Welcome !
My name is Leslie Monagle and I teach English 9 and English Novels at Tenor High School. I am delighted to begin my fourth year at Tenor! In addition to teaching English, I co-lead the Art Club and Student Council. I am a passionate devotee of the visual arts as well as language arts, and had the wonderful opportunity to complete a workshop this summer at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., where I learned many strategies for integrating art into my English curriculum. I am extremely excited for the opportunity to share these experiences and use them to enrich my instruction. A Milwaukee-area native, I currently reside in the lovely neighborhood of Bay View.
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English 9
Welcome, Freshmen! English 9 is a course designed to help you excel in at reading and writing and to build the core skills necessary to succeed in future classes. In this class, you will work hard to become better readers and writers, while developing skills for studying, test-taking, note-taking, vocabulary usage, and research. Throughout the year, we will read a variety of texts such as short stories, novels, plays, poetry, nonfiction, and essays. The course includes frequent assessments in a variety of forms, such as quizzes, tests, projects, and different types of writing you will produce.
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English Novels
English Novels is an upper level literary analysis course in which we closely study the themes in literature. The course is inquiry-based, which means that we will use texts as a tool to tackle complex essential questions. Additionally, we will read and study various excerpts, poems, and scholarly essays to enrich and enhance our understanding of our focus texts. The goal of this course is to help you become a more active and critical consumer of texts, in addition to honing your argumentative writing skills.
-Quote by Allan Jenkins
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