I am really looking forward to our field trip this coming Friday! We will be attending a performance of The Importance Of Being Earnest at the Campus Theatre in Denton. The students have been doing a great job reading the play aloud in class, and I have loved hearing the different accents and voices they are using to make their parts stand out! I think that seeing the play performed will make it come alive for them even more, in addition to being a great cultural experience!
My language arts class finished taking a practice SAT this week. After reviewing their scores, I will make individual plans for the students, so we can work on any problem areas. The class is working really hard, and I am so proud of their dedication!
In humanities class, we are nearly finished with our picture studies of Paul Cezanne's Still Life With Apples. The students' work will be on display at Barnes And Noble this Friday for a fundraiser, so make sure you check it out!
Well we certainly had an interesting first week of school! Since the flooding prevented us from doing the majority of our planned lessons, we will resume them this week. I was very impressed though, with the enthusiasm that the students showed for reading their parts of The Importance Of Being Earnest aloud. They got off to a very fun start! I am also in the process of planning a field trip to see a performance of The Importance Of Being Earnest, which I think would be a great addition to our classroom reading.
Here are some pictures I took of my homeroom class on our first day of school - the students are enjoying a welcome-back breakfast while going over their schedules and basic school policies.
I'm looking forward to getting a lot of work done this week in all of our classes. Hope everyone is ready to really get into it!
Hi! I hope that everyone has enjoyed their summer, and is rested and ready for the school year to begin. Our family has had a wonderful summer, as we welcomed our newest daughter, Lainey, into the world!
I am very excited about this school year, and we are going to start off with somegreat projects! As your child's English teacher, I will begin with the subject of Comparison in our writing classes. By studying comparison, students learn to think more deeply about the topic of their papers, which enables them to develop well-argued essays. In our literature classes, we are beginning the year by reading The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. This is a very funny play, and the students will tale turns reading different parts aloud in class. Not only will this play give the students a great introduction to the time period we are studying, but it will provide a lot of opportunities to learn new vocabulary, and to practice reading aloud with expression. Any students who would like to earn an Honors Literature credit will also read The Picture Of Dorian Gray independently and write an essay.
I will also be teaching a portion of our afternoon Humanities class, focusing on art and music appreciation. In music appreciation, we will be listening to the works of Claude Debussy. For art, we are going to begin by studying a still life painting by Paul Cezanne.
This picture study will be on display in Barnes And Noble on September 23 for our school fundraiser. After studying a still life by a master painter, the students will then create their own original still life paintings.
I hope everyone has a great first week of school. If anyone needs to contact me for any reason, my e-mail is nicole.hallfor@gmail.com and my cell phone is 817-372-0179. I would love to talk with you!
