing short stories after some inspired Haiku's and Origami while studying Japan's literature. Advanced English students amazed everyone with their creative sequel presentations for "The Most Dangerous Game". Board games, posters, and movies are just a few of the great collaborati...
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