Welcome to English!
English 11 is a yearlong class designed around the Indiana Standards. We will use a variety of materials such as primary sources, poems, novels, and speeches to teach English. Learning English in this way should help the students to understand English; its beginnings, changes, and future.
English 12 is a yearlong course designed to help you continue improving your abilities in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The goal of this course is to help you gain the skills you will need in the workplace or in college after you graduate. (Many people who think they are not going to college, will enter college later as adults because they find out that a college degree is needed to keep their job or to get a promotion.) Since we know that most, if not all, of what we teach you in high school will be obsolete in as few as six months, the most important skill for you to take from BHSN is the ability to learn on your own.
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Reading and writing are key to learning. Therefore, in this class, you will be asked to engage in reading a number of different kinds of materials. The emphasis in reading will be to improve your ability:
We will read some things in class together, but many things will have to be read outside of class.
Writing also helps you learn because it requires you to organize and state what you know and to develop new ideas. On the job or in college, you will be required to write. We will write a number of different things in this class, among them: essays, log entries, stories, poems, and so on.
You will also be doing presentations and speeches; some of these will be with a partner or a group; some will be by yourself.
Help
Time for extra help can be scheduled with me after school. However, you must schedule this with me; that is, make an appointment. Lunch meetings may be impossible since I have C lunch.