Welcome!

Hello! My name is Jill Wheeler, and I am a high school English teacher at Carlisle High School. With this site, I intend to post my thoughts about content that we are studying in my classes, invite discussion among my students, and provide useful resources.

Currently, I teach three courses:

Language Arts 10: This class is a mandatory course for all sophomores. The literature we study includes To Kill a Mockingbird and Julius Caesar. We write a variety of compositions, including a personal essay, an I-Search paper, a short story, and a literary analysis. A major focus in this course is speech, and we examine and discuss rhetorical technique, as well as present persuasive, expository, impromptu, and entertaining speeches.

Senior English (which is divided into Composition I and Introduction to Literature): Seniors may elect to take this course for dual credit through DMACC. In Comp. I, we review how to avoid common grammatical mistakes and work on organizing compositions with strong thesis statements and supportive evidence. Major assignments include a comparison essay, a definition essay, a career research paper, and a literary analysis. In Intro. to Lit., we use different literary theories to study Macbeth, Native Son, and various short stories and poetry.

and last, but definitely not least,

Creative Writing (my personal favorite): In this class, we immerse ourselves in creative compositions of all kinds: one act plays, screenplays, non-fiction zines, poetry, and novellas (a la National Novel Writing Month).

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