Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.
George Evans
Recent Events in the Classroom
Game Play and Final Drafts
English I students finally got the reward of their project labor: students played each others' Odyssey games. [gallery type="rectangular"...
Game Prep and Final Drafting
English I students worked on their Odyssey games -- the last day. Today, students played their own games for the first time to work out kinks in the...
Project Work
All students worked on projects today. English I worked on their Odyssey project, of which they will complete beta versions by the end of class...
Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.
Ray Bradbury
Experience
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Resources
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…
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.
BS (Class of 2024)
Mr. Scott’s English 1 honors class will be a very challenging class that will leave you feeling like your brain is dead and make you question yourself why you were even put in his class.
JS (Class of 2024)
If you have Mr. Scott next year and you are reading this, be prepared to take the hardest class you have ever taken. You will be overloaded with stress and all of your free time will be filled up with the homework you will have. You will be bombarded with work and articles and essays that you will not know how to complete. This will be one of the most stressful years of your entire school career.
DB (Class of 2024)
Watch out for Mr. Scott’s jokes: they are usually unpredictable.
AS (Class of 2024)
In Mr.Scott’s class you will be challenged in every way imaginable but it will make you a better writer and student.
DK (Class of 2024)
This class is not your average middle school class, but in a good, challenging way!
MD (Class of 2024)
This class will be the most brutal English class you will ever take.
BAG (Class of 2024)
[T]his class is by far the most challenging, overwhelming, and stressful class that you will ever take in your whole middle school career.
CR (Class of 2024)
Mr. Scott’s class is one of the hardest, yet most rewarding classes I’ve ever taken. After completing hundreds of ATOW’s and analyzing many texts, I can proudly say it’s all worth it in the end.
SBP (Class of 2024)
I warn you this class will be one of the most boring, work filled classes you have ever taken.
FD (Class of 2024)
I remember it like yesterday, finding out you have Mr. Scott’s English 1 Honors Class is not the greatest feeling in the world.
NB (Class of 2024)
Even though this class is very stressful Mr Scott is also going to do a great job preparing you for high school and you will thank him later.
VW (Class of 2024)
I know this class will be challenging and I know this class will work for you like no other but Mr.Scott will teach you so much and he will even be your favorite teacher. He seems scary and strict but deep down Mr.Scott is a teddy bear and he only wants what’s best for you.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Victor Hugo
Blog
Cemetery of Memories
The first time I approached the cemetery in Lipnica Wielka was November of 1996, and I headed up for my first experience with All Saints' Day in Poland. I took pictures and made mental notes for my journal: I left my apartment around 4:30 and headed up to the cemetery...
Trstená Supermarket
Just across the border from where I lived in Poland (Lipnica Wielka) and where my wife grew up (Jablonka) is a Slovak town called Trstená. We go there every time we visit family in Poland. I love Trstená because unlike much of Central Europe, it seems frozen in time....
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...
Happy Thanksgiving 2023
adsf The header image is an AI creation using the prompt "a turkey on a table looking at people about to eat it for Thanksgiving."
Counselors Behind the Line
Our school counselors served Thanksgiving lunch today. They look snazzy in their hairnets, don't they?
19
Today, my wife and I celebrate our nineteenth wedding anniversary. I'm not quite sure how she's done it, but I'm grateful she's put up with me for that long.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
