NCTS Book Recommendations

While reading library books, students visualized characters' lives and questioned characters' motives.  Students' investigative questions and creative imaginations led to the character interviews below.  Read the interviews to discover the interesting lives found in the pages of these NCHS library books. 

By Anjayla

By Cordell 

 By Kordell 

By Marcus

By Mychaela 

 By Phebra 

By Tally 

 By Victoria 

By Yemi 

In addition, 100% of NCTS students are meeting our MYP Essential Agreements! Woot Woot! 

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August Student of the Month

Congratulations Kourtney! 

Mrs. Achgill Visits NCTS English Classes

NCTS students understand that visualizing their reading material helps them

engage, personalize, and comprehend texts. 

Mychaela explains, "Visualizing makes the story feels real.  

You actually really get into the story, and it feels like you are living it."  

In addition, students practice visualizing because they know that when they visualize 

their reading material, they are more likely to finish the reading assignment.  

Kourtney shares, "If you really get into visualizing, it feels like you are watching a movie 

that you don't want to turn off." 

To support students' visualization skills, Mrs. Achgill led students through a 

Sketch to Stretch lesson. While Mrs. Achgill read a passage from a book, 

students sketched the visual images that they pictured in their minds.  Trenton reflects, "Visualizing turns the book into a movie and makes it easier to analyze." 

NCTS Attends JELCC Field Day

Reader's Theater with Mrs. Achgill, NCHS Information Center Department Chair

Today, Mrs. Achgill visited NCTS English classes to support students' current MYP Unit:  How Do My Choices Impact My Personal Development?

  

With Mrs. Achgill's guidance, students transformed into actors as they participated in Reader's Theater and acted out the novel, ADHD & Me: What I Learned from Lighting Fires at the Dinner Table.   

Eager to share their own personal narratives, students shared their essays with Mrs. Achgill during writing conferences. 

Mrs. Achgill, thank you for providing NCTS an entertaining and literary experience!