What We Read
Also a rapper, this author wrote a mostly true story of a former bully.
50 Cent
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
"What, are you deaf or something? Didn't you hear me say don't call me that like ten times already?"
Butterball
This word that is an element in fiction when two or more characters are having a conversation back and forth.
dialogue
The type of leave of absence that explains Ms. Kallembach's absense from 1st semester.
maternity leave
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
You had to choose whether this modern thing caused more harm or more help and defend it with text evidence in an essay.
Technology
“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 literary device that means "when what happens is the opposite of what is expected to happen."
irony
This number which is the same as the number of years that Ms. Kallembach has been teaching.
22
Laika and Ham were these that we read about in our Space Race unit.
Space Travel Animal Testing Subjects (a dog and a chimp)
You flexed your creative muscles when you wrote your own historical fiction "picture books", in which a historical event was true, but these were not.
characters, situation, dialogue
“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 "d", spell this noun, from 100 Words Every Middle Schooler Should Know, that means "the scattered remains of something broken, destroyed, or discarded; rubble or wreckage."
d-e-b-r-i-s
This year in which Ms. Kallembach was born.
1980
This short story of a man who volunteered for a science experiment in which he was so overly clever, that he couldn't to find the way to get out of a cell.
The Cage
In January, 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
Appearing in the 100 Words Every Middle Schooler Should Know book, this word beginning with "m" that means "dull because of being always the same."
monotonous
This state in which Ms. Kallembach was born and spent her childhood.
Illinois
In a short story we read from a wife's perspective about her husband's strange, possibly cursed, behavior, (going out at night and going missing sometimes), we find out she and her children were actually these.
Wolves
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
In "The Monkey's Paw", Mr. White called the road on which they live this, meaning a swift and powerful flow of water, like a river rushing violently after a big storm.
torrent
This university where Ms. Kallembach attended.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, or Northern Illinois University