Gone are the days of sentence diagramming, organically structured essays and high school term papers. Students who know about the subjunctive mood, present continuous tense or nominative case likely learned them from studying foreign languages or grammar books. This trend in education to leave grammar...
English teacher Marc Igler is retiring after teaching at Gunn for 21 years, coaching the boys’ golf team for nine years and being an active member in the Palo Alto Educators Association.
After working as a newspaper reporter, Igler began his teaching career at Gunn. Since then, he has never thought...
Though student schedules may vary considerably throughout high school, history and English are two courses that typical Gunn students take all four years. These classes rely heavily on novels, articles or textbooks. In fact, a primary learning target in these classes is interpreting and analyzing writing....
This afternoon, English, social studies and special education teachers sent an open letter to Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) Superintendent Don Austin, Associate Superintendent of Educational Services Sharon Ofek, Director of Secondary Education Services Kathie Laurence and the Board of Education...
After spending three years teaching English, Paulette Sato plans on taking a leave of absence for the upcoming school year, during which time she will move to Southern California. “I will be moving down to Pasadena for a year to help out with family, teach more yoga and possibly teach English part-time,”...
A sea of adults fresh out of college, eyes wide in anticipation of the next stage of their professional lives, swam up and down the stands of potential teaching positions at the Santa Clara job fair. One face in particular—a California Polytechnic State University San Louis Obispo graduate...
Senior Vincent Lomeland was only eight years old when they first dreamed of becoming a writer. Every now and then, they would jot down fragments of an ambiguous story’s plot and fractions of a character’s life—a young and naive, but active, attempt to begin their writing career. Little...
For freshman Shana Ebrahimnejad, learning Farsi, German, French and English came from her life in Germany and America, her Persian roots and Duolingo.
As her family moved between countries, Ebrahimnejad acquired languages naturally through immersion. Accordingly, she interprets...
Written by Nikki Suzani, Copy Editor
Eurocentric. This four-syllable word encompasses a world of meaning and promotes values that are deeply inculcated into students’ minds due to the education they receive. In order for a course to be eurocentric, the course must be rooted in a European...
Written by Stina Chang
When English learners start attending school, they are required to take classes that are predominantly taught in English. is is due to the outdated Proposition (Prop) 227 passed in 1998 that restricts school districts’ ability to o er dual-language programs that bene...
Written by Anyi Cheng
Pleasure reading is dying a slow, terrible death, and we are doing nothing to stop it.
The change is one that happened gradually—too slow for me to be aware that it was happening at all. It’s shocking how little I now actually read for pleasure, especially when I used...
Written by Anyi Cheng
This is school year, two English elective classes, Escape Literature and Film Literature, will be co-taught in an effort to diversify instructional perspective. “The goals would be to ensure that the students are able to access the curriculum in their English classes, including...
