English 8 students began working on the first of three selections from The Circuit, Francisco Jiménez’s memoir of life as a migrant child. We read “Under the Wire,” the first chapter of the book, and worked on comprehension and discussion questions...
English 8 students worked on a parts of speech review covering nouns, verbs, and adjectives. This is the last of our review: we’ll have a test on those three parts of speech late next week. English I students looked at three different perspectives on Calypso....
English 8 students went off-script a little today: we were supposed to start our next reading, “Under the Wire,” but as I read through students’ responses to the video we watched yesterday (“Harvest of Shame”), I realized we had an...
English 8 students began our new unit, which is about the search for home. We’ll be starting with some selections about immigration, so we prepared for those selections by watching 10 minutes from the legendary 1960 documentary Harvest of Shame. We also watched...
The first time I approached the cemetery in Lipnica Wielka was November of 1996, and I headed up for my first experience with All Saints’ Day in Poland. I took pictures and made mental notes for my journal: I left my apartment around 4:30 and headed up to the...
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