Senior Skills: Communicating through Speaking AND Listening
Being able to communicate with others verbally is one of the most important skills you can learn, and can improve your outcomes in all areas... Read More
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Senior Project Paperwork
As a senior, you will also have a complete a senior project. This constitutes 25% of your grade for this course, and is a sustainable... Read More -
Senior Skills – How To Take Effective Notes
Throughout this first week of class we have covered a lot of content - your summer reading novel, the early history of English in the... Read More -
Senior Skills – A New Way of Reading
As you may have already realized, senior literature will be a little different than your previous courses. While the larger focus on language use instead... Read More -
Old English – Beowulf
Last week we dove into Old English literature and analyzed not just the rhythm and structure of Anglo Saxon poetry, but the importance of the... Read More -
Old English – The Wanderer
Our first analysis of Old English will be the poem from the Exeter Book of Elegies, "The Wanderer". Most of the Old English poetry we... Read More -
The History of English – Anglo Saxons and Old English
As we begin this semester, working towards improving your own language use (spoken and written), it is important that we understand where our language comes... Read More -
Welcome Back Seniors!
Welcome to 12th Grade Honors English! You are about to begin your last English course as an HCHS tiger - I hope you are... Read More -
Diagramming Sentences: Verbals
Before you can effectively write using the English language, or even analyze how others use writing effectively, you need to be familiar with the basic... Read More -
Naturalism in American Literature
As we move away from the Realist period in American literature and into the 20th century, we approach the literary period known as 'Naturalism'. While... Read More
