Mrs. Budda

Happy Holidays on Halloween from the English crew! 🎉🦫☘️🇲🇽🎃🎄#MontourProud

The class of ‘24 has so many fantastic students! I am proud to have taught so many of them 🙂 I am especially proud of these 2: Marlo & Casey, my core Poetry Club seniors, whose dedication to beautiful writing amazed me year after year. You will be sorely missed! 🥹 #MontourProud

#MontourProud of Marlo’s stellar performance at the #PoetryOutLoud PA State Finals! While the journey ends here, she performed beautifully & it was an amazing day celebrating poetry! 🗣️@pghartsmedia

The Modern Pilgrim’s Tale! 📣Seniors wrote satirical tales of modern society and took a ‘pilgrimage’ a la The Canterbury Tales 🏰🎭

In November my talented seniors finished #NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and wrote a collective 751,000 words!! 🤯This month senior Nia Del Santo finished her novel and bound it! 📚Look out for chapter book “Wilhelm the Ant” in the future! 👀😍 #MontourProud

Secret Santa Poem Gifting! 📝🎁 A junior English favorite holiday traditions! 🎄#MontourProud

Congrats Honors English 12 for winning #NaNoWriMo 2023! Total of 751, 239 words written in the month of November!! So #MontourProud of you! ✍️

It’s Pep Talk Thursday in ⁦@BridgetBudda⁩ Honors English Literature class! These Seniors are making great progress on their novels!

A Book Tasting?!?! I thought it was a Food Tasting!!! @DiIanniPam @BridgetBudda

It was great to present with Marianne Stewart at the @writingproject roundtables for Write Across America yesterday! @ncte #NCTE23

@richnovack @writingproject @ncte One of my favorite sessions! Thanks for introducing me to the @writingproject!

NCTE Convention first-timer! Here we go!! ❤️📚 #MontourProud

Shark Week 🦈 #EnglishDepartment

“I’m with the band” 🎶 #MontourProud to receive this sweet shirt from these talented seniors ❤️ @MontourHSBand

First 5K in the books for such an amazing cause! 💜 @BridgetBudda #alinaslight

Future Spartans 🥹🖤💛

I signed up for Alina's Light Walk & Run for Love on Jul 22, 2023! 💜runsignup.com/Race/PA/Pittsb…

2022- 2023 Poetry Club Champ - Casey Vallecorsa! 🎉🎤 Congrats Casey, Marlo (2nd), & Gianni (3rd)! A hard-won battle since September ✍️ “A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language” - Auden @SSeretti #MontourProud

#MontourProud of these English 11 Social Justice Projects! Congrats to Peja Cruise and Jordyn Wolfe for “Best Overall Project” (voted by students & staff) #PBL @WeaverFever18 @rhonda_marasco

Mark your calendars! 🗓️Head out to The Melting Pot in June and support Alina’s Light! 💜 #MontourProud