Let's read and analyze great literature! We will also write well-supported arguments, explanatory essays, and narratives. We will learn to appreciate, analyze, and write our own poetry. We will explore and learn by participating in the process of research. Finally, we will learn the conventions of our language in order to be powerful and effective communicators. Let our adventures begins!
Students will learn and thrive in a dynamic learning environment where they will regularly use the four Cs! Creativity Collaboration Critical Thinking Communication
Perseus by Robert Hayden Her sleeping head with its great gelid mass of serpents torpidly astir burned into the mirroring shield-- a scathing image dire as hated truth the mind accepts at last and festers on. I struck. The shield flashed bare.
Yet even as I lifted up the head and started from that place of gazing silences and terrored stone, I thirsted to destroy. None could have passed me then-- no garland-bearing girl, no priest or staring boy--and lived.