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Ms. Jaime Allesandrine

English Teacher

National Honor Society advisor J

Book Club founder and advisor J

Haddam-Killingworth High School

Room C101

(860) 345-8541 ext. 3101

Ms. A’s email: allesandrinej33@rsd17.org

Parents: Please feel free to email me anytime. I’m always glad to discuss my students’ progress.

*Classes for 2012*

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English 12H: We are reading Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried. Existentialism unit projects are due by Wednesday, 3/28, at the latest. Writing on The Things They Carried will be due the week of 4/2. English 12: We will have a test on Black and Blue on Tuesday, April 3. The test will cover the novel (take note of the motifs) as well as news articles that students will receive on 3/29. English 11: We are completing our study of Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. We are considering two primary questions: *In what ways and to what extent does Jim help Huck? *In what ways and to what extent does Huck help Jim? Revised final copies of writing will be due on Friday, March 30. We are also studying SAT vocabulary. English 10H (G period): We are writing close-reading responses about self-selected passages from Lord of the Flies. These will be due on 3/28. We are also holding our own March Madness Tournament on Cupcake English Blog! The response to Round Three is due on Wednesday, March 28. We will begin To Kill a Mockingbird on Thursday, March 29. Please email Ms. A with any questions about homework. Here’s the link to our 10H class blog: http://roomc101.edublogs.org/ J

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