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Welcome to a new semester!    Everything feels all crisp and fresh – new vocabulary, new grammar skills, new literature!  Breathe it all in!

My Pre-AP classes will start things off with an author study of Agatha Christie.  We’ll read “The Mousetrap”, which is a lot of fun!  Who’s got what it takes to figure out who the killer is???? Time will tell…

Then we’ll move into something a little meatier – Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express”!  Written in classic murder mystery style, we’ve got THIRTEEN SUSPECTS stuck on a luxurious train headed for London.  I think you’ll all love it.  And I promise – the murderer is NOT who you think it is!

Pre-AP will also start getting into meatier analysis skills – prose, personal narrative, poetry, and rhetoric.  I’m stepping things up around here – before you know it, you’ll be knee-deep in Freshman Pre-AP English and I will give you the skills to ensure your success.  It’s tough, but I am confident that you can handle it!

My wonderful Regular Language Arts class will be enjoying Murder on the Orient Express (we call in MOTOE for short!) as well as “The Mousetrap”.  I hope to ignite some interest in Agatha Christie’s work and look forward to seeing what other titles you may choose to read!

Believe it or not, the test-that-shall-not-be-named is on our horizon.  We’ll be spending some time honing on on the skills that we need to do our very best on that important assessment!

As usual, be looking for lots of technology – I hope that we’ll be linking up with our friends in Alabama some time soon, and we’ll soon return to Classmarker.com for our grammar quizzes.  Watch for new forums on the discussion forum as well.  Mrs. Boydstun and I are busy brainstorming a REALLY awesome culminating project for our murder mystery genre.  I can’t wait!

TTFN,

 Mrs. S

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