ELA Showcase
A virtual gallery celebrating the written talents of LEAD's ELA students.
LEAD's Lit Magazine
Facilitated by Mrs. Farber
ELA 1
LEAD Discussion Facilitator
Facilitated by Mrs. Seymour & Mrs. Villalobos
Students were assigned a vignette from The House on Mango Street. After analyzing the elements of the vignette, students “patterned” a creative piece after that story. They presented all of the literary elements to their class.
Mahtab H. (9th)
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Isabel N. (9th)
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Hailey D. (9th)
My Name Poem
Facilitated by Mrs. Villalobos
Students wrote original poetry about the origin of their name. These poems were patterned after the vignette “My Name” which is part of the novel, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros.
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Giavonna G. (9th)
ELA 2
Novel Projects
Facilitated by Mrs. Farber & Mrs. Jenkins
Students in ELA2 created projects to illustrate a major theme/character/symbol/motif in a novel that they studied this semester. Some students created Found Poetry–pieces built entirely from words of the novel to convey new meaning. Some students created using “Beautiful Sentences”--using the words of the author to illustrate a major symbol of the novel. Others created Character Autopsies–deep dives into character study, or One Pagers. All students were asked to blend the words of the author, their own ideas/understandings, and a visual/ illustrated element to help convey their analysis.
Facilitated by Mrs. Farber
"Who Are We?"
A Multigenre Project
This project required students to complete 3 final products.
First, students selected a novel to read and study. Second, they selected a research topic that in some way connected to that novel. Third, they completed a multigenre/multimedia text set to synthesize their learning from the novel and the research. This final product was a cumulative piece that brought together the reading, researching, writing, and presenting skills they practiced all semester.
Students who have work posted here will have the following three items:
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Book Project
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I-Search Paper
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Multimedia Text Set
ELA 3
Park Hill Profile:
Document Your Community
Facilitated by Mrs. Ward
After conducting research about issues within the Park Hill community they felt needed attention, Mrs. Ward’s English Language Arts 3 students used their findings as they wrote and created their own documentary films in this real-world application of argument and narrative writing, visual rhetoric, and editing.