A Spotlight on Ms. Norr

 As we, the students and staff at SJHS,  all know with a new year usually comes a hand full of new educators.  Amongst the new arrivals is Ms. Norr, the new seventh and ninth grade Language Arts teacher at SHJS.  

Before coming to SJHS, she says she used to work at a ranch in Idaho; teenagers would come up to the ranch for a week of camping fun.  Ms. Norr’s job was to take them on high rope courses and also horseback rides and whitewater rafting trips.  “It is pretty easy to manage teenagers when they are either terrified or exhausted,” she says.  

Now Ms. Norr is thrilled to be teaching seventh and ninth graders at SJHS.  She also is excited about her portable classroom, in so much that she has nicknamed it “the north forty”, because of its distance from the main building.  The best thing about teaching seventh and ninth graders she says, is that, “both grades are excited for the future.  One is happy to be out of grade school, and one is happy to be going into high school.”  

Greg Reindhart, a ninth grade student in Ms. Norr’s class, says that they have learned a lot of different things in her class.  Most recently he said that they have learned about characters in books and how to categorize them.  

Daphne LeSeur, a seventh grader in Ms. Norr’s class, says that, “she’s really nice and pays attention to all the students.”  She also says that they have learned a number of things too, such as reading strategies and how to use them while reading a story.   She says that they are currently reading Tangerine, a 1997 novel by Edward Bloor.  

So let’s welcome Ms. Norr to  SJHS, the home of the Knights.