Pawling High School

Best way to contact Ms. Herman: hermanc@pcsdny.org (I check my email often!)

I am excited to spend this year learning, growing, and laughing with Pawling 9th graders as we grow in skills and maturity throughout the year. I come to Pawling from Massachusetts, where my accomplishments included a Shakespearean Archery Contest, winning 2nd Best Dancer at Prom, telling one too many stories about India, and convincing the senior class to replace their inappropriate language with the word "purple." I hope  to have even more outlandish adventures with the 9th graders of Pawling.

English Language Arts has "Arts" in its name for a reason! In this class, we will study and practice the arts of reading, writing, persuasion, critical thinking, and self-reflection. Those are not easy skills, but they are worthy ones, and we will devote our entire year to their mastery. The essential question of our year is "What does it take to be a hero?" Our students will look at great heroes in literature, both pure and flawed, and construct their own ideas of what it means to be a hero in our world today.  

¡Hola estudiantes y padres! Bienvenidos al portal de artes del lenguaje en inglés de noveno grado. Estoy emocionado de pasar este año aprendiendo, creciendo y riendo con los estudiantes de noveno grado de Pawling a medida que crecemos en habilidades y madurez durante el año.  En esta clase, estudiaremos y practicaremos las artes de la lectura, la escritura, la persuasión, el pensamiento crítico y la autorreflexión. La pregunta esencial de nuestro año es "¿Qué se necesita para ser un héroe?" Nuestros estudiantes observarán a los grandes héroes de la literatura, tanto puros como imperfectos, y construirán sus propias ideas de lo que significa ser un héroe en nuestro mundo actual.