Ah…gotta love short stories!

Ah, so while I can’t teach Great Expectations, I hope you enjoyed getting to cut your teeth on it just a little.  It’s a WONDERFUL story!  Please try to get into the habit of annotating each story that crosses your desk.  It’s a useful tool that will help you have a conversation with your text [...]

Welcome Back, you turkeys! (ha ha)

(sigh)…I hope that you all had an amazing, restful week with your families.  I know that the next several weeks are going to FLY by! 
Pre-APeeps:
 I am so excited to be reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit!  Most of what we will be doing with this novel will be completed independently – I hope that you guys [...]

Yo Yo My Pre-APeeps!

I hope that you all enjoyed reading and annotating “The Moustache”!  I stumbled across that story while at a Pre-AP Conference at TCU and absolutely loved it. If you didn’t happen to finish reading & annotating the story in class Friday, don’t worry – you’ll have some time to finish up on Monday. 
 I bet you’re [...]

Annotate, annotate, annotate, tate, tate!

Hello Pre-AP!   I hope that you guys digested the excerpt from “Great Expectations” that I handed out on Friday, and I can’t wait to see how you’ve totally written all over it!   So what do you all think about that Miss Havisham?  Told ya she was an interesting character!
After a little more annotation practice – [...]