Welcome to your English class! I hope that each of you are successful this year and develop better reading comprehension and writing skills that will carry you into the future. My goal is to coach you in reading critically, understanding the relationship between a time period and its literature, and to be able to recognize the power of the written word, and use it! Hopefully when you leave my class you will be better prepared for college and the "real world."

About Ms. Lowery:
This is my 7th year teaching at Greenbrier High School. I grew up in Columbia County, graduating from Lakeside High School. I majored in English at the University of Georgia, and also received my MEd from Georgia as well. After that, I worked in Atlanta in Events and Marketing for several years before returning to Augusta to teach high school English.

Teaching English is a passion of mine, as is travel. Every summer Ms Herndon and I take students on an educational tour of England, so if you are interested in traveling with us, and learning about another part of this great big world of ours, please see me for information! There is nothing like travel to help you understand more about yourself and relating to people.

I hope that through the photos I share in class, the issues we discuss, the literature we read, and the writing assignments we do, that I can impart to you a piece of this love for reading and travel as well. I hope that this class makes you more culturally aware, spiritually aware of others, and prepares you for your future - no matter what direction you head after high school.

Another goal of mine is to prepare all of you for the senior project. Sophomores, it's not too early to start building skills that will help you with this when you are seniors! Technical writing, research, and public speaking skills will be necessary no matter what you do.

Below are some links that will prove useful to you throughout this course.

Turn It In - Plagiarism Check
MLA and APA Citation Guide
Vocabulary Words and Practice

If you ever need to reach me, please email me at jennifer.lowery@ccboe.net .

Summer Assignment for AP Lit - Class of 2012!

You should have received a letter from your 11th grade teacher regarding Summer Reading and your Summer Reading assignment. If not, you can pick up a hard copy in the GHS office, or you can print it from here. Email me at jennifer.lowery@ccboe.net with questions. I'll check my email every few weeks during the summer, and more as we get close to school starting again.

Have a great summer!

Ms. Lowery

We are finally on the home stretch. We will finish the year by reading a series of short stories in the Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Horror genres including “The Pit and the Pendulum”, “The Black Cat” an excerpt from “Dracula”, some futuristic stories like “There Will Come Soft Rains”, and reading a couple of chapters from The Hobbit, to name a few. Throughout the time we are reading, if the story can be found online, I will post a link to it here so that you have easy access to the story at home.

Click here for Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat”
Click here for Bram Stoker's "Dracula's Guest"

Greenbrier High School
Jenny Lowery