On senior English...
Each senior English class is a literature and composition course designed to prepare seniors for the rigors of life and college. Using the common core the Bigfork English curriculum and my experience at University of Michigan, University of Montana and California University, Berkeley I have tailored the classes to give each student practice on each of the types of writing, reading and analysis they will see after high school, regardless of the classes overall subject matter. Each senior also completes a senior project, a four part project including a proposal, product, paper and presentation that must be passed for the student to graduate.
Useful Senior Links
The following are links to assignments that all seniors will be given throughout the year. They will also be handed out in class.
Socratic Seminar and SSR info
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“Our language is funny – a ‘fat chance’ and a ‘slim chance’ are the same thing.” |
“If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.” |
“Why do we have noses that run and feet that smell?” |
“English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway.”
Author Unknown
“England and America are two countries separated by a common language.” |
“‘I am’ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‘I do’ is the longest sentence?” |
“I like the word ‘indolence.’ It makes my laziness seem classy.” |
“Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.” |
“The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
G. K. Chesterton
“The quantity of consonants in the English language is constant. If omitted in one place, they turn up in another. When a Bostonian ‘pahks’ his ‘cah,’ the lost ‘r’s migrate southwest, causing a Texan to ‘warsh’ his car and invest in ‘erl wells.’” |
“What is the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef? Answer: feedback. Don’t forget that feedback is one of the essential elements of good communication.” |
“English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.”
Bill Bryson