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"What's Happening in Room #120?"Our class made contact with the assistant principal of Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary to send "Six-Word-Hope" for Sandy Hook Memoirs for students, teachers, and families. Here was her response to our final project :
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Poetry Recitations, Poetry Analysis & Poetry StationsStation #3 & 4 (within slideshow): Poetry Tableaux & Poetry ArtPoetry Stations Followed Poetry Analysis of
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2011-2012 Florence Education Foundation Grant Recipient |
2012-2013 Florence Education Foundation Grant Recipient |
Station #1 (below):
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| spencers_comparisons.mov |
| daziona_and_flor.mov |
| spencers_title_and_author.m4a |
| spencers_group.m4a |
| 4thpd_poetry.mov |
| averyslava.m4a |
Station #2 (below):
Poetry iBooks & StoryBirds
| 4th_ibook.pdf |
| 5th_ibook.pdf |
| 7th_ibook.pdf |
| 8th_per._ibook.pdf |
3rd Period StoryBird
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CLASS TIMER
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The Outside Reading List
begins with the assigned summer reading: Izzy Willy Nilly, by Cynthia Voigt. Thereafter, we will read at least four more outside novels before the school year ends: Monster, by Walter Dean Myers; The Outsiders, by SE. Hinton; Animal Farm, by George Orwell; and Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. Nevertheless, literature--fiction AND nonfiction--will dictate our learning processes throughout our entire school year. The canon for our class ranges from the short story--"The Cask of Amontillado"
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by Edgar Allen Poe and "Rules of the Game", by Amy Tan—to the drama of the Shakespearean theatre, as we will read the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. We will learn about the epic hero as we read Homer's Odyssey. We will also have an extensive poetry analysis unit in which we will consider a variety of works, such as "The Road Not Taken", by Robert Frost, to "The World is Not a Pleasant Place to Be", by Nikki Giovanni. Additionally, throughout the school year we will read a host of informational text examples, historical documents and biographies, along with news articles and current event items. So put on your “critical thinking caps” because we will be engaging and interacting with literature in a way that you’ve never done so before!
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Student Creation & Work Station
On many weeks, you will create an "EACH-1-TEACH-1" presentation to demonstrate your learning. Here are some of MY favorite links for creating, presenting ideas, collaborating,
and more, that can help you to do this:
and more, that can help you to do this:
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