Mr. Drury's English Class

Week of Aug. 26 Newsletter Honors English 2 This week we will start discussing various aspects of our summer reading book The Road as well as the dystopian genre in general. We will also start to examine the importance of words by analyzing tone, mood, diction, denotation, and connotation. Later in the unit, we will apply these skills and more for textual and visual analysis. This will be crucial for our first reading: the graphic novel Persepolis . Also, be sure to turn in the signed page from your syllabus as well as bring your classroom materials!  English 4 This week we will start our poetry unit! We start with poetry in order to learn and start practicing deconstructionist methodologies utilized in interpreting various meanings in literature, as well as practically any other form of art. Students will learn how to break a work of art into several little pieces of information and try to develop an interpretation that weaves the pieces back together. These strate...

Welcome to the 2019-20 School Year! I am super excited for school to start this Wednesday! Open house had an incredible turn out allowing me to meet over 60 families! These first few days of school will be spent discussing our course syllabus, emergency procedures, and playing a fun game to get to to know a little bit about each other! We will also be on a modified schedule for the first three days to ensure everyone has the appropriate schedule as well as to discuss school-wide policies. Below is the schedule for the first three days of school: 8:45-9:15a - CARD Time (Report to Advisory) 9:20-9:40a - 1st Period 9:45-10:40a - 2nd Period 10:45-11:40a - 3rd Period 11:45a-12:20p - CARD Time (Report to Advisory) 12:20-1:45p - 4th Period (And Lunch) 1:50-2:45p - 5th Period 2:50-3:45p - 6th Period Honors English II Make sure to have read The Road by Cormac McCarthy for our summer reading! We will start analyzing parts throughout the book next week and will hav...

NTI Work: Day 6 Below is the day 6 NTI work for both Eng 2 and Eng 4 classes. English 2 will complete the article over the Tiananmen Square Massacre (relating to civil disobedience) and English 4 will complete the article on Stanley Williams (related to gangs). Make sure NTI Day 5 is turned in when we return on Monday! NTI Day 6 will be due by next Thursday! There is no school next Wednesday or Friday so, with another short week, make sure you are not falling behind on work! English 2: NTI Day 6 English 4: NTI Day 6

Below are the links for five days worth of NTI work. For English 2 classes, there is one link that will bring up a .pdf with all five days put together. For English 4 classes, there is a separate link for each day that will bring up a .pdf of that day's work. Watch the news closely to see if a snow day is considered an NTI day or not. If so, you will complete one day of work per each NTI snow day IN ORDER! You have three days to turn in work starting on the first day we return back to school! If there are any questions, email me or contact me via Remind101! Matthew Drury SCHS English Matthew.Drury@scott.kyschools.us English 2 NTI Work Days 1-5: Click Here English 4 NTI Work Day 1: Click Here Day 2: Click Here Day 3: Click Here Day 4: Click Here Day 5: Click Here