Wimmer's Weekly
English IV and Yearbook
Week Two: September 3-6
Since I didn't send out a Monday Mail newsletter last week, here is a short recap:
I asked my students to take a syllabus home and have it signed...if you did so, thank you!
English IV students were assigned a "This I Believe" essay. We have several lessons left before they actually start writing their 500 word essay, but the final draft will be due at the end of next week.
Yearbook staff members are just working on getting to know each other. When running a staff that basically spends the year creating a product and then selling that product, I find it terribly important to know and trust one another.
English IV
This I Believe: Lessons 3 and 4
Writer's Notebook
Mrs. Wimmer's Writer's Notebook-Running Slideshow
The Daily 10
Yearbook: Week 2
About Mrs. Wimmer
One of the things that I feel strongly about is parent/teacher communication. I feel that in order for my students and parents to feel comfortable in contacting me, it is important that they know a little about me.
I was born in Lubbock, TX and grew up in Muleshoe. While I was in high school, I was very involved in 4-H where I raised show pigs and also competed in speaking events and taught homemaking classes to younger kids. I think that was where I caught the teaching bug! That and my grandmother, Nanny, was a very respected 4th grade teacher.
I went to SWT (now Texas State) where I received a degree in Broadcast Production and Journalism, and I minored in English. In my last semester there, I met my husband, Max and decided to go ahead and pursue my teaching certification.
I began teaching in Poteet, TX, where I taught English I, II, and III for two years. After living south of San Antonio, away from family and friends, we decided to move to San Antonio proper and I took a job at Seguin HS teaching English III. After seven years and teaching English I, II, III, and IV, and adding a sweet baby girl named Ella to the family, Max and I decided New Braunfels was the place for us and I was lucky enough to secure a job teaching English and Yearbook (which is definitely a passion of mine).
Ella is a sixth grader at Oak Run Middle School and Max teaches 6th Social Studies at Brooks Collegiate Academy in San Antonio. We love New Braunfels and are happy to be a part of this great community.
Email: awimmer@nbisd.org
Website: http://schools.nbisd.org/page/AmandaWimmer-Home
Location: 2551 Texas 337 Loop, New Braunfels, TX, USA