Welcome to ELA! My name is Miss Curry, and I am so thrilled to be teaching 6-8 ELA here at Holy Angels. As a Diocese of Rockville Centre graduate myself, I find it so rewarding to be working here after four years teaching in the Diocese of Bridgeport in Connecticut.
If you ever have any questions, please feel free to message me through Class Dojo or contact me via email at [email protected] .
"The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically" - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Year-Long Themes
6th: Characters and Identity
7th: What It Means to Be a Hero
8th: Good vs. Evil
Current Explorations in Class - Trimester 3
6th Grade: The Importance of Self - 6th Grade students now get to embark on their first Shakespearean experience! In class, we will perform Twelfth Night, a play where no one is who they say they are. While we read, we discuss why it’s important to always be ourselves and the things we lose when we don’t let our authentic identity as God created shine through. Students will practice close reading skills by answering reflective questions on characters. In addition, they will learn the elements of drama and what makes a play so different from a novel.
7th Grade: To Be or Not to Be... A Hero - After the fun we had last year, 7th graders will get to experience Shakespeare’s most wild play: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As we act out scenes, students will get a closer look at Shakespearean language… half our scenes will be translated, but the other half will encourage students to embrace tough language in the best ways they can. We’ll discuss each Act in our newly learned Socratic Seminars and ask ourselves what happens when we can’t identify a clear hero in a text.
8th Grade: The Choices We Make - For our final text as a class, we are studying one of the greatest: Macbeth. As we look back on not only what we learned this year, but what we’ve learned since 6th grade together, we begin to think about every year-long theme we’ve studied. Through text-to-text and text-to-world connections, we find the threads through which everything we’ve read together over the last three years is connected. Students will question how Macbeth’s identity allows him to shift away from being a hero and toward being someone he wouldn’t recognize. We discuss through socratic seminars and high level questioning how our choices make all the difference, not just for characters, but for ourselves as well.
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All parents are free to message me on Class Dojo during my office hours of 7:30AM - 5:00PM
If you have not been aded to the Class Dojo and would like to be, please email me at [email protected] and I can send you the sign up link.If students have questions, they should message me on their own through Google Classroom. On their classroom page, they will see a section labeled "Miss Curry Questions", which they can message at any time. I am constantly checking these messages and will get alerts all day; I have no office hours for students and will respond ASAP
All students must have the following for each class:
* Chromebook (fully charged)
*1 inch binder with looseleaf and dividers
*Marble Composition Notebook
*Independent Reading Novel
*Pencil Case with:
*Pens (Blue and Black ink only)
*Highlighters
*Post-It Notes