English & Literature

Our English teachers cultivate strong writers, critical thinkers, and passionate readers. From foundational writing skills to advanced literature analysis, they help students develop the communication abilities essential for college and career success.

Whether your child needs grammar support, essay writing instruction, or exposure to classic and contemporary literature, our English faculty provides engaging, rigorous instruction that builds confident communicators.

Alynda Long

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Holocaust

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Alynda is the Director of Academic Adventures, THEO’s program for elementary-aged students, while also teaching multiple English and History classes from elementary through high school.

Sharing her love of education with students is one of Alynda’s greatest joys. “Whether in an elementary language arts or social studies class or high school English and History, I love working with students and having a front-row seat to their educational journey!”

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Nathan Jensen

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Donna Cantu

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Robert Clover-Brown

Throughout his classes, Robert draws upon his life-long love for, and in-depth knowledge of, literature in all its forms and his love of, and participation in, visually creative activities, including acting.

For Literature in Action, students work collaboratively and separately to create a rich diversity of book-related Projects for presentation in class—so each student can be inspired by, and learn from, their classmates in a mutually supportive, very creative environment. Recent projects have included creating geometry-based “tesseracts” (for A Wrinkle in Time), scripts for short scenes acted in class, computer animations, interviews with the author, short movies, letters between characters, movie posters, collages, making “oral reports from the field” as a reporter, costumed characters, shoe box dioramas, and “storyboard” versions of vivid chapters.