1984 E-Text
If you need an electronic copy of 1984 for the essay due this week, you can find one here.
This is my eighteenth year at Helena High School, where I teach English III AP Language, AP Seminar, Honors English 2, Debate, and Speech. In my spare time, I enjoy grading essays, watching the San Diego Padres and Portland Timbers, and buying more books than I could ever hope to read.
If you need an electronic copy of 1984 for the essay due this week, you can find one here.
In the spirit of learning how to write some of these delightful essays this year, I am going to institute a one-time amnesty program for those of you who may have “forgotten” to submit your work through the first seven weeks of the year and a correction opportunity for those of you who have not […]
We will have an exam over The Great Gatsby on Tuesday. You should complete the book by Monday for class discussion and preparation for the test. In the downloads folder, you can find some background notes on the text, modernism, and Fitzgerald’s techniques. You can also complete the worksheet I gave you this week for […]
If you want to get the most important updates for the class and don’t check here as frequently as you should, you can follow the class page on Facebook. Items like assignments, notes, and vocabulary will still have to be located here, but you can be sure to get the most important updates from class […]
If you have missed a reading quiz or vocabulary quiz, you need to blog to make it up–within a week of missing the quiz. After one week, your grade for the quiz will become a sad little zero, clouding your grade in the class for now and your GPA for decades to come. There will […]