Please click on the Google Form and complete the end of year survey.

While I am gone today, please begin reading Act 4 of Romeo and Juliet. You can use the scene summaries to help you out.
Modern translation, page 223 of the pdf.
You may work/read in small groups.

As an introduction to our unit on Romeo & Juliet, you will be reading and researching several topics surrounding William Shakespeare, the setting for Romeo & Juliet, Elizabethan England, and The Globe Theatre. You may do this with a partner, but it is important that both partners are doing the reading and write their own answers.

Please answer the questions in the attached Google Doc

After reading "Abuelito Who," you will use it as a model to write your own poem about someone significant in your life.

THIS WILL BE part of your portfolio grade.

This assignment is due 03/09/2023. Click the attached link to access the assignment; on the CommonLit login page, click Log In With Google.

Use this journal for any notes and journal entries

This is an in-class, INDEPENDENT assignment. Read carefully and slowly so that you can answer the Guiding and Assessment Questions correctly.

Use this Google Doc for all notes and journal entries while reading "Names/Nombres" by Julia Alvarez.

Answer these Journal Prompts before turning your journal in for grading:

Julia Alvarez had a complicated relationship with her name. For the most part, it didn’t bother her to have so many different names and pronunciations, but it still had an effect on her identity.

1. Have you ever stopped to really think about your name? What do you think your name tells others about you? (before they know the real you)

2. Were you named after anyone?

3. Do you have any complicated feelings about your name?

Open up Names/Nombres to answer the rest of the questions, using the TEXT as evidence (each answer should refer to a specific paragraph number)

4. What happens almost immediately when the Alvarez family arrives in New York? Explain.

5. How does Julia feel about the pronunciation of her last name at the immigration office? Use details to support your answer.

6. Describe two different ways Julia’s name affects her life at school (with teachers or with friends). Use quotes to support your answer.

Analysis.
When Julia Alvarez was asked where she finds ideas for her stories, she said “I think, when I write, I write out of who I am and the questions I need to figure out. A lot of what I have worked through has to do with coming to this country and losing a homeland and a culture.”

7. How might Julia Alvarez’s experiences influenced her to become a writer?

This assignment is due 02/24/2023. Click the attached link to access the assignment; on the CommonLit login page, click Log In With Google.

This assignment will be graded based on how many questions you get correct, so take your time!! You may work with another student to answer the questions.

This will be a GROUP assignment that will take place over Monday, February 13th and Tuesday, February 14th. 

1. Read your assigned article, highlighting important information as you go.
2. After reading, you will be split up into groups where you will have to share on the article that you read. Be prepared to share specific facts from your article and important quotes.
3. In your group of 3 (or 4), create a Tweet for each article that you think best summarizes the message of each article/interview. The entire group should work together to create each tweet, relying on the information that the "expert" of that article provided.

To get credit for this assignment, each FINAL group of 3 must email their tweets to me - [email protected]
In your email, make sure you include:
1. The names of the 3 (or 4) people in your group
2. The 3 tweets that you came up with for the 3 articles/interviews

This assignment is due 02/10/2023. Click the attached link to access the assignment; on the CommonLit login page, click Log In With Google.

In the attached Google Doc you will record all your notes and journal prompts that we will do in class while reading the short story: "Two Kinds."

This is your digital journal for the short story "America & I"

This essay is what we will be reading in class on January 18th, 19th, and 20th. If you are absent please read this, and also stay up to date on the journal prompts.

For Wednesday's assignment, please watch the video attached.

To get credit for today's work, you MUST EMAIL ME with two things from the video that you learned or found really interesting.

This assignment is due 01/13/2023. Click the attached link to access the assignment; on the CommonLit login page, click Log In With Google.