English

About

The goal of the English Department program is to help students grow in their understanding and use of the human communicative process:

 

• as a means of affirming the worth of the individual.

• as a vehicle for learning to think independently and critically.

• as a means for contributing positively to democratic institutions.

• as a means for determining a system of personal and social values.

• as a means of developing interest in the various media, not merely as vehicles of expression, but as art forms which provide practical and aesthetic insight into human nature.

• as an avenue to the understanding of such abstract concepts as beauty, wisdom, and truth.

 

The English Department recognizes the communicative process as three-fold: receiving, thinking, and sending. This process incorporates listening as well as reading, speaking as well as writing, and assimilating as well as receiving and sending.

 

2025 Weighted Class Summer Reading (for students entering 2025-2026)

English 10X	10X Summer Reading assignment
AP/IB English 11	AP/IB English 11 Summer Reading assignment
AP/IB English 12	AP/IB English 12 Summer Reading assignment

 

 

Courses offered (* denotes a weighted class)

 

Grade 9

• English 9
• English 9X*

 

Grade 10

• English 10
• English 10X*

 

Grade 11

• English 11
• English 11: Ethnic Literature
• English 11S: American Film Literature
• AP/IB Literature and Composition*

 

Grade 12

• English 12
• English 12: Expository Writing
• English 12: Genres of Literature
• English 12: Creative Writing
• English 12: Critical Thinking
• English 12S: World Film Literature
• AP/IB Language and Composition*
• Elementary Composition ACP (W131)*
• Genres of Literature: Literary Interpretation ACP (L202)*
• Public Speaking ACP (P155/S121)*

 

Electives

• IB Film*
• Etymology
• Speech

 

Faculty

Mr. Gregory Lineweaver (Department Chair)	glineweaver@msdwt.k12.in.us
Mr. Tony Armstrong	tarmstrong@msdwt.k12.in.us
Mr. Michael Botta	mbotta@msdwt.k12.in.us
Ms. Kim Carlson	kcarlson@msdwt.k12.in.us
Ms. Suzette Friar	sfriar@msdwt.k12.in.us
Mr. Michael Gawdzik	mgawdzik@msdwt.k12.in.us
Ms. Marina Gibson	mgibson@msdwt.k12.in.us
Mr. Graeme Gump	ggump@msdwt.k12.in.us
Ms. Christy Halterman	chalterman@msdwt.k12.in.us
Mr. Chris Huntington	chuntington@msdwt.k12.in.us
Ms. Gretchen King	gking@msdwt.k12.in.us
Ms. Laura Mail	lmail@msdwt.k12.in.us
Ms. Melissa Martin	mbmartin@msdwt.k12.in.us
Ms. Allegra Mather	amather@msdwt.k12.in.us
Ms. Lynda McQuiston	lmcquiston@msdwt.k12.in.us
Mr. Brandon Mitchell	brmitchell@msdwt.k12.in.us
Ms. Larissa Morris	lmorris@msdwt.k12.in.us
Ms. Chelsea Peresie	cperesie@msdwt.k12.in.us
Mr. Michael Pleake	mpleake@msdwt.k12.in.us
Ms. Marcia Rosene-Rigdon	mrigdon@msdwt.k12.in.us
Mr. Angel Ruiz	aruiz@msdwt.k12.in.us
Ms. Carla Sanford	csanford@msdwt.k12.in.us
Mr. Ryan Scanlan	rscanlan@msdwt.k12.in.us
Ms. Elizabeth Schroeder	eschroeder@msdwt.k12.in.us
Ms. Caroline Scott	cscott@msdwt.k12.in.us
Ms. Stephanie Selby	sselby@msdwt.k12.in.us
Mr. Tyler Stevenson	tstevenson@msdwt.k12.in.us
Mr. Kellard Townsend	ktownsend@msdwt.k12.in.us
Ms. Elaine Wiggins	ewiggins@msdwt.k12.in.us