NAME:
Christine Hannaford
SCHOOL:
Bosque School
CLASS:
8th Grade English
SCHOOL PHONE:
898.6388
Christine Hannaford moved to Albuquerque from Neos Marmaras, a small fishing
village in Halkidiki, Greece, and is entering her ninth year at Bosque
School, where she teaches eighth grade English. Christine holds a B.A. in
English from Trinity College of Vermont, an M.Ed. from St. Michael’s College,
and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Goddard College. She has taught for
more than twenty-five years at the middle school, high school, and college
levels. She is also a writer who has published a few short stories and has
several novels, short stories and a travel narrative looking for good homes.
Her hobbies are too many to list, but traveling is certainly high among them.
This past summer, she spent working on several short stories, “Killed in the
Line of Duty,” and “The Edge of Darkness,” and a memoir, The Landscape of
Childhood, all set in her native Vermont, as well as visiting family and
friends east and west. She lives in the North Valley with her husband and
looks forward to the upcoming year.
EIGHTH GRADE ENGLISH
Eighth grade students explore a variety of genre and styles in English. As
well, they are required to write extensively, honing their skills as critical
readers and thoughtful, articulate writers. To this end, students read short
stories, essays, poems, and novels and study the essential elements of these
various genre. Some of the works that we will consider this year are The
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, Of Mice and Men by
John Steinbeck, Anthem by Ayn Rand, To Kill a Mockingbird, a Haper Lee novel,
and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In addition, we will immerse
ourselves in a study of poetry and short fiction in preparation for Writers'
Cafe. Throughout the year, students will navigate essay writing: shaping and
refining thesis statements embedding them in effective and engaging opening
paragraphs, developing solid supporting paragraphs, and crafting satisfying,
effective concluding paragraphs. Each student will also develop a corpus of
original, creative work. Included in the writing process is the requirement
to polish the written text. In this effort, we will review grammar usage and
the mechanics of writing on a regular basis. And of course, we will be
vigilant about expanding our cache of new vocabulary.
