Welcome to another year at Columbus High School, and yet another English class! These pages are meant to keep you up to date on the latest assignments for Mr. Gault's English 11 classes. There are also tons of resources for you to use in getting through this course. If you will pay attention in class, respect me as the teacher, respect your classmates as friends and students, perform the assigned work, and use this (and other) sites for assistance, you will do well in my class.

While I strongly encourage the use of electronic resources to enhance your learning and help you better understand our readings, please remember that work that is copied is considered plagiarism. Use the internet for guidance and ideas, not to copy and paste!

Click here to view the presentation covering the rules, procedures, and discipline plan for Mr. Gault's classroom.

For the 3rd Nine Weeks, we are going to begin reading from a choice of three novels by important American authors. You will choose from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Copper Sun by Sharon Draper, and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. By choosing one of the three to read, you will be creating groups in each class. You will read together each day, answer questions from a study guide, and complete a project or paper once you finish reading the novel. Each are great stories from different times in our history.

The links to the books and authors above are only one of many that you can find by searching via Google, or another web search engine. Remember that the only way to correctly answer the study guide questions is by reading the novel and discussing it with your friends.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.
One does not love breathing.
~ Harper Lee ~

“The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
~Dr. Seuss~

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
~ Joseph Addison ~

When I look back, I am so impressed again
with the life-giving power of literature.
If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of
myself in the world, I would do that again by reading,
just as I did when I was young.
~ Maya Angelou ~