

Since this year my students are taking Modern World History, their Language assignments will coincide with this time period.

To that end, I am requiring the novels and reading them ahead of the students so that I can actually teach them. Which is great, but I am adding in grammar this year and also emphasizing reading, as well. (Zoom is not going to be my friend.) The basic curriculum is given to me, but it consists almost entirely of learning to write. Anticipating that I will be teaching this for three years total, I have decided to step up my performance from last year’s wide-eyed, scatter-brained (but funny) English teacher to an organized, crazy-about-language, poetry-performing English teacher. Of course, last year was rudely interrupted in March by a pandemic, and this year we are going to begin on Zoom. This is my second year teaching Literature/Language to a home school co-op class of middle schoolers.
