Well class,
We have come to the end of our journey! =) My experience with your class was a great one. In essence, our class was like a roller coaster ride. We had some ups as well as some downs. Above all though, we had a fun class where we learned about great time periods and improved our grammar (well...some of you who actually completed the work and paid attention). And although at times some of you asked "Ms. why do we have to read this?" or "why do we have to do this?" I am sure that you learned valuable information from the material we covered this year.

It is a bitter sweet goodbye because although I am happy that the school year is over, believe it or not I am going to miss our class. I am going to miss everyone one of you! I wish you endless luck in your future endevours and hold on for the ride of your life because junior year will seriously be over in a blink of an eye! =)

For this last blog entry, I want you to write me a reflection post. (This is similar to the reflection letter that we have done for each portfolio throughout the marking periods. However, being that we did not have time, your autobiography project and this letter will count as your 4th markig period portfolio grade.)


In this blog spot I want you to reflect on what we covered this year.

- Include your favorite book, poem, short story, and/or other literary work that we have covered.

- Include your favorite activity and an explanation as to why this was your favorite activity.
               (I could almost picture someone like George or Big Boy saying "Ms. what if I didn't have favorite    book or activity?" And altough I am going to really find this HARD TO BELIEVE because we did a lot of fun activities to make the not so interesting material, fun. Well for those of you like George and Big Boy, you would tell about the book and activity that you disliked the most with an explanation as to why you disliked it the most.

- Include what you learned.

- The last part of your blog should be labeled like this:


A word of advice:

The title is self-explanatory. For this part, I want you to give some advice for the in-coming sophomores.

               - Include what to do in class.
               - Include what not to do.
               - Include what ANNOYS ME for students to do in class.
             - Include any word of advice that you believe if you knew before hand, would  
                have helped you done better in class.

 One last thing guys. Good luck! I better see ALL OF YOU graduating in 2012! You were my very first class and like I told you all, you are my babies. With this said, I expect to see you all on the field in June 2012. Please don't let me down.

Ms. Benitez =)

Ethan Frome Video

Go to the following website and watch the parody video. Very funny! =)



Click the links below:
Ethan Frome's Parody
Ethan Frome Music Video

Ethan Frome- Characterization Activity

In the opening chapters of Ethan Frome the readers are given more than enough information about the main characters. Right from the very beginning, the author vividly describes the main characters of the novel and makes the reader feel as if one truly knows the characters.


For this assignment you  are to choose a character from the novel and complete the following:

      1. Find an image that best describes the character.
               Describe why this image best describes the character.

      2. Find a song that best goes with the character.
                 Describe why this song best goes with this character.

      3. Write a brief description of the character using 3 examples or evidence from the novel. Description must be one to two paragraphs.

Have fun! :)