It was a pleasure meeting everyone today!  I am excited to start our work this semester.  At times you may find the work to be challenging and at times down right painful, but if you survive the course, you will leave feeling accomplished and prepared for whatever challenges you are bound to face in the future. 

Please make sure your syllabus is read and signed for Friday, September 10, 2010.
Your other homework tonight can be found on the attached PowerPoint.
Mortimer Adler's essay "How to Ma...
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Welcome to English 10 Honors!  I am ecstatic to be joining you on this journey through your second year of high school.  A wise professor once told me that “School is Practice for Life” and ever since, this has become my motto.  Not only will the literature studied in this course expose you to realms of the literary world that you have not yet discovered, but the routines that you practice in this class and the discussions that you participate in will undoubtedly give you practice in livi...

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