Language & Literature

Class Teacher:
Amelia Rokicki
Grades 5-8
Language & Literature

MYP Language and Literature students follow "The Great Minds: Wit and Wisdom" curriculum which mirrors the goals and standards of the International Baccalaureate and the Common Core. Language and Literature students meet daily for 47 minutes. Students practice reading, writing, speaking and listening.

MYP 2 & 3 : How do people effect social change?

Students are reading the story of Claudette Colvin who, as a 15 year old girl in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat for a white passenger. Nine months before Rosa Parks. We read to learn how Claudette Colvin effected social change during the Civil Rights Movement. Who else effected social change?

MYP 2 and 3 Language and Literature Highlights:

Christina Egeli (MYP 2) and Anthony Lovati (MYP 3) partner read to practice oral reading fluency.

MYP 1: How can the challenge of a hostile environment inspire heroism?

Students are reading about Ernest Shackelton's leadership when the Endurance shipwrecked at the bottom of the world - Antarctica. After reading the biography of Malala Yousafzi who challenges the Taliban to fight for girls rights to education, students will research and write about a person of their choice who inspires heroism in some part of the world.

MYP 0: How do unknown social and environmental factors in an unknown world shape its development and decline?

MYP 0 students read a novel and nonfiction book about Jamestown: Blood on the River and Written in Bone to examine the social and environmental factors in an unknown world: Jamestown.

Fine Arts Work Center Fellows Host Student Exhibition and Poetry Reading
FAWC Writing Fellows Leila Chatti and Philip Mathews worked with MYP Language and Literature Students to create poetry. Students displayed their poems and read at the FAWC opening in April.

Class Teacher:Amelia RokickiGrades 5-8​Language & Literature

Christina Egeli (MYP 2) and Anthony Lovati (MYP 3) partner read to practice oral reading fluency.

MYP 0: How do unknown social and environmental factors in an unknown world shape its development and decline?​MYP 0 students read a novel and nonfiction book about Jamestown: Blood on the River and Written in Bone to examine the social and environmental factors in an unknown world: Jamestown.

Fine Arts Work Center Fellows Host Student Exhibition and Poetry ReadingFAWC Writing Fellows Leila Chatti and Philip Mathews worked with MYP Language and Literature Students to create poetry. Students displayed their poems and read at the FAWC opening in April.

Class Teacher:
Amelia Rokicki
Grades 5-8
Language & Literature

MYP 0: How do unknown social and environmental factors in an unknown world shape its development and decline?

MYP 0 students read a novel and nonfiction book about Jamestown: Blood on the River and Written in Bone to examine the social and environmental factors in an unknown world: Jamestown.

Fine Arts Work Center Fellows Host Student Exhibition and Poetry Reading
FAWC Writing Fellows Leila Chatti and Philip Mathews worked with MYP Language and Literature Students to create poetry. Students displayed their poems and read at the FAWC opening in April.