Welcome to Ms. Whisler's High School English Website
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau |
On this site you will find pages with class descriptions, assignment calendars, and downloadable handouts dedicated to the classes I teach: Portfolio I, Modern Literature, Mythology (through Virtual High School), and Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition (APE). There are also resources for students and teachers. Some resource pages require a password.
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Literature
- Helps us grow personally and intellectually
- Opens doors for us
- Stretches our minds
- Develops our imagination
- Increases our understanding
- Enlarges our power of sympathy
- Helps us to see beauty in the world around us
- Links us with the cultural, philosophical, and religious world we are a part of
- Enables us to recognize human dreams and struggles in different places and times
- Helps us develop mature sensibility and compassion for all living things
- Nurtures our ability to appreciate the beauty of order and arrangement
- Enables us to see worthiness in the aims of all people
- Exercises our emotions through interest, concern, sympathy, tension, excitement, regret, fear, laughter, and hope
- Encourages us to assist creative and talented people who need recognition and support
- Shapes our goals and values by clarifying our own identities—both positively through acceptance of the admirable in humans, and negatively, through rejection of the sinister
- Enables us to develop perspectives on events occurring locally and globally
- Gives us understanding and control
- Is one of the shaping influences of life