Starting off the 2011-2012 year guns blazin’, the senior Honors English Seminar class recently finished the book Where Men Win Glory by the author Jon Krakauer. The book details the life of Pat Tillman, an ex-NFL Arizona Cardinal, who traded a life of fame and fortune to become an Army Ranger. Pat was inspired to join the military following...
In conjunction with reading the Swedish novelist Henning Mankell, the Honors English Seminar class visited the Jack Evans Police Headquarters on Lamar St. near downtown Dallas. Built in 2003, the new police headquarters houses 3,600 Dallas police officers who make up the 9th largest Police Department in the United States.
Our tour began in the Chief of Police’s office and...
In celebration of the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio on the 17th of February, Cistercian Preparatory School hosted an Interscholastic Colloquium on Shakespeare's plays, Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet. Schools from across the Metroplex attended, including Hockaday and Fort Worth Country Day. The colloquium has been a reoccurring annual event since 2013 when it was first hosted...
Slicing through the convict’s shackles, Pip, a young orphan, aids in freeing a captured criminal.
Last Tuesday, September 8th, juniors preformed Charles Dicken’s Great Expectations in front of their peers. Juniors reenacted scenes from the novel, highlighting main character Pip’s adventurous life.
English teacher Mr. Patterson “thought it would be cool to have juniors act scenes out in the classroom” and trying...
Mr. Goll is an English teacher at Jesuit who pushes his students to excel in and outside the classroom. He truly models the mission and philosophy of Jesuit Dallas: "to offer an excellent, Catholic education in the classical Jesuit tradition to form a community of men with high moral principles who are dedicated to serving others."
So, I conducted a...
At the start of the 2022-23 school year, Jesuit Dallas welcomed many new faculty members. Mr. Drew Maddox is the newest member of the Department of English. The Department of English designs its core curriculum to provide all students guided instruction in reading and writing techniques. All of this shape a student who grows fully in the presence and...
Although there are many strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, and raspberries, there is one berry that presides among all of them; Ian Berry!
Mr. Ian Berry ’07 was born at Presbyterian Hospital and grew up in the Lake Highlands
area. Until sixth grade he attended The Highlander School, a small school off Plano road. After graduating, he moved on to another small school called The...
This past Tuesday, October 11, 2011, Ms. Sheryl Row took her senior Honors English Seminar class on a field trip to three Museums in the Fort Worth area. On the way there the students learned a neat Dallas history fact when they drove by Eagle Ford District 49 Grade School, the first school for Mexican immigrants in the Dallas...
