Marlene Kennedy
Junior and Senior English
Eighth grade Literature, American History, and Pre-algebra

After teaching at Mt. Calvary Christian Academy for the past thirty years, I consider myself to be well qualified. After graduating from Methodist College in Fayetteville with a Bachelor of Arts in secondary education, I began teaching at MCCA. This year I am teaching junior and senior English classes as well as eighth grade literature, American history, and pre-algebra. My junior English class spends time reviewing the basic principles of grammar and putting that knowledge to work by writing various papers and one well documented research paper, hi addition to writing, they also read American literature selections including such classics as The Scarlet Letter. The senior English class continues the same education they were learning in the eleventh grade by writing an extensive research project. They also read selections in British literature including Pilgrim's Progress and MacBeth. The eighth graders that I teach use the Saxon math curriculum that prepares them well for Algebra I. They spend time studying American history from Columbus to present day George W. Bush.