I have three periods of AP English, and one advanced English. The students are extremely bright, and many are very talented writers. They do journal entries every week that I have them do as a blog on our class website I created.

I am hoping to find another English speaking country, preferably European, to write them back and to also read their blogs, not only to experience other talented students' writing, but also to expose them to culture outside their own. They live in a smaller, farming community and all will be going off to larger universities where being ethnocentric will be a determent. This is a college preparatory class, and I am open to a wide variety of topics as the focus of their blogs. It is focused around creative writing, but I think it is good for them to touch on socio-political and cultural topics. Currently, I had them write an introductory blog discussing themselves and life as they know it being an American teenager.

My classes are about 16-18 students each except my advanced English which is only 8 people. If you do not have a few larger classes like this, I would be interested in taking on a different class for each one of my own.