lessons in literature

Categories

Make Your Own Satire – 11th Humanities

February 20, 2014

At the conclusion of a unit on the eighteenth-century satires of Jonathan Swift and Voltaire, the junior Humanities students produced their own satires in the form of videos or essays.   At the end of the unit, the most effective satires were awarded Olympic medals. Winning the gold in B/C block were Haleigh Smith and Lindsay […]

My House in the Middle of Town

November 08, 2013

Mrs. Bickerstaff’s class created houses based on the book, My House in the Middle of Town, by Crystal Bowman.  Written in rhyme, the author tells the story of a lonely grandma who lived in a dilapidated house.  The kids in the town begin to clean up the yard and work on the house. The adults get involved in […]