Hello, rising Juniors! Thanks for checking us out!

You’ve located our course website—technically our weblog—where you can become acquainted with what we do. Perhaps next fall you’ll do some blogging here, too. We welcome you to take a few minutes to cruise around and try to get familiar with IB English. Note especially the “Syllabus/Course Map,” and “Summer Reading” pages, and if you’re ambitious, the “About IB English” page. But the details can certainly wait; newbies are often a bit bewildered by IB at first, which is fine.

In IB English we study full-length works (see “The Works” for the tentative titles), so it is vital for you to be prepared for classes, keeping up with the readings and thinking critically about them. Class meetings will be mainly discussions (whole class and small groups) based on the assigned readings, in response to some provocative prompts (see “Discussions”). IB emphasizes creativity, too…you get to write, of course, but you might also produce artwork, make movies & presentations, and maybe even sing, to show what you know. Should be fun!

Note that IB English is paired with IB History…we meet every other day, per the A/B schedule.

If you have questions, e-mail me anytime at pnigro@rhmail.org, or come see me any day during lunch in A209.

See you soon!

Mr. N