Reflections on 8th Grade

Please tell the story of your favorite memory from 8th grade. Be sure to include character reactions in your story.

Civil Rights Overview

Look at the timeline below and write about one event that you found interesting:

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html

Be sure to explain what happened and why you thought it was interesting. To receive full credit, be sure to write one thoughtful paragraph in your response. Try to also build connections with your research topic in your response.

Danger in Forgetting

Danger In Forgetting from Facing History and Ourselves on Vimeo.

After viewing the video:
What is the danger in forgetting about the Holocaust? Explain in one good paragraph.

"Alone"

Assignment:
Read the following short piece from a memoir that starts with exposition (explaining what it feels like to be alone) and then transitions to narrative. I am providing you with the exposition part. You need to write a little narrative that relates. Tell me a story about a time that you have felt alone.

"Alone"

Some days I wear alone like a coat, like a hood draping from my head that first warm day of Spring, like socks bunching up inside my sneakers. Like that.

Alone is how I walk some days, with my hands shoved deep in my pockets, with my head down, walking against the day, into it then out again.

Alone is the taste in my mouth ome morning, like morning breath, like hunger. It's lumpy oatmeal for breakfast when Mama doesn't have time to cook and I still don't know how much oatmeal and water and milk will make it all right.

However, one period of time that I really felt the most alone was when...

Memoir Practice

Think about a place that means a lot to you, a place that when you look back you have a lot of memories that you associate with it. Tell me about the place and two of the memories that you have had there and what you think about those experiences now that you are older and wiser.

Night

Night

Persuasive Practice

Write the introduction to the following persuasive prompt. Be sure to have an observation, this makes me realize, and thesis with three reasons.

________________ is the best season. Persuade others to agree with you.