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English 2 and Creative Writing in Room 318
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Students, do you need some help?
Arrange a time to meet before school, email me, call 355.3537, or request a Meet after school!
Welcome to my class site!
I grew up in the mountains of northern California. I earned degrees in Family and Consumer Science and English at San Diego Christian College and Humboldt State University. I've taught here at the home of the Rams for 33 years, on every floor as I taught FACS classes, Freshman Success, and now English. After going on a blind date while visiting family here in Simpsonville, my date, Dan, and I have been married for 32 years. Our son, Jackson, is in National Guard, so my heart beats camo. Go Army!
I first fell in love with reading and writing when my parents decided not to have a TV in our home; I feel because of their decision that I more quickly discovered books like The Hobbit, The Hiding Place, and Christy as well as the power of a personal journal. My first goal for every one of my students this year is that they fall in love with reading, or, if not in love, that they come to find some pleasure or escape in it; my second goal is that each student feels they can articulate how his or her skills were developed in written expression. Welcome to Creative Writing and English 2: It's going to be a great year!
Contact Information
Email is the quickest way to reach me: lvierow@greenville.k12.sc.us or my classroom phone at which you can leave me a message: 355.3537
Daily Schedule (1st Semester)
1st block: English 2 H
2nd block: Creative Writing
3rd block: Plan
4th period: Creative Writing
Daily Schedule (2nd Semester)
1st block: English 2 H
2nd block: English 2 H
3rd block: Plan
4th block: English 2 CP
Classroom Issues: I've found that classroom issues rarely arise due to what is happening in class; issues generally occur due to outside pressures. A quiet private conversation, with me or a guidance counselor, does much to restore a student. If the issue is classroom related, we'll start by discussing it, include a guidance counselor, if needed, and only in extreme cases issue a referral to an administrator.
Parents,
Would you be willing to help our class? We always need:
colored copy paper
fine tip colored pens for grammar corrections
tape for inserting work in grammar class notebooks
tissue, oh, so many boxes of tissue!
Thank you!
English 2 Long Range Semester Plan
English 2 Long Range Semester Plan
*We have organized the class with a world lit emphasis. The students are working on a "passport" around the globe, so units are planned with a global perspective.
Unit 1: Africa
Central Idea
Author's Purpose
Context Clues
Narrative
Short Story Elements
Parallel Structure
Theme
Unit Test
Unit 2: Europe
Research
Sources
Summary / Paraphrase
Research Project
Unit 3: The Poles
Poetry
Figurative Language
Blackout Poetry
Unit 4: Asia
Logical Fallacies
Argument
Rhetorical Strategies
Choice Board Project
Benchmark #1
Unit 5: The Americas
Text Structure
Short Stories
Tension and Suspence
TDA Practice
Benchmark #2
Humor, Irony, Satire
Drama
Unit 6: Australia
Review for the EOC / TDA
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