Dear Seventh Grade Families,

Coming back from break we are going to pause with nonfiction and do some holiday themed reading and writing. We will be reading and comparing the novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and comparing and contrasting it to the play version linked below. I have linked all reading materials below. Please preview them and if you have any objections, please let me know and I will provide students with an alternative assignment. Thank you and I hope everyone has a great break.

Play: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cf1zDh96TbCtJxJ9Fx5Zy67Q0h0-bXCF/view?usp=sharing

Picture of novel: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X9HZjavy-1kkzK9eRlwRH3hUr6qAAp00/view?usp=sharing

PDF Copy of book: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Zlq-VK1CslGKC7081mHhCGxRD9HS82n/view?usp=sharing

Audiobook:

Stave 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKFoUQZdiMs

Stave 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7i1Wruj8LM

Stave 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j15ExWR2eA0

Stave 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUPym4-9dvk

Stave 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ca2nQjwU_8

Dear 8th Grade Families,

Coming back from our Thanksgiving Break we will continue to study personal narratives, but this time in graphic novel form. Students will finish their narrative essay and then we will begin reading They Called Us Enemy by George Takei. It is a graphic novel about his experiences in Japanese Internment Camps during World War II. Students will then be asked to create a graphic novel/storyboard of a personal experience from their own lives. We will be comparing and contrasting graphic novels to other genres of literature. George Takei is gay, but I could only find one reference to his sexuality in the book. I will include a link to a picture of the page in your email message and the Class DoJo message I send out. If you have any questions, concerns or objections please let me know and we can work together to come up with alternative assignments for your child.