Welcome to Langley Secondary School - Home of the Saints!

2010 English Department Courses:

English 9, English 9 Adapted,

English 10, English 10 Adapted,

English 11, Communications 11,

English 12, Communications 12,

Literature 12, Writing/Journalism 12.

Our Suggested Readings List:

In addition to the classic novels, poems, plays and nonfiction pieces that we teach, we would love you to curl up with these before you are old and grey: 

The Glass Castle, The Book of Negroes,The Diviners, A Thousand Splendid Suns,The Kite Runner, A Bird in the House

2010 Teaching Staff

Ms Ayach

• UBC grad 3 years ago, favourite author: Ernest Hemingway

Ms Barberis

• SFU grad 14 years ago, favourite author: so many!

Mrs. Bennett

• UBC grad 16 years ago, favourite author: Lawrence Hill

Mr. Gallagher

• RRMC 32 years ago, favourite author: William Shakespeare

Ms Gill

• UBC grad 14 years ago, favourite author: Marguerite Duras

Ms Haugland

• UBC grad 6 years ago, favourite author: Jeanette Winterson

Mr. Rahn

• UBC grad 14 years ago, favourite author: Charles Dickens

Ms Rathgeber

• UBC grad 4 years ago, favourite author: Jane Austen

Our Favourite Quotes:

"Love the challenge of writing down what cannot be put into words."  (Alan Watts)

"What is reading but silent conversation?"  (Walter S. Landor)

"Now my charms are all o'erthrown, and what strength I have's mine own." (William Shakespeare)

Our Department's Main Goal:

We primarily want to improve students' literacy, especially their writing and higher level reading skills.