As 2020 begins we embark in a new learning  journey anew and with the necessary enthusiasm to achieve all our goals. Here are the new spelling quizzes and oral presentations.

Characterization- character traits from movie In the Time of the Butterflies

Oral Presentation- Memoir

Oral Presentation – MEMOIR

Instructions: You will search for a memoir on a book or online and read it with the members of your group outside of the classroom and present it to the rest of the group using a Power Point Presentation or  any other visual aid. As a group you will:

o   Provide the title of the memoir and author.

o   Plot: A short summary of the memoir ( you can use the Question words: Who,  What, Where, When, Why and How to write your summary  in an easy way)

o   Mention the key elements of a literary piece: setting, characters, theme, conflict…)

o   Explain the characteristics of memoir in your selected memoir with examples.

o   Identify the reflection done by the writer and the relationship with a person, place or thing.

o   Provide references (bibliography)(your sources- where did you get this memoir or any other information from. Examples links, etc. )

o   Provide copy of your presentation for everyone.

o   Be CREATIVE!!!!

Memoir #2: " I don´t care what Americans girls do." Excerpt from Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-6giw1J0KpjeF94ckkzRTdmYWc/edit?usp=sharing

Memoir Excerpt: "When I was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writeit/cavalcade/pdf/sept2003/p15-21_nonfiction_puertorico.pdf

Memoirs

Here are some links to memoirs published by students and by well-known authors. You can navigate through these links to choose one for your oral presentation from our first uniit 11.1 Memoir- My Point of View.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writeit/readwork.asp?Genre=Memoir

http://www.teenink.com/nonfiction/memoir/

http://www.dps109.org/caruso/websites/smolloy/Lists/HomeworkAnnouncements%20for%20Students/Attachments/53/A%20Mason%20Dixon%20Memory%20Read%20and%20Write%20Packet.pdf

Welcome!!

To all my students on the school year 2013-2014 welcome to my blog the space where we will share knowledge and collaborate to have a succesfull school year. Hope it can serve as a tool for your academic success. Lots of love from your English teacher M. Y. Méndez.