Mr. Drury's English Class

Graduation Announcement Plans for this year's graduation have been emailed out to all school staff as well as the Georgetown News-Graphic. Below is the email sent to me along with a link to the Georgetown News-Graphic article regarding graduation: The Email Sent to All Staff Principals from Great Crossing High School, Phoenix Horizon Community, and Scott County High School presented a unified and thorough plan to members of the Scott County Board of Education in a special-called meeting on April 28 to discuss graduation.  Principals developed the three-prong plan to meet the requirements of government and health officials with consideration to the preferences stated by students at each school. First, all three schools will employ the service of Herff Jones to develop a professional virtual graduation program.  The company has years of experience and produces a high quality product that will include a separate graduation program for all three schools....

NTI Prompts for May Directions For each NTI day, choose ONE JOURNAL to respond to. If there is only ONE, you will respond to that journal. When you are finished, you may submit it via email or by sharing a google doc. If you have questions or concerns, feel free to contact me by email or Remind! Please include the following with each submission: Name, Date of NTI Work, and Class Period. May 4th (Monday) Choose one of the prompts below: Choose a color that describes how you feel today, and explain why this color is the best explanation of the feeling. Find someone who chose the same color, and compare and contrast your reasons. Describe the best memory you made at Scott County High School this school year. Be as descriptive as possible. May 5th (Tuesday) Choose one of the prompts below:  “We can shoot rockets into space, but we can’t cure anger or discontent.” -John Steinbeck. Which do you feel Americans should invest more in: space travel or mental health? Ex...

NTI Days 29-33: Apr. 27 - May 1 Learning Targets: I can read closely and cite specific textual evidence to support conclusions (R.1) and examine the development of characters or events (R.3). Directions This is the same as least week, except that there are different prompts! From Monday to Thursday, select a new book to read and record what pages you read each day. Try to read for approximately 20 minutes per day. On Friday, select any TWO of the prompts below to complete. Your response should be a solid paragraph per prompt (about 1/4 of a page per response for a total of 1/2 of a page). Please email or share your completed work to me on Friday using the template below. Prompts: Character Description: You notice a detail about a character (what he or she looks like, thinks, says, or does). Why is it important? What does it reveal about the character? Mark the Motivation: You realize a character's motive(s) (what a character wants). Explain the motive(s) and it...

Adopt a Senior Facebook Group Below is information about the Adopt a Senior group on Facebook. If you are interested, create a post with senior pictures, baby pictures, etc. and a short bio of yourself. If you have not been adopted, write "Not Adopted" at the top of your post. Once you are adopted, change your post to state "Adopted" at the top. This seems like a really cool idea! Let me know if you have any questions! Group Name : Adopt a Senior (Georgetown) Scott County Class of 2020 Description from the Group : As a way to help celebrate the Senior Class of 2020, we have created this group for the community to Adopt a Senior and bless them with love and kindness! This is a difficult time for everyone, especially our seniors. They will be missing out on prom, senior trips, and recently learned they will not be able to walk the line at graduation.  Taking from the group, Bless-a-Senior 2020 the following is posted:  Graduates and Parent...

End of Year Updates Schools across Kentucky will remain closed for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year. We will continue with NTI days until Friday, May 15. Below are some important notes and considerations regarding this information: The administration is collaborating with student leaders regarding how to celebrate the graduating class of 2020. More information will hopefully be released this week or next week. I will post next week's NTI work tomorrow. It will be similar to this week's. Later this week, I will post the NTI work for the rest of the school year. It will primarily consist of reflective journal entries regarding the current epidemic. I am striving to keep NTI as stress free as possible while also being meaningful and relevant. Late work should be turned in approx. one week before the end of the school year (around May 8). I do not know when grades are due. NTI will go to the last day; however, try to catch up on late work with plenty of time to ensur...

NTI Days 24-28: Apr. 20-24 Learning Targets: I can read closely and cite specific textual evidence to support conclusions (R.1) and examine the development of characters or events (R.3). Directions From Monday to Thursday, select a new book to read and record what pages you read each day. Try to read for approximately 20 minutes per day. On Friday, select any TWO of the prompts below to complete. Your response should be a solid paragraph per prompt (about 1/4 of a page per response for a total of 1/2 of a page). Please email or share your completed work to me on Friday using the template below. Prompts: Interesting Intro: You think the author’s introduction is interesting, clever, or engaging. Tell what technique the author used and why you think it is effective. Spot the Setting: You notice a part that refers to the place or time of the story. Why is it important? Significant Passage: You realize a certain part in the text is important. What does it mean? What does it ...

NTI Days 19-23: Apr. 13-17 NTI 19-20: April 13-14 For Monday and Tuesday this week, please complete the survey below. At the end of each school year, I ask all students to complete a brief survey over my course. You do NOT have to provide your name. Please respond honestly and with as much detail as possible. I take your feedback seriously and continuously strive to improve as a professional. Your responses will have an impact on how I teach next year. Lastly, this is only for my personal use and is not shared with the school or administration. Only I will see your responses. Student Survey Link: https://forms.gle/FSKgv4ks4UuQU5MP6 NTI 21-23: April 15-17 For Wednesday through Friday, the entire school will provide time to make up late NTI work. This is also an excellent time to make up any late or missing work in general that you may have. If you wish to make up late work, feel free to email me and I will send you the work along with directions!

NTI Days 14-18: Apr. 6-10 Historian Journal Prompt For this week's NTI, put yourself in the role of a historian. You will write a journal detailing what you are seeing in the news, how the world, how our nation,  and how your friends, neighbors, and family are responding to this pandemic. You are creating a primary source that could be used by people in the future to learn about our lives during this crisis from your unique perspective. Be authentic, honest, and reflective. Consider these guiding questions or any variation of them as you write (you do not need to answer all of these!): What did the government announce/declare/implement today or recently? Does it make sense? Does it impact your life? How did you family respond? What is open in your neighborhood? What is closed?  How is day different from yesterday for you, your family, our nation, the world? Did you see anything today in person, in the news, or on social media that gave you hope or anxiet...

Important Updates - Please Read During the break, more information has been released regarding our school's closure, graduation. and NTI. Please read all of the information below. This is extremely important for both students and parents! School Closure Due to state and federal recommendations, Scott county schools will continue to be closed until May 1st rather than the original date of April 20th. However, given that these dates are continually delayed and that others schools outside of Kentucky have ended their school year, prepare for the possibility that this may be the last day of our school year and that we might not return to class. As a result, if you are currently failing any courses, it is imperative that you make up work and reach passing status prior to this date.  For those seniors that were recommended for Senior Project Success, our online credit recovery program, but decided to make up missing work, you need to email me ASAP. I have received ZERO email...