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Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.

George Evans

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Completing the Scene and First Lit Circle

English 8 students finished up act 1 scene 1 of The Diary of Anne Frank, noting in particular the creation of a flashback with Mr. Frank's reading of the diary that morphs into Anne reading the...
Test and Hints

Test and Hints

English 8 students had a test today on subordinate clauses and pronoun/antecedent identification -- skills we used in tackling the Frederick Douglass text. English I Honors students worked on Romeo's final monologue in Romeo and Juliet, looking specifically at some...

Romeo’s Speech and Final Test Prep

Romeo’s Speech and Final Test Prep

English I Honors students finished up (almost) the analytic part of our Romeo and Juliet unit by analyzing Romeo's final speech. We'll finish up tomorrow, but kids need to do some homework related to it. English 8 students went over subordinate clauses one last time...

Transitions and Voice

Transitions and Voice

English I Honors students worked on a very tricky subject, something that's difficult to teach because one learns it, in general, by doing it: transitioning between big ideas in a paper. We went over some principles today and did some practice. Students will...

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

Ray Bradbury

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Article of the Week

The Article of the Week (AOW) is a year-long, on-going project patterned after Kelly Gallagher’s “Article of the Week” curriculum. It provides students with weekly critical reading, analytic, and critical thinking practice.

Lesson Plans

Benjamin Franklin famously said, “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!” While planning is important in all jobs, it is essential in teaching. All lesson plans are available for interested parties.

Class Notes

Here you’ll find almost all the materials used in class, including handouts, class notes, screeen-casts, and more. Students who have lost materials provided in class should find this particularly useful.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies … The man who never reads lives only one.

George R.R. Martin

Need to Contact Mr. Scott?

The best way to contact Mr. Scott is through email as he usually responds within twenty-four hours. Additionally, one could call directly at 864-355-6251. (Bear in mind this number goes directly to the answering service during school hours.)

About Mr. Scott

Mr. Scott and his children on Babia Gora in July 2022

One of three eighth-grade English Language Arts teachers at Hughes Academy, Mr. Scott has over twenty years’ experience in the classroom, including experience teaching English as a Foreign Language and working with at-risk youth.

Much of Mr. Scott’s teaching experience is international. For seven years, he taught English in Lipnica Wielka, a small village in the south of Poland. It was a constant challenge, but immensely rewarding…

 

The Sound of Music

One of Mr. Scott’s favorite things in the world is music. For the 2023-24 school year, he is making a playlist of some of his favorite music. The challenge: one new song every school day without repeating artists once.

Update: Already behind but still working on it…

Sharing a song does not equate to endorsing the musicians, other compositions they’ve created, composers, or anyone else connected to the music.

Working to improve students’ reading, writing, and critical thinking skills.

From Former Students

Every year, students write letters to next year’s class. Here are a few of the kind words they have said about Mr. Scott and his class.

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Victor Hugo

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Warszawa Centralna

Looking at some old pictures, I found a shot of Warszawa Centralna train station from about 2002. It was an exterior night shot, and there was little indication of what the station looked like inside. What it looks like now is vaguely similar, but there have been so...

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou

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