Welcome!

Please use this blog to get a first-hand view of what the 8th graders are reading and discussing in literature class this year. I plan to post pictures/videos of activities and projects throughout the year so please check back frequently. I may also use the blog to give some reading recommendations and review different young adult books (assuming I have time to read any during the school year!)

Please also note the tabs at the top of the page. As the year continues, I will be using them as a gathering place of any important links and student work.

Don't hesitate to contact me with any questions. Also, I love getting reading requests so if you've read a great book lately, let me know!

Championship Voting!

Here we go...for the win!

Hope is the Thing with Feathers

vs.

The Daffodils

Final Four Voting

If I Were in Charge of the World  vs.  The Daffodils

Sympathy  vs. Hope is the Thing with Feathers

Poetry Voting 4/29

Harriet Tubman vs. If I were in Charge of the World

The Daffodils vs. Annabel Lee

Sympathy vs. Speech to the Young

Theme for English B vs. Hope is the Thing with Feathers

Poetry Voting 4/25

Use the links to vote on each digital poem. Remember that you will only be watching a segment since we have seen them before. If you would like to watch one in its entirety because it has only been seen once, please ask.

Match up 1

i carry your heart
Annabel Lee

Match up 2

Hope is the thing with Feathers
If I could Stop One Heart from Breaking

Match up 3

Daffodils
Will V Day be Me Day, Too?

Match up 4

Theme for English B
When You are Old

Match up 5

Mother to Son
If I were in Charge of the World

Match up 6

Speech to the Young
Song for an April Dusk

Match up 7

It's All I Have to Bring Today
Harriet Tubman

Match up 8

One Perfect Rose
Sympathy

Poetry Voting 4/23

Click on the links to vote when we are ready to watch the digital poems.

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

It's All I have to Bring Today

Loveliest of Trees

One Perfect Rose

Voting 4/15 (8F) and 4/17 (8A)

Mother to Son

Grass

St. Crispin's Day Speech

Harriet Tubman

Sympathy

We Wear the Mask

Speech to the Young

The Lamb

There will be two other match ups you will watch on your own. I will not post them on here until after 8A has had class this week. It will be your homework over the weekend.