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I am so honored to teach you this year, and I promise to go the extra mile to help you learn as much as you possibly can.
We'll stay busy, explore new material about our own culture and have fun doing it. My goal for you is to be as prepared for your next educational level as you can be by the end of the year. I hope that's your goal, as well. |
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10th Grade Literature and Compisition is busy! We get ready for PSAT, the SAT and next year's writing test while we have fun reading stories, poetry and essays from the literature book and some great novels. The first semester we will have a research project on Greek Drama while reading and studying Sophocles' ANTIGONE. Then we will read Ray Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451 and get "fired up" about censorship.
We'll also spend some time with vocabulary study. That's always good for us!
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Seniors! You have made it! Now all you have to do is finish Senior Project, have fun with all of our reading material and projects and you are out on your own--sort of! All deadlines are on our calendars; the ones set in STONE are:
October 20--Rough Draft is Due
November 17--Final Draft is Due
February 9--Portfolio and Product are due!
After Beowulf, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Shakespeare's Macbeth, you'll think Carpe Diem poetry is a piece of cake! And, we'll have fun with all of this! Vocabulary quizzes(SAT words)are every Friday--don't forget your flash cards!
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We are excited about all of the possibilities of this class. We explore the Old Testament during first semester, reading and re-reading the old stories and looking at them in the context of our history and literature classes and how these stories influenced the arts. Hopefully, using this knowledge will improve our application abd recognition of literary devices that will help in our understanding in other classes.
We will read other poetry, essays and the novel BILLY BUDD, by Herman Melville, as well as much of Biblical stories, songs, proverbs and laments.
Link to Bible in Literature |
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Greenbrier High School
Karen Hickman
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