ENGLISH 7

Completed Spelling Unit 8

Checked in & scored and reviewed topic sentence paragraphs.

Reviewed character studies. Work on final draft, due Monday.

HW: Final Draft character study from Amigo Brothers.

ENGLISH 8

Maya Angelou work.

In writer’s notebook:

QW: Mrs. Flowers helped Maya build a sense of self-worth. Write about a time you felt less than okay about yourself. Was there an adult (or anyone else) in your life who helped you feel stronger about who you are? Create a conversation between you and that person, integrating some of the ideas that Maya Angelou experienced.

Be thoughtful.

Checked in Angelou Qs in notebook

From her obituary in 2014: “ Maya Angelou, whose landmark book of 1969, ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’— a lyrical, unsparing account of her childhood in the Jim Crow South — was among the first autobiographies by a 20th-century black woman to reach a wide general readership...Throughout her writing, Ms. Angelou explored the concepts of personal identity and resilience through the multifaceted lens of race, sex, family, community and the collective past….Believing that her words had brought about the death of the man who sexually abused her, Maya did not speak for the next five years. Her love of literature, as she later wrote, helped restore language to her ”

Return/discuss memory chain work and paragraph. "Details” make it. Did you read the directions? Like a character study. Your relationship. How the friendship works. What the coach inspires in you, not how you learned to score a goal.

Significant Impact paragraph assignment, handout and explain

HW: Mon: Significant Impact paragraph. RD due Monday.

(May use memory chain work to help)