Welcome!

Welcome to all of my AP English Language and Composition students! I am incredibly excited about this class, and honored to teach it. I am also looking forward to getting to know each of you. It is hard to summarize all the things we will be tackling this year, so let me just say that you can expect to push your boundaries as a writer, reader, thinker, and citizen. We will be reading mostly nonfiction, but also some fiction and poetry. We will also be viewing and discussing political cartoons, fine art, photography -- art and expression, in other words, with messages to extract and analyze.

Oh, and you'll write. A lot. So I sure hope you like writing.

I also hope that as the year progresses, this blog will become a place where you (and your parents, too, for that matter) can:
• keep up with assignment deadlines, unit overviews, vocabulary lists, and daily assignments
• read or view supplementary texts or images
• post comments, opinions, and questions
• link to additional resources, such as online writing handbooks, national newspapers, research databases, and more
• get in touch with me
• make your own suggestions for additional links
• share ideas with one another

As you may have noticed, comments to this page will be moderated (by me) to keep things (reasonably) friendly and civilized, but unless you say something that is highly insensitive or inexcusably offensive, you can feel pretty confident that your comments will be posted. I will not edit comments that have been approved; whatever is posted can and very well may be read by everyone with access to this blog (which, really, is literally everyone with internet access).

That said, please take a moment to comment to this post by briefly summarizing what you hope to get out of this class (personally, academically, technically, intellectually, etc.). Thanks, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts!