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

George Evans

Recent Events in the Classroom

Embedded Similes

English 8 students continued working on the quote embedding practice we began yesterday. In addition to our trip to the library, we moved students away from teach-centered and group-based work on...
Embedding Quotes and Gerunds

Embedding Quotes and Gerunds

English 8 students worked on embedding quotes in our CDs. We have be using a very simple format: "For example, the text says 'here is the quote.'"...

Socratic Reading

Socratic Reading

English 8 students began working on the first of three selections from The Circuit, Francisco Jiménez's memoir of life as a migrant child. We read...

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

Ray Bradbury

Experience

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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…

 

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. 

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!

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

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

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

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

Counselors Behind the Line

Our school counselors served Thanksgiving lunch today. They look snazzy in their hairnets, don't they?

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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.

Blueberries

Blueberries

We have eight blueberry bushes at the end of our driveway. They produce a lot of blueberries. It's always a sign that summer break has begun.

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

Maya Angelou

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