ELA: Love, Family & Friends Assignments

ELA: Love, Family & Friends Assignments

"Golden Girl" assignment:

How can friendship sometimes be destructive or harmful?  How can we recognize this?  What do you need in a friend? 

"Instructions to my Mother" poem assignment:

How can you relate to your parents or guardians?  What do you or can you do when you are misunderstood?

"On the Sidewalk Bleeding' short story assignment:

How can friendship sometimes be destructive or harmful?  How can we recognize this?  What do you need in a friend?  Why do we sometimes seek out negative friendships? 

Romeo & Juliet assignment/lesson:

This lyric poem is about an ordinary event but it expresses a moment of intense 

emotion for the speaker. 

"The Art of Friendship" poem by Wilfer Arlan Peterson to use for assignments:

"The Masks of Love" poem by Alden Nowlan assignment:

This lyric poem is about an ordinary event but it expresses a moment of intense emotion for the speaker. Although the words “mask” and “love” will not appear in the poem, they are used in the title. What do masks do? How and why do we use our facial expressions to mask our true feelings?