What We Read
Laika and Ham were these for this purpose that we read about in our Space Race unit.
Space Travel Animal Testing Subjects (a dog and a chimp)
In our Holocaust unit, you got a chance to write these creative pieces, still displayed in our hallway on the glass doors.
A Witness Poem
"I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.”
The Creature (the monster of Victor Frankenstein)
This word that is an element in fiction when two or more characters are having a conversation back and forth.
dialogue
The number of children that Ms. Kallembach has.
4
Done mostly for show, the opening ceremony for this event was the subject of an article we read during our Holocaust unit.
The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
In a final essay, you had to choose how our Liberty & Equality Unit texts exposed this famous phrase to be a lie under the system of slavery.
all men are created equal
“Well, he isn’t really a good friend. But everyone in the class is invited to his big house this weekend. Everyone, but not me…and not Lisell.”
Irene Butter (Reni)
This word, from Romeo & Juliet, meaning a medieval Christian pilgrim who has returned from the Holy Land, often carrying a specific type of leaf as a sign of their journey.
This number which is the same as the number of years that Ms. Kallembach has been teaching.
23
This book in which an enslaved person famously fought back against Covey, (a slave-breaker), after carrying a "magical" root given to him by another enslaved person, Sandy Jenkins.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
You wrote a personal narrative for which you were told to do more "showing" in your writing, using these types of details that force the reader to more easily, hear, see, feel, and experience what you did.
sensory details
“I came back to my native country and I couldn’t ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door, I couldn’t live where I wanted….I wasn’t invited up to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the president, either.”
Jesse Owens
Beginning with "w", spell this vocab word (from our second unit of the year) meaning to be cursed, deeply unfortunate, or hated.
w-r-e-t-c-h-e-d
This year in which Ms. Kallembach was born.
1980
When this happened, in "My Mother's Garden" by Kaitlyn Greenidge, after the narrator's mother had made a garden in their neighborhood.
an agent of the town’s housing authority found out and told her the garden was against the rules (get rid of it or get evicted)
In August, you were asked to fill out a sheet called this, for which we played an ongoing game to get to know our classmates.
The Me Page (Game)
"One of the most famous pictures from the mission was taken by Neil of my gold helmet visor--with Neil and the Eagle reflected in it. If you look carefully, you'll see smudges on both legs of my spacesuit."
Buzz Aldrin
Frederick Douglass used this word several times in his narrative to describe slavery as a system that is devilish, hellish, or characteristic of hell.
infernal
This place where Ms. Kallembach was born and spent her childhood.
Illinois
This ending event of a short story we read about a mysterious hole that is discovered in a village in which many of the people's waste is discarded.
Whatever was put down into the hole, starts to fall back onto the village from the sky.
You had to explain how the Nazis managed to oppress the Jewish population of Europe, using strategies such as this, meaning biased misleading information used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
propaganda
“Even as I stand here” he bellowed, “crippled, hobbled, sickened — I am a greater ruler than any man who ever lived! Now watch me become what I can become!”
Harrison Bergeron
This literary device that means "when what happens is the opposite of what is expected to happen."
irony
This university Ms. Kallembach attended to receive her degree.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, or Northern Illinois University