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Mrs. Ras' Classroom

  • West Albany High School
  • Albany, OR
  • More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.

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In English 10 Honors, a thematic focus we have structured our year around is Ourselves and the Natural World. While our textbook offers short stories and poems, we have been limited to texts from the past that have been discarded by other classes, or compiled years ago before class sizes grew and are, therefore, outdated and without a copy for each student. A full set of Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey will make it so each student can take the text home and read, and then come to class ready for discussion, activity, and presentations. This eliminates wasted class time that is currently spent reading a text that we do not have enough of, and then forcing students to do work at home rather than in their collaborative setting. The specific text was chosen for the figurative language, voice, sentence fluency, and personal style. As writers, all three of these are needed while we examine ourselves and the world around us. As high school students, the skills taught through reading this text will take them on to their loftier goals of AP courses and college essays by adding a richness not only in language, but syntax and purpose as well.

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In English 10 Honors, a thematic focus we have structured our year around is Ourselves and the Natural World. While our textbook offers short stories and poems, we have been limited to texts from the past that have been discarded by other classes, or compiled years ago before class sizes grew and are, therefore, outdated and without a copy for each student. A full set of Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey will make it so each student can take the text home and read, and then come to class ready for discussion, activity, and presentations. This eliminates wasted class time that is currently spent reading a text that we do not have enough of, and then forcing students to do work at home rather than in their collaborative setting. The specific text was chosen for the figurative language, voice, sentence fluency, and personal style. As writers, all three of these are needed while we examine ourselves and the world around us. As high school students, the skills taught through reading this text will take them on to their loftier goals of AP courses and college essays by adding a richness not only in language, but syntax and purpose as well.

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