Week of December 20

Hello and Happy Holidays to Everyone!

This week, our Sophomores created "Butterfly Poems" to hang in the classroom.  Each butterfly represents an individual member of our class.  Over the Christmas holiday, students will be reading Elie Wiesel's poignant autobiography Night.  While reading, the students will keep a reading journal which they will turn in after the vacation.

Freshmen will be starting William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet beginning after the holiday break.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!  I hope your vacation is safe and joyous!

Mr. Hacker

Week of December 6

Hi,

This week in all Sophomore classes we will be presenting our "Identity Box" projects.  This project is the beginning of our Holocaust Unit in which we will read Night by Elie Wiesel, watch Schindler's List and perhaps Life is Beautiful.  The Identity Box project is the most important assignment students will have in my class this year because it is so personal in nature.  I shared my Identity Box with classes last week and this week, students will share themselves with the class.  Identity is important to this unit because so many identities were attempted to be "erased" by the Nazis during WWII.

In our Freshman class, we are continuing our work on The Hobbit.

I hope you are all enjoying the holiday season and as always, if you have questions, please email.

Mr. Hacker