Mr. Paulson

Welcome to my classroom! I am excited to begin another year as a Healy High School English teacher for the 2021-2022 school year. This year I will be teaching English 8  and one college course, Composition 1.

If you have any questions or concerns you'd like to discuss, please feel free to email me at dpaulson@pierz.k12.mn.us.

Curriculum

English 8:

Firstly, English classes at Healy strongly emphasize the need for literacy growth. To achieve this, students will follow a Reading Counts model of independent reading regularly and track their own progress.

Next, English 8 contains multiple novel units, including the use of Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich, Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, and The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. Students will use these texts and others to better understand the concepts of characterization and motivation.

Additionally, this course has a heavy emphasis on paragraph structuring for writing development and will culminate in a final essay.

CLC College Composition I:

College composition is available to qualifying students to prepare for the rigor of writing college-level essays. The course will also incorporate a study of literature to model the quality of superior writing and to allow students to engage in a collegiate-level Socratic seminar discussion with the content. Vocabulary, grammar, and usage will be reviewed as will proper citation of sources.

Fall 2021 Class Schedule*
Period 1-- ENGL 8 (8:14-9:03)
Period 2 -- ENGL 8 (9:07-9:56)
Period 3 -- Pioneer Time (10:00-10:25)
Period 4 -- ENGL 8 (10:29-11:18)
Period 5 -- Lunch/Prep (11:18-12:36)
Period 6 -- Composition 1 (12:40-1:29)
Period 7 -- ENGL 8 (1:33-2:22)
Period 8 -- ENGL 8 (2:26-3:15)

​Spring class schedule TBD