Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Week of January 17, 2012

Midterms for all students are this week.

We will continue with all of our novels at the end of the week/beginning of next week.

Thanks,

Mr. Hacker

Friday, January 6, 2012

Week of January 9, 2012

Happy New Year Everyone!

I hope you all celebrated the holidays with loved ones and enjoyed the company of family and friends.

Sophomore C-1 classes have started reading JD Salinger's classic The Catcher in the Rye, the story of Holden Caulfield, an angst ridden teenager deaing with his emotional issues.  Students will be finished with the first third of the novel (Ch. 1-7) by Monday and will have a quiz either Tuesday or Wednesday depending on the class period.  Students should also be tracking Holden's "symptoms" as they prepare to write a paper titled "Diagnosing Holden."

Sophomore Honors are reading John Steinbeck's classic Of Mice and Men and will be finishing at the end of this week.

Freshmen finished reading The Hobbit over vacation and will begin review work for their test this week.  They will also be preparing to complete a project on the novel, which is included in each student's novel packet.

Mr. Hacker