Interesting Reads for 26 September 2014
Some interesting reads this week include a look at devolution and its causes, domestic violence, our life expectancy and more.
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.
Some interesting reads this week include a look at devolution and its causes, domestic violence, our life expectancy and more.
Tonight, we’ll open the 2014-season of the Wednesday Night Discussion Group with Why Nature Versus Nurture Often Doesn’t Matter by Michael White. Join us at Fireside Coffee at 7:30 this evening to discuss the article. Anyone is welcome to attend.
An interesting tidbit about our new friend F. Scott Fizgerald. He visited Montana in 1915, where he worked on a cattle and sheep ranch. A far sight from the fancy homes and parties of East Egg: In July 1915, a fresh-faced young man got off a train and presented himself at a working cattle-and-sheep ranch […]
Below is the list of questions that could potentially appear on the AP Language Wilderness exam. The test will have two portions: one section in which you identify the author of a passage and one section in which you write fully-developed paragraph responses to four of these questions. For the paragraph portion, plan to write […]
A couple of quick notes for the first few days this week. Make sure to submit your essay by 1:00 p.m. today and to complete Into the Wild by class tomorrow. We will have a test review session Tuesday night in Room 14 for the test on Wednesday. Wilderness unit test (over all the readings) and […]