| Welcome to Your English Class |
Let me first say, that I am both excited and honored to be your teacher this year. I value all of my students and look forward to getting to know you specifically. My door is always open to discuss what you have on your mind, either academically or personally.
My goal this year is to prepare you academically for what lies ahead and to inspire you to be lifelong learners. As your teacher, I try specifically to tie in the state curriculum with our current “pop culture.” I want you to make the “big connections” between what you study in the classroom and what is happening in the world around you. As always, I look for ways to engage both your intellect and enthusiasm in the daily classroom setting. Therefore, if you have any suggestions that can enhance our daily studies, please feel free to share them with me.
I can not wait to start our year-long journey together, and I am looking forward to seeing your smiling face every day!
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Welcome to your tenth grade English class. The purpose of this course is to provide you with integrated educational experiences in the language arts strands of reading, writing, listening, viewing, speaking, language, and literature. It is my hope that you will leave this course with effective reading and writing strategies, an increased vocabulary leading to improved articulation methods, and a life-long love of learning. I am looking forward to our year-long journey into the arts together!
Link to 10th Grade Literature |
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“Language is simply alive, like an organism. We all tell each other this, in fact, when we speak of living languages, and I think we mean something more than an abstract metaphor. We mean alive. Words are the cells of language, moving the great body on legs.” ---Lewis Thomas (b. 1913), U.S. physician, educator
This AP Language and Composition course is designed to be an equivalent to the introductory year of college composition course work. Therefore, it will include a variety of assignments designed to challenge and improve your own abilities to recognize and use language as a tool. To do so, you will engage in frequent writing assignments that will address a variety of purposes and audiences. Complex critical reading will also be a crucial component of learning to employ stylistic devices and will cover a variety of periods, purposes, audiences, and rhetorical devices.
Link to 11th Grade AP Language |
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Greenbrier High School
Natalie Brody
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