AIDS Project

This week, students will be creating group projects about AIDS. This is the link to your task, resources, and evaluation: http://questgarden.com/48/98/6/070410054411/index.htm

Hodge Podge of English Fun

HomeRoom Heroes

English III (3rd Period) with their Thinking Map

Friends

Sr. and Mrs. Mahannah's 5th period classes

Kelicia, Traveshia, and Kaneeshia

The FHS Band!

Majorettes

Bulldogs and Cheerleaders

Shaquille and Octavious after running a 5K in downtown Memphis

Vocabulary Presentations: Starr, Danielle, and Chauncey

More Vocab work: Nicole, Brandon, Jasmine, and Roy

Creative Writing!

Darrius and De'Mario waiting to act their parts in The Taming of the Shrew

Petruchio (Darrius) and Katherine (Deborah) and the battle of wits

Kipp as stage director for his Creative Writing play

Tanisha, Crystal, Kelicia, Aurelia, and Marcus

Hurray for the New School Year!

 Welcome back! We are going to have a great year. 

 mmm, books...

Homeroom students doing their work

 taking a little break to smile

waiting for lunch

Welcome Back to School!

I am so excited for this new school year and the changes it will bring. I hope you are too!

Harlem Renaissance Revival

While we have been working on our research projects, the English III Bulldogs have also been studying the Harlem Renaissance.

Andre Harris is writing a paper analyzing Modernism and Dali's painting "The Persistence of Memory." This critique was an introductory assignment that transitioned our discussions of Realism and Naturalism into philosophies of the late 1800s through the early to mid 1900s.

Mary Itson is comparing two works by Langston Hughes, "The Weary Blues" and "Heyday in Harlem," and creating an analysis of Hughes' apparent perspective on the night life of the Harlem Renaissance.

Star Clarke, Kaneeshia Gray, and Neene Sarr take a break from their discussion of water and river metaphors as related to Hughes' poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and Lucille Clifton's poem "the mississippi river empties into the gulf."

All English III Bulldogs will be learning the Charleston and the Lindy Hop, two dances that were made famous during the Harlem Renaissance. Right now, the students are mastering basic East Coast Swing steps. These are students in Mrs. Mahannah's MWI class: Ashley Ratliff, Sandy Knowlton, Devin Norwood, Sheneria Elam, Terri Radcliff, Howard Nelson, Mike Macmiller, Nicole Williams, Pam Guinn, and Roosevelt Crawford.