Hello and welcome to the English department! Nicole DeLassus is one of the three English teachers this year and is excited to be in her fourth year here at Catholic Central. She has a Masters in Secondary Education and a Masters in English from DePaul University. She also earned an interdisciplinary BA degree from Columbia College in Fiction Writing and Film/Video with a focus on story adaptation. She enjoys spending time with her husband, family and many pets, reading, writing, painting, kayaking, and knitting projects she doesn’t finish. Her current project is a blanket for Baby Violet who she is expecting any day now.
This year, Mrs. Delassus teaches English I (freshmen requirement), American Literature and Composition (junior non-AP requirement), Speech (elective), and Story in Fiction and Film (a second semester elective where the students study how films create narratives and even create their own films).
In English I, the students are reading The Pearl and analyzing for theme while about to start learning about argument writing. Then they will move on to a Man Vs. Nature unit with poetry and the epic poem The Odyssey. In American LIt and Composition, the students are reading about the Salem Witch Trials in The Crucible and will eventually move on to American Romanticism, American Revolutionaries and then Catcher in the Rye. Her speech class is in the middle of delivering demonstration speeches and are beginning a radio broadcast essay to practice speaking rate, voice inflection, enunciation, etc. Then they will move on to a drama skit.
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| Books that English I and American Lit are reading . |
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| Freshmen working together. |
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| Shan Gill giving a speech. |
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| Brendan Goethal giving a speech |
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| Nicole McCourt and Cal Sanfelippo performing a skit in drama class. |
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