Greetings and Salutations CGCS Students and Parents;

 

Many changes are coming at Country Gardens, and the opportunities are Legion.  Not just in the school grounds, but in the classes I am teaching as well.

The coming school year in English will see a more developed structure then the previous year, with books paired together based upon a specific theme.  In the second year of my instruction at this educational environment, I look forward to providing greater opportunities for hands on learning.  Any chance we can take in which what we read comes to life, or brings greater understanding for each of us is one which must be taken advantage of.

One of the better things, is that I have gotten to know many of my students, and in spite of the craziness that we all get involved with sometimes, we still make exceptional progress as a community.    

Look forward and be prepared to participate in a number of things this coming year.

Language Arts/English/Literature

Dramatic Acting
Debate
Public (Classroom) Presentations
Craft and Art development (This is especially true for books like "Walden", "The Inferno" and "The Hobbit"
Group Activities (Build your own Dictatorship

Journalism

This past year, we had a significant challenge of completing an edition of the newspaper.  With this in mind, those who enter the Journalism class will begin the first several weeks learning about the following things;

Journalistic Writing
History of Journalism
Editing
Objectivity

Duties in the school newspaper will be given out and we will be expected to have a deadline for our first paper by the week before our first break in October.  After that, we will be completing a paper each month.  The school newspaper "The Peacocks Feather", is not just for the High School.  The Newspaper is meant to represent the entire school, and tell both students and parents about things that are happening in school and in the future. 

 

I look forward to seeing each of you in August, and plan to work with you all to make this a great year.

 

 

Mr Humphreys

 

ASSIGNED TO: Language/Literature (12th Grade), Language/Literature (11th Grade), Language/Literature (10th Grade), Language/Literature (9th Grade), English/Language Arts (8th Grade)