Welcome to Mr. Smith's English 9 class! We will use this blog all year long to discuss issues that come up in class, complete homework, look up your grades, print out assignments, and to do many other things that we haven't even thought of yet. Make sure you check back to the site often so that you can stay on top of your work in this class. We'll spend most of the year working on writing pieces in various genres (memoir, short fiction, poetry, nonfiction, etc.) that we will publish in a class magazine and/or put online as digital stories. We'll also read many texts (some that I assign, and some that you pick, yourself), that will help you figure out how to improve your writing. Ultimately, however, you don't get better at writing (or anything, for that matter) by just talking about it. You get better at writing by WRITING, and we'll be doing a lot of that over the course of the year. If you already have any comments or questions, you may click on the "Comments" link below; just be sure to write your name as part of your response. Any comments made to posts on this blog are E-mailed to me and must be approved before actually coming up for all to read.
I'm looking forward to working with all of you this year!
