Back To School!

Mrs. Hallford's Newsletter

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 some great 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!

God bless!

~Nicole Hallford