Harper Lee's Biography

Click here to read about Harper Lee's biography, especially about how To Kill a Mockingbird was written and how it almost wasn't published at all.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.

William Shakespeare

Birmingham Pledge

Here is the website to read about and understand the Birmingham Pledge. We will also be looking at the section of the website devoted to Harper Lee and lessons learned from To Kill a Mockingbird.

Katrina Article

Here is an article I wrote for Portico Magazine in Birmingham about a family's experience during Hurricane Katrina. We will be reading and discussing this contemporary article as it relates to the civil rights movements and our own questions of justice and injustice.

Important Dates

For February and March:

Spring Pictures 2/18

Health Fair 2/25

WBMS Cheer Tryouts 2/26

Spring Break 3/13-3/21

Pageant Rescheduled

Miss WBMS pageant will be rescheduled for Monday, Feb. 15 due to snow.

Hoops for Heart

Ms. Anderson will in fact participate (as a bench-warmer, but that's still participation, right?) in the annual Hoops for Heart basketball game.

Apart from my own 7th grade P.E. class, this will be my first time to play the game EVER.

Coach Preston assures me I will get at least (or no more than) 2 minutes of playtime. :)

Poetry Test Review

Test review in-class, Wed., February 3.

Test will be Thurs., February 4.