Unconventional high school course has Newport-area students hooked

MORNING SENTINEL • September 22, 2023

Nokomis Regional High School has a philosophy of 'doing high school differently,' and it's doing that with a new English elective in which students learn the art of fly-fishing. “Fly-fishing is interdisciplinary,” English teacher Nick Miller, said. “There’s the kinesthetics of learning a new physical skill, but then there’s so much learning about your environment. There’s all kinds of ecology to learn, we study the natural history of the area, and then, of course, the writing goes along with it.”