Rachel's Post for 10H Period 4

If Charlotte Bronte's life was different, would she have even been a writer? If the perfect Victorian women is one who spends her time at home, making life comfortable for her husband, she wouldn't have had the time or motivation to write a book, right? Or, if she still chose to be a writer, would her stories be completely different? She might have just written poetry or short, light stories for those magazines women read back then. Just something to think about, since we know about Bronte's background, and why she wrote such dark, fairy-tale stories.

New Post from Rebecca in 11H

English class this year has been great so far, but we all know it's going to be different from the English classes we had last year. We are going to have to learn how to handle more homework. I thought it would be a good idea to have a blog where everyone can write about what techniques they used in order to handle English class last year. This may help give each other new ideas for making homework less of an ordeal.

New Blog Question from Alexa in 10H

If Jane Eyre was never loved or wanted as a child, how do you think thiswill affect her relationships with others as she becomes an adult? How wouldthis "unwanted-ness" be dealt with by someone living in our time?

Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa

For all of my 10H'ers out there, I would like to extend my apologies. If you didn't submit your summary today because you thought it was due on Friday, you were "kinda" right. I went back to the website and saw that I marked the handout that it was due Friday. So, if you forgot to hand your piece in today, hand it in tomorrow - no problem.

The rest of the homework for the week should be self-explanatory. The link to do tonight's homework is on the links page and it's called "launch pad".

The blog on "meaning" (my last post) is getting quite interesting!!

See you tomorrow for some grammar! = )

To Read or not to read....

Someone in class brought up the question: do authors intend for us to read so much into their stories? In other words, do they want us to be thinking of themes and symbolism, or are they just writing their stories for fun?

What do you think?

Mrs. L

I think the Blog might be my favorite thing!!

So what do geeky English teachers do on the weekend? Hmm...check the blog?!?

I have really enjoyed reading all of your comments and I think it will help me a great deal with designing some of our classes. I am having a little bit of a hard time with everyone's name, so I hope you will all give me a little help next week...

Enjoy the weekend!

How many more days do we have until summer??!! ; )

Hey Everyone,

Thanks for such a great first week of school. Although it's been a hot one, I think this first week of school has been pretty good! We're also starting school with some of my favorite books and short stories, so I am really loving it! I hope you'll use the blog to really talk about things that we're doing in class and help each other really challenge ourselves with regard to our thinking.

In class today, I had a few students really make me re-think some details from the novels...so thanks!

Make sure you stay dry this weekend...I hear Hurricane Hannah will be dumping some serious rain on us....

Mrs. Lindell

We Survived the First Day of School

Hello Everyone...

So this is the first post to our blog this year. Since most of you are new to blogging I thought I would do the first posting myself and have you all respond to it at school. As the new school year begins, I find myself thinking about how I can make this year a good one for you and for me. What do you think we should be doing differently this year than you did last year? What would you like to do in class (read, do as a project, discuss as a topic) that you haven't had a chance to do before? Are there any books, poems, short stories, etc that you would like to try? Do me a favor and make a comment to this blog so I can know what you are thinking!

See you in school!

Mrs. Lindell