About Mrs. Sondy
This is how you correctly pronounce Mrs. Sondy's full last name.
Sond-ger-oth
This is the style of chapters Sandra Cisneros chose to write her book The House on Mango Street.
Vignettes
This is the room number for Mrs. Sondy's classroom.
92
During this unit final, everyone presented their inner most emotions on grief and joy to the class.
Slam Poem
Name one of Mrs. Sondy's books (title and author) that you read for SSR this semester.
Various Answers
Mrs. Sondy performed this skill at the beginning-of-the-year rally.
Back Handsprings! (Back Flip will also be accepted... even though that's not quite what it is.)
Name the three types of writing that we focused on throughout the year
Narrative, Informative, Argumentative, and Poetry
Name one book that Mrs. Sondy has been reading for SSR.
Beautiful Little Fools (Jillian Cantor)
It Ends with Us (Colleen Hoover)
It Starts With Us (Colleen Hoover)
To help understand the concept of motifs, we watched and analyzed this Pixar Short Film.
La Luna
These three novels/plays were read with the whole class over the course of the school year.
DOUBLE POINTS if you can name the authors as well!
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian (Sherman Alexie)
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
Mrs. Sondy's baby is due in _________ and the name will be _________.
July
Adam Emerson
In our unit on Romeo and Juliet, we practiced a specific type of paragraph writing structure. What is this paragraph called, and what does the acronym stand for?
RACE Paragraph: Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain
Name two student projects that are up on the walls right now! What were these assignments called? ("Good Reads" don't count!)
Skill Posters, Blackout Poem, Propaganda Posters (10CP), and Name Plaques (9CP)
In this unit activity, students took a side of the room to declare if they agreed or disagreed with statements such as "Teenagers cannot understand what true love really is" and "Parents should make decisions about their kids lives to protect them".
Romeo and Juliet
This crime is worse than burning books.
Not reading them!
On Mrs. Sondy's first attempt at push-ups in the classroom, she could only do ____. Later, she upped that number to ____, but then couldn't continue trying because she was pregnant!
2
7
These are repeated patterns that are brought up in a text. For example, the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian included poverty, bullying, alcoholism, and racism.
Motifs
These two colleges are represented in Mrs. Sondy's classroom décor.
Hint: they are the two colleges Mrs. Sondy attended
CSU Channel Islands and Cal Lutheran University
In the beginning of the year, we practiced narrative writing by responding on-the-fly to three of these things, which were randomly generated by a computer program.
Emoji's
(The Emoji Power Paragraph)
In addition to books, we read these short stories and articles as a class throughout the year (name two).
The Lady or the Tiger
The Odyssey (Graphic Novel)
Trujillo & The Mirabal Sisters (I will also accept In the Time of the Butterflies)
Ozymandias
Mrs. Sondy took inspiration for her Found poem from this artist and song.
NF
The Search
We explored these two types of identity in depth during our Identity unit in Quarter 1.
Self Identity (The individual's personal identity that is not always clear and obvious)
Social Identity (Identities that society creates for people based on visible characteristics or stereotypes)
Students across all classes completed this many books throughout the year, as visually represented on the "Good Reads" Wall.
101
In our Leadership unit, we listened to a podcast which shared the life experiences of this person growing up in a communist country.
Mrs. Sondy's mom! Alicia.
DAILY DOUBLE: All groups will guess, the closest group without going over wins!
You can wager any part of your score before the clue is read. If you are right, you will add that wager to your total score. If you are wrong, you lose that amount.
BY AN EDUCATED GUESS, How many books does Mrs. Sondy have in her Classroom Library? NO counting!