Tuesday, February 23rd
February 24, 2016
9th Grade: Quick Update: Last class I handed back and went over our essays- rewrites due next Monday with highlighted changes and rough drafts. We had a lesson on cultural appropriation and then another lesson introducing Bessie Head- Botswana’s fabulous writer. We read “Looking for a Rain God” and then did some work with her […]
Tuesday, February 16th
February 16, 2016
9th Grade: Today we completed our group presentations on Nelson Mandela. We also read an article written on the humanness of Mandela- written by none other than our Nadine Gordimer! Our passbook assignment was to find two quotes that shows Mandela’s humanness. After we began out documentary “Amandla” HW: NONE! 11th Grade: Today we discussed […]
Thursday, February 11th
February 11, 2016
9th grade: We have been studying the life of Nelson Mandela- reading excerpts from his autobiography A Long Walk to Freedom. Students have been practicing essential skill son how to read Informational Texts. Today we broke up “The Struggle Was My Life” into 6 sections- groups prepared a topic sentence and quotation outline to teach […]
Wednesday, February 3rd
February 3, 2016
11th Grade: We discussed “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” and the moral of the story. Students turned in their typed questions from Zitkala-Sa. After a food and memory activity (yes, we ate food!) we began January in Like Water for Chocolate. Latin American Lit intro HW: Read January and February 9th Grade: […]