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SQ NEWS… ALL ABOUT US ISSUE 01-SUMMER 2014

A student publication created at Brooklyn Collegiate – 2021 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11233

I visited Ms. Ramos’ first period ELA class, where she is teaching Summer Quest ELA Enrichment to the mostly rising 9th graders. Ms. Ramos discussed with me how she was teaching the class to write editorial essays. She was teaching the structure of an editorial essay so students can write an editorial essay on whether Junk Food should be sold in schools. I also interviewed Keyanna, a student in the class, who explained that by learning about an editorial essay, they will understand how to write and express themselves about an issue with evidence. Keeping the class fun, Ms. Ramos has a ticket system in which she rewards students weekly for getting their work done and staying on task

by: Fernando

Inside Story…ELA

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a chance to interview Xikira,

a 6th grader. Xikira excitedly said, “we are learning about Ancient Egypt and pharaohs.” They were also doing a really fun project where they used the map of Egypt to create *acoustic poems and other fun activities. Ms. Alleyne’s class is literally taking it way back to Ancient Egypt with the activities.

*Acoustic poems are poems where you take a word and use the different letters to create a poem.

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I interviewed Ms. Alleyne, who teaches the Summer Quest 5th, 6th and 7th graders, she shared, “I’m teaching about Ancient Egypt, giving the students a brief overview of how it was to live in in that time.” I further went on to ask her why she choose to take it back to Ancient Egypt, she jokingly states, “ that’s what I was given,” however, on a serious note she said “the summer quest program is focusing on diverse cultures and I was asked to teach about Egypt.’’ While I was in the

class I also had

by: Kenisha

Taking it Back to Egypt