Monthly Archives: September 2010

Due Thursday:

1. Complete the three questions about “Eyes on the Prize”.  You may type this and print this out on a piece of paper OR write it out in your notebook.  This will be checked tomorrow.
2. Finish your translation of the 14th Amendment (into language that a forth grader might understand) and write it on the sentence strip that you took home 🙂
3. Continue writing your book talk.  A draft is due on Friday and the final is due on Monday

Due Tomorrow:

1. “Eyes of the Prize” key terms.  Must be completed in full sentences, with complete description (as complete as possible) and not in the words of the source.  Write it in your own words.  Extra credit for those people who connect to the book / Theme B.Eyes Prep-1
2. Start your book talk.  Draft is due on Friday.  Final is Due on Monday.  Book talks start on Tuesday.

1. Complete the “Theme B” editing sheet that we started in class (if you haven’t already).  

2. Write a full 2nd draft of your Theme B poem (Keep the first draft!)

3/ Split B start your book talk

Good job today!

Due Monday:

1. Bring in your Warriors Summer Writing
2. Write a first draft of your own Theme B poem.  You may borrow lines, repeat patterns, use the example from Langston Hughes (be INSPIRED by him).  But, whatever you do, your must add the following content to the poem: likes, dislikes, school, home/travel, identity, ideas about you and others, what makes us Americans, etc.  Requirements are the following:  

1. Bring in a copy of the book (your summer classic) that you will Book Talk.  We will discuss book talks Monday and Tuesday.

ThemeBOrig – link to the original poem

Copy of my version below:

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My Theme for Core A and B

The instructor said,

Go home and write

a page tonight.

And make that page come out of you –

Then, it will be true.

And I consider…what will this page need to say to be true?

I’m 32, mother, sister, colleague, teacher –

Artist and analytical, sensitive and powerful

Sure, and unsure, too.

Born in San Francisco, great grandparents from Japan.

Roots in Rochester –great grandparents from Whales.

They settled upon arrival, in different ways.

I take the B train now.  Atlantic, Dekalb, Grand, Broadway, West 4^th.

Up the ramp, then stairs. Turn to Bleeker and past the busy people.

Up one flight, into the corner classroom where I can witness tourists,

Porto Rico, and students who are becoming.

It’s not easy to know what’s true from one day to the next,

even though I am grown.  I used to think, “When I get older it will all work out”.

It doesn’t – I still have to do the work. 

Brooklyn, New York,

Berkeley, California, I feel you:

Me you, you me. We – me? Me.  Who?

Me.

Well, I enjoy traveling, mothering, learning and eating sushi.

I like surprises, ocean-walking, being in love.

I like songs that hold memories – Cold Play, Tu Pac, Paul Simon.

I like being me, I think.  And that makes me like you.

I see you.  I see us.  You – me.  On the morning subway

in your face is me.  Me – you.  In your morning tired – I feel it, too.

That’s American. That’s who.

Even though you are not same.  Different stop.  Different name.

We are a part of each other.  That’s American.

Sometimes I don’t want to be a part of you, nor you me.

We clash, we bang, we stare, we shame.

Nevertheless – me, you – are WE. That’s American.

I guess you learn from me –

Although you’re older or younger or male or one ethnicity or not my friend.

I may be somewhat more free. 

Maybe you are somewhat more free?

But we are, that’s true!

This is my page for Core A and B

By Sara Momii Roberts,September 2010

Inspired by Langston Hughes Theme for English B

Good job at your second day at school!

Due Friday:

1. Bring in your completed Eighth Grade Information Sheet.

2. Choose the classic you read this summer that you want to book talk for the class. (I will just ask you the title this Friday)

Due Monday:

1. Warriors Summer Writing

2. Bring in the Classic that you will be booktalking