Eighth graders are busy starting the second semester with a unit on memoir and biographies in English. Students will be reading a memoir they have chosen by George Takei, Jackie Robinson, Megan Rapinoe, or Sonia Sotomayor. Meanwhile, in class students will be studying the poetry and life of Langston Hughes for a research essay about how his life affected his writing. The winter unit will include comparisons between the way that authors may craft an identity for themselves and how they see themselves in private.
