• Extra Credit: Asian Studies

    EC: East Asian Studies Three Part question. What day is Chinese New Year? What year will it be in China? What animal represents this year?  

  • Do you Fear Death?

    Image via Wikipedia originally Published January 2010 After reading Gilgamesh, I asked all of the students to write about their views of Death and Life. You know an assignment that sounds way to complicated for simple homework; thus, they all commune together in the slog of academia. Yet, for me I was almost completely befuddled…

  • English Writing Journals

    English Writing Journals List of reading topics for the semester List of personal topics for the semester Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Day Nevada Writing Project Random Writing Prompts Kevin Hodgson Writing Prompts tmblr Link to Mr. Wilson’s Book Reviews

  • US History Update

    US History: Scores for the End of Course exams are in. You can come by to see me for your grades and scores.

  • Random quote

    There is creative reading as well as creative writing.  — Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Sophomore English

    Class notes today. Students received copies of the first unit’s note outline. englishii-unit01 We discussed the concepts of an Epic Journey and its hero character. In addition we generated notes for Freytag’s Pyramid and notes on Protagonist, Antagonist, Foil , and static characters. Would like to thank 12writing.com for great additional resources. Began reading the epic of Gilgamesh pg 20-31.