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  • 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
  • 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

Class Rhythms (but no blues)


Welcome Back!

This year we get to meet in each other in person on the very first day of school! Yay!

Supplies List:
  • Composition notebook (or spiral)
  • Durable double pocket folder (just one; any style)
  • Pen or pencil to write with each day
  • A highlighter (any color)
  • Sticky notes (3 inch by 3 inch is best)
  • Your Chromebook (each day)

#How Our Classroom Works

Classroom Contracts by Consensus -- Mrs. Bestor's Classes!

The creation of our classroom contract was a collaborative, multi day, consensus-driven process that resulted in students creating a vision for their learning environment, a set of agreements (norms) in order to fulfill the vision, and a set of non-negotiables, or those mindsets and behaviors we cannot tolerate if we are to see our vision through. 

​We are all proud of the work we did! Check it out below, as presented by class period.

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