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**Welcome to Mr. Gibbons's Homepage **
 * ~ ** Featured Students ** ||~ ** Featured Works ** (Exemplary Products from AP and College Writing Courses) ||
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 * [[image:allies-1-30-16.jpeg width="80" height="110"]]Congratulations to Allie Schawe for winning a $2,000.00 scholarship for her Zombie Apocalypse poem. She won first place out of over 31,000 entries. Click here to read Allie's masterpiece.
 * Congratulations to the following students for earning an exceptional score of at **least 30** on their first practice ACT English exam on **August 27th**:
 * Luke Adkins
 * Grant Mulligan
 * Dylan Strong
 * Paige Wells
 * True Williams
 * Congratulations to the following students for earning an exceptional score of at **least 30** on their first practice ACT English exam on **September 15th**:
 * Luke Adkins
 * Sydney Ely
 * Conner McClure
 * Paige Wells
 * True Williams
 * Congratulations to the following students for earning an exceptional score of at **least 30** on their first practice ACT English exam on **November 9th:**
 * Luke Adkins
 * Grant Mulligan
 * Dylan Strong
 * Sydney Ely
 * Paige Wells
 * True Williams
 * Congratulations to the following students for earning an exceptional score of at **least 30** on their first practice ACT English exam on **November 24th**:
 * Great job ** Hannah Collopy ** and ** Destiny Taylor ** for earning the highest scores on a practice AP English Literature & Composition exam. Their scores are equivalent to earning a scale score of a "4" on the actual test.
 * Congratulations to the following AP Literature students for earning at least a passing score of a **"3"** on September 28th's practice exam (3 of whom earned a "4")--this is nearly 80% of the class and there are still about 7 months to go before the exam:
 * Bri Boulware
 * Zane Burch
 * Hannah Collopy
 * Maddie Dalzell
 * Brittany Dungan
 * Justine Green
 * Cat Haggard
 * Austin Haubner
 * Kilee Howe
 * Meagan Kinard
 * Hayley Leach
 * Allie Schawe
 * Destiny Taylor
 * Erika Torres
 * Congratulations to **Sierra Schmitt** for earning the highest score on November 6th's practice AP Literature exam. Her score is the equivalent to a **"4"** on the actual exam in May. 15 other students earned a passing score of a "3"--89% of the class.
 * ||< //This section is updated often. It is important for students to publish their work so that others can read and enjoy it. Some of these essays are also on display at Grant County's Board of Education office.// *
 * Check out Shelby Conrad's personal interpretation of the first 12 sections of Whitman's "Song of Myself."
 * Click here to read the top ENG 100 & 200 essays produced throughout each unit.
 * Click here to check out the winning AP Lit. poetry responses. There's a new winner each week.
 * Listen to the poem "Douglas" by Paul Laurence Dunbar get turned into a rap by Kilee Howe, Brittany Dungan, and Allie Schawe...it's catchy!
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 * Song's of Myself--student interpretations of Walt Whitman's famous poem. Check out these incredible poems, videos, photographs, drawings, etc.
 * Levi Fox
 * [[file:Song Levi Fox .pdf|Poem]]
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 * [[file:A Song of Myself Taylor .pdf|Taylor Crisler]]
 * [[file:song of myself Destiny Maddox.pdf|Destiny Maddox]]
 * [[file:Song of Myself final Sydney Ely.pdf|Sydney Ely]]
 * [[file:Song of Myself Mallory.pdf|Mallory Robinson]]
 * [[file:The Grant Mulligan Chronicles.pdf|Grant Mulligan]]
 * [[file:Shaena Webster song.pdf|Shaena Webster]]
 * [[file:Song of Myself Alex.pdf|Alex Brock]]
 * Drawing
 * [[file:Dylan Strong song.pdf|Dylan Strong]]
 * Hannah Jo Davis
 * Hannah Jo Davis

** A Little Extra... **
 * Team Name: **GCHS Gibbons**
 * Doin' It for Drew video





* Have some spare time? How about feeding the hungry while building your vocabulary...it's the cool thing to do. Click here to be the envy of all your friends.

Ransom Poetry winners! These poems are created by building a poem while reading a magazine--the poem exists only in the student's mind as he/she reads articles and ads.

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 * ~ **Helpful Websites ** ||
 * < * [[image:UK logo.png width="80" height="38"]]Will your credits transfer to the University of Kentucky? Click here to find out.


 * The Classroom Sharing Blog is a tool for students to **communicate with each** other and with Mr. Gibbons. Students from both past and present classes use this tool to share ideas and make comments about Mr. Gibbons' English classes.


 * [[image:owl.gif width="58" height="49"]]For **research information** and help with MLA and APA citations, visit the University of Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL) by clicking here.


 * [[image:poetry_out_loud_logo.jpg width="80" height="39"]]Want to get a head start on next year's **poetry competition**? Visit Poetry Out Loud to find poets, poems, and biographies. Remember that every student is required to memorize one poem, from the website, and recite it to the class.


 * [[image:jz9Gtlkh_400x400.png width="80" height="80"]]Try taking the world's best courses, online, **for free**, with Coursera. You can take almost any online course through top universities such as Duke, Stanford, Penn, Harvard, and dozens more!


 * [[image:google_docs_icon.png width="46" height="35"]]If you don't have a USB flash drive or MS Word, sign up for a Google Docs account so that you can **save your assignments** and work on them anywhere with an internet connection.


 * [[image:microsoft-photo-story-1.png width="64" height="72"]]Microsoft Photo Story is a cool program used to create slide-shows complete with voice-overs and music. Click here for a free download.


 * [[image:151459-inspiration9_thumbn_original.jpg width="61" height="51"]]Outlining your essay can be both fun and helpful when using a program like Inspiration. Download a free version of Inspiration 9, and begin organizing your essays and stories now.


 * [[image:march2success.jpg width="66" height="52"]]Do you need some practice before the next ACT or SAT exam? Vist March2Success for sample exams, tips, and flashcards.


 * American Rhetoric is a great website to read and watch famous speeches along with important rhetorical figures that __will__ be found on both the AP English Language and Literature Exams.


 * [[image:TED3.jpg width="80" height="80" link="@http://www.ted.com/"]]contains some of the world's most interesting talks presented by some of the world's leading people. Here you'll find motivation, inspiration, and ideas to live by.


 * Mr. Taylor racing a student on the last day of school: video ||

** About the Teacher ** Mr. Gibbons enjoys traveling. During the summer of 2014, he traveled to Baltimore and had the opportunity to visit Edgar Allan Poe's "final" resting place. Visit the Poe Museum's website to learn more about this historic literary figure and his mysterious death.

Mr. Scott Gibbons teaches AP English Language & Composition, AP English Literature & Composition, and English 100 & 200 (through Morehead State University) at Grant County High School in Dry Ridge, KY. Mr. Gibbons has a Master of Arts degree in Literature from The Indiana University of Pennsylvania and has published articles in English pedagogy. Mr. Gibbons also teaches college writing courses at Daymar College in Bellevue, KY, Gateway Community & Technical College in Edgewood, KY, and online graduate courses in Differentiated Instruction in the Language Arts Classroom for Wilkes University in Wilkes Barre, PA. Mr. Gibbons serves as a mentor teacher through Kentucky's Teacher Internship Program as well as English department chair and director of Poetry Out Loud. This website is maintained by Scott Gibbons. For questions, comments or permissions, please email him at: Scott.Gibbons@Grant.KYschools.us  © 2010-2015. Scott Gibbons--All Rights Reserved. Last updated: Fall 2015 media type="custom" key="24022070" align="center"