English

On Thursday, November 19, Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the U.S. from 1997-2000, visited Robin Neal’s senior elective on local living writers. The discussion ranged from his writing process, to his thoughts on the being the “official” U.S. poet, to students’ college choices. For a complete recap of his visit, see the news story on [...]

The power of social networking and web 2.0 was on display in English teacher Sarah Akhtar’s senior elective on memoir. Students were reading Mary Karr’s 1995 memoir The Liars’ Club and were so moved that they wondered if there was any way to get The New York Times bestselling author visit their class to talk about [...]

Student’s in Robin Neal’s Local Living Writers class have completed the lyrics to one of two melodies provided by singer-songwriter Alastair Mook. Mook visited the class in early October to share his writing process and inspiration. (See the original mashUp post.)
Here is Mr. Neal’s assignment:
Alastair urged us to play with the sound of language and [...]

Singer-songwriter Alastair Moock visited Beaver on October 1 as part of English Teacher Robin Neal’s “Local Living Writers” class. The 12th grade elective focuses on Boston’s writing scene — from novels, to poetry, to music. Moock discussed his creative process and performed one of his original songs.
As a follow-up activity, Moock gave the class two [...]

Nicole Lipson uses blogs in her “Shakespeare, Tragedy Tomorrow…Comedy Tonight!” 12th grade English class to facilitate class reflection and conversation. In this example she prompts students to respond to her post via commenting. Click here to see the original post and all of the comments.

Ms. Lipson’s post:
Hi all-
In a few days, we will be beginning [...]