Jenna Clark

Welcome to English! My name is Jenna Clark, and 2025-26 is my 15th year at Helena High School.

Students will find most course content for 2025-26 on Microsoft Teams, including class announcements, readings, and other resources.

You will find my weekly agendas in the class pages (see left) as well as on the Weekly Agenda channel of our class Team.

Parents are always welcome to reach out to me via email (jclark@helenaschools.org), and students may email or use Teams Chat if they have any questions or concerns throughout the year.

What are we working on this month?

AP Language: As we enter June, the year is nearly over. AP Language classes are wrapping up our work with Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, which was the text selected by students to read after the AP Language Exam. We’re also finishing the Final Capstone Project, which was a research project looking into topics of the students’ choosing. It’s both a culmination of all our rhetorical skills and also a fun way to close out the year. We’ll begin presentations early in 6th period due to the high volume of individual presentations, and then the other two sections will follow soon thereafter. The presentation and accompanying annotated bibliography comprise our Final for the course. Students have been working on these items since May 15th, so now the best way to support them at home might be watching them practice the presentation, or assisting with the fiddly indentation settings in Microsoft Word as they finish their bibliographies.

English IV (Mythology): The first week of June is the last week of English IV, as seniors will complete their semester testing (Per. 4-7 on Wed. 6/3, and Per. 0-3 on Thurs. 6/4) and graduate on Saturday, June 6th. We’re ending with their Arthurian Legend presentations, which (along with the accompanying annotated bibliography) represent their final exam. There is a Reflection Test scheduled for the final day of class, but we may also use that time to finish presentations if need be. The Reflection will ask students to think back on their year in English IV and on how far they have come, and it’s one last check on their writing skills before we wrap up for the year.

English IV (True Crime & Holocaust): English IV will wrap up this week as seniors take semester tests (Per. 4-7 on Wed. 6/3, and Per. 0-3 on Thurs. 6/4) and graduate on Saturday, June 6th. The True Crime & Holocaust class will listen to, discuss, and evaluate the podcasts they have been creating these last few weeks, and they’ll also submit their annotated bibliographies. Like the Mythology class, they’ll also complete a Reflection Test on their final day in class, looking back on what they’ve learned and completing a final written piece before finishing up the course.