welcome!

This is our space to share ideas, collaborate on projects, and reflect on the themes of our 10th grade honors World Literature course. Adding content and sharing has never been easier! We will build the knowledge on this site together by contributing to online discussions, sharing our research, and through creating and and posting to your personal blog as a way to showcase our course creations.
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Overall, this site should help us reflect on the themes and goals of the 10th grade English course, celebrate our accomplishments, and streamline how we learn and share information.

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Students and parents can sign up to receive a daily text message of our homework by texting the message @6497b3 to the number 81010.
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social contract:

Respect-
  • When you interact with others either in class or online, it is important to be respectful; be respectful of other people and respect yourself. This means that personal attacks, inappropriate language and content, insults and harassment of any kind are strictly forbidden. This online class site is an extension of our physical classroom. Ask yourself if your comments would be acceptable in our physical classroom setting.
Rigor-
  • Before posting a comment, question, or blog entry, ask yourself, "will this forward the discussion we are having?" Your thoughts and ideas should be supported, and you should be using specific details to illustrate your ideas. Your posts should build on the discussion by responding to comments other students have made on a particular subject.
Grades-
  • Yes, you will be graded on some of your contributions to this site. What does this mean? Your blog entries and online discussion posts should be thoughtful reflections, interesting ideas, and discussion provoking comments related to our texts. You will be told in advance which posts will be graded and how they will be assessed. Be sure to proofread before you post.


​Latin root of the week:


​what we're working on now

Students in our 10th grade English class are creating their online writing portfolios this week.  Over the course of our semester, students will use their portfolio websites to showcase the variety of writing pieces we have crafted in our class, including creative pieces, narrative essays, blogs, analytical essays, and more.

​Here's how we're getting started:

​Check back soon to find links to our online portfolios!