Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.
George Evans
Recent Events in the Classroom
Starting the Play and Antecedents
English I Honors students worked on the opening of Romeo and Juliet. The opening pages are pun-filled and not all of the puns (or in fact, none of the puns) are immediately accessible to twenty-first-century fourteen-year-olds. With a little explanation, all was...
First Text Structures and Finishing Prologue
English I students finished the prologue of Romeo and Juliet. They discovered a number of patterns that helped them piece together the whole text and make sense of it. It's not that hard, is it, kids? English 8 students began working on text structures by focusing on...
First Day Back 2020
English I Honors students began Romeo and Juliet -- the greatest challenge of the school year, in many ways. We looked closely at the prologue: We'll be continuing tomorrow. English 8 students had an anticipatory lesson regarding the new unit on text structures and...
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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Victor Hugo
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou