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    • Manage Your STRESS
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    • The Cost of Conformity
    • The Giver
    • The Reading Mindset
  • Second Quarter
    • Themes in the novel THE GIVER
    • For Everyone by Jason Reynolds
    • Fig Lang (Figurative Language)
    • What do we do with a difference?
    • Amanda Gorman, Poet Laureate
  • Third Quarter
    • Argument Reading
    • Argument Writing
    • In-text Citations
    • What do we do with a difference?
    • I heard it through the grapevine...
    • Literary Allusions
  • Fourth Quarter
    • P o E t R y
    • The Scorpio Races
    • Writing & Performing a MONOLOGUE
    • Me, Myself, and My Gender
    • Themes in Literature
    • Innovating to Solve Real-World Problems
    • The Design Thinking Process
  • Book Club & Socratic Seminar
  • One Community; Six Words
    • Check Out Our Project!
    • North Olmsted's African American History
    • North Olmsted's First Settlers from CT and VT
    • North Olmsted's Geologic & Natural History
    • North Olmsted's Native People
    • North Olmsted's Veterans
    • North Olmsted's Women
  • Conducting Research Like a Boss
  • The Three Types of Irony
  • The Cost of Conformity
  • Women's History Month
  • Black History Month
  • Home
  • First Quarter
    • Welcome Back - Rhythm, But Not Blues
    • This I Believe
    • Manage Your STRESS
    • It's All About Having a Growth Mindset
    • The Cost of Conformity
    • The Giver
    • The Reading Mindset
  • Second Quarter
    • Themes in the novel THE GIVER
    • For Everyone by Jason Reynolds
    • Fig Lang (Figurative Language)
    • What do we do with a difference?
    • Amanda Gorman, Poet Laureate
  • Third Quarter
    • Argument Reading
    • Argument Writing
    • In-text Citations
    • What do we do with a difference?
    • I heard it through the grapevine...
    • Literary Allusions
  • Fourth Quarter
    • P o E t R y
    • The Scorpio Races
    • Writing & Performing a MONOLOGUE
    • Me, Myself, and My Gender
    • Themes in Literature
    • Innovating to Solve Real-World Problems
    • The Design Thinking Process
  • Book Club & Socratic Seminar
  • One Community; Six Words
    • Check Out Our Project!
    • North Olmsted's African American History
    • North Olmsted's First Settlers from CT and VT
    • North Olmsted's Geologic & Natural History
    • North Olmsted's Native People
    • North Olmsted's Veterans
    • North Olmsted's Women
  • Conducting Research Like a Boss
  • The Three Types of Irony
  • The Cost of Conformity
  • Women's History Month
  • Black History Month
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Anchor Text:  The Giver by Lois Lowry

Essential Questions:
  1. How do our beliefs inform our choices?
  2. What is the cost of conformity?
  3. What threats will we face in the future? How can those threats be mitigated even now?

Writing Focus:
  1. Personal Narrative (Essay) and Argument
  2. Basic conventions of English & Sentence Structure


Our Poem of the Quarter - "Invitation to Brave Space"