Literature
Ms. Beltramo currently shares a classroom with this Latin teacher.
Who is Mr. Bonnell?
This author wrote the Feminist Mystique.
Who is Betty Friedan?
Name a committee that Ms. Beltramo has served on.
What are professional committee, day care committee, social events at your house committee, etc.?
The term for the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender
What is intersectionality?
The student (last and first name) who sang Before He Cheats this year.
Who is Eva Eldemir?
The magical realism novel including a portrayal of a woman murdering her child so save them from slavery.
Who is Beloved?
Ms. Beltramo met this feminist icon who went undercover and worked as a Playboy bunny.
Who is Gloria Steinem?
Ms. Beltramo’s favorite activist RCSJ was an immigration lawyer.
Who is Sister Fran Tobin?
All AP English students read this book of poems written by Claudia Rankine.
What is Citizen?
The instrument was played upside down by Alley Bellack.
What is the piano?
This book by Kate Chopin has been taught by Mrs. Beltramo for decades at SHP.
What is The Awakening?
The feminist legal scholar who coined intersectionality.
Who is Kimberly Crenchaw?
The longest serving employee who is also retiring this year with Ms. Beltramo.
Who is Zenaida Melgoza?
The name of the transgender activist who works for the American Civil Liberties Union.
Who is Chase Strangio?
Name three students from SHP Rocks!
Who are Nick Niksevich, Molly Tinsley, Lia Smith, Nico Ficcaglia, Sadie Taylor, Aidan Bhatnagar, Devon Williams, and Lilly Mallinckrodt?
Ms. Beltramo consistently recommends her colleagues and students read articles from this literary publication.
What is the New Yorker?
This bay area activist wrote the book Race, Class, and Gender.
Who was Angela Davis?
Ms. Beltramo’s colleague created the daycare and women’s group.
Who is Valerie Piazzalunga?
The Greek novel included a woman burying the body of her brother against her uncle’s wishes.
What is Antigone?
The animal that Amelie Bloom mimicked.
What is a dolphin?
The British author’s work addresses the politics of power and the importance of women’s writing. She is especially known for her novel, Mrs. Dalloway.
Who is Virginia Wolf?
This black lesbian mother warrior poet wrote the iconic essay The Master’s Tools Will Not Dismantle the Master’s House.
Who is Audrey Lord?
Name one of the two original goats at SHP.
Who are Connie and Donna?
The feminist icon Ms. Beltramo teaches in all of her classes wrote refuses to capitalize her name.
Who is bell hooks?
The student who fought Mr. Quattlebaum.
Who is Gabrielle Sarrugh?