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Meet Mr. Free
Hi! My name is Brian Free. (Yes, that is F-r-e-e, as in Gratis.) after having a great first year at Brogden, I am excited about the 2008-2009 school year. I believe this is an excellent school!
Prior to coming to Brogden I taught four years in Sanford, North Carolina. Before moving to North Carolina, I attended Milligan College in Tennessee, where I met and married my college sweetheart. We have two beautiful daughters. This summer my family traveled to Southeast Asia, where I grew-up.
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We consider Brogden to be a READING CULTURE. In an effort to encourage all students to read as often
as possible, we expect all students to have a novel with them at all times in their core classes. In doing this, when a student
finishes something early, like a test, they will be expected to read instead of talking to their friends.
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We will be very busy this year tackling all of the following curriculum elements:
Introduction to Language Arts
Reading Logs
Reading Response Journals
Book Talks
Writing: Personal Narratives, argumentative, persuasive, expository
Grammar
Folklore & Mythology
Short Stories
Novels
Literature Circles Medieval, Holocaust
Drama
Poetry
Genres historical fiction, realistic fiction, nonfiction, etc
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We will read the following titles as a class:
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Ronald Dahl
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
(If this seems like a lot, get prepared because these are not all the titles we will tackle. If you have read any of these already, get ready to dig deeper!)
Brogden Teachers Worksheet
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