Hello and welcome to my educational resource page. My name is Alice Lyons and I have been teaching with the Wilkes-Barre Area School District at James M. Coughlin High School since January of 2003.

 

During my tenure at Coughlin, I have had experience teaching 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade English. At the start of the 2014-2015 school year, I began teaching the newly created Public Speaking Course, for which I had the privilege of creating the district curriculum in the summer of 2014.

 

Currently, along with Public Speaking, I am teaching Advanced English 12 which focuses on World Literature, as well as grammar and writing.

 

My other responsibilities for Coughlin include being the drama advisor/director for the Coughlin Players, Varsity Head Softball Coach, and Graduation Project Advisor.

 

It is a passion of mine to have a positive impact on as many young lives as possible, and it is pleasure to take on all of these responsibilities inside and outside of the classroom.

Students taking Advanced English 12 will focus on World Literature including excerpts from classic works such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, Dante's Inferno, The Iliad, William Shakespeare's Hamlet, and more modern works like Elie Weisel's famous memoir, The World was Silent, and and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.

 

Throughout the school year, students will also focus on the functions of grammar and will work on their writing skills by completing major essays, a literary analysis paper, and short constructed responses.

Students taking 11th grade English will focus on British Literature including excerpts from classic works such as Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,  William Shakespeare's Macbeth, and more modern works like Elie Weisel's famous memoir,  Night, and D. H. Lawrence's The Rocking Horse Winner.

 

Throughout the school year, students will also focus on the functions of grammar and will work on their writing skills by completing major essays and short constructed responses.