Abraham Lincoln High School
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Ms. Shamira Gratch
Street Cred: I have been a Lincoln High School teacher since 2002. I have a MA in literature from Mills College, a MA degree in Education from SFSU, a CLAD teaching credential from SFSU and a B.A. in Literature and Women’s Studies from the University of California of Santa Cruz.
Me: I enjoy the creative challenges of teaching and learning. I am enthusiastic about teaching because I love to learn, and I love to learn with and from my students. I hope in my class, you begin to understand how to read and write in a more complex and expressive way. I have no life outside of teaching
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How to Contact Me
- Room: tB-14
- E-mail: shamirasivan@yahoo.com
My Courses
- Honors American Lit 11th grade period:7th
- American Lit 11th grade period: 6th
- Ethnic Lit 10th grade periods: 2nd, 4th, 5th
My Notes
Summer Reading: Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut OR The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.
Basic Literary Terms: Test. Friday Sept 5. STUDY!
See calender for other tests coming up.
This week: Tue: Basic Lit. Terms Practice: examples
Basic Lit Terms: apply to prose passage from "The Doggfather"
Wed/Thurs: Finish "The Doggfather"
Denotation and Connotation exercises
Fri.: Basic Lit Terms Test
Select Outside reading from book list
Summer reading:
Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Mah Monster by Walter Dean Myers.
Basic Literary Terms: Test. Friday Sept 5. STUDY!
See calender for other tests coming up.
This week: Tue: Basic Lit. Terms Practice: examples
Basic Lit Terms: apply to prose passage from "The Doggfather"
Wed/Thurs: Finish "The Doggfather"
Denotation and Connotation exercises
Fri.: Basic Lit Terms Test
Select Outside reading from book list
Basic Literary Terms Test: Friday Sept 5
See calender for other upcoming test dates.
Tues: Discuss Basic Lit term practice examples.
Review "A Rose for Emily" homework begin thinking about connections to "The Unvanquished"
Wed: Reference handouts
Develop connections between "A Rose for Emily" and "The Unvanquished"
Denotation/Connotation: poem analysis
Fri: Basic Lit. terms test
Outside reading list
A Rose for Emily and T
10th grade Ethnic Lit.
Book Project One Jan 5-9
Book Project Two May 25-29
11th grade American Lit
Book Project One: Jan 5-9
Book Project Two: May 25-29
Honors American Literature
Book Project One: Dec 15-19
Book Project Two: March 16-20
Book Project Three: May 25-29
My Files
Metaphor for Learning assignment
First Day:Student Info
Beat Writers
Beat Generation Assignment
Beat Museum
Beat ScavengerHunt
Context And Background :The Beat Generation
This Is The Beat Generation
Catcher in the Rye
Catcher: Creative Writing Assignments
Crucible
Pre Reading Discussion
Capitalism And Communism Are As Follows
Characterization Chart
Compare And Contrast
Crucible Character Chart
Crucible End Of Acts
Crucible Vocab
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive Webarchive
Salem/Puritan Background
sinners in the hands.. assignment
Socratic Seminar Crucible
The Crucible Acting.doc
The Crucible Computer Lab Assignment.doc
The Crucible Reading Journal
The Devil
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson 1
Emily Dickinson P 746
Emily Dickinson Poem Presentation Assignment
Emily Dickinson Poem?S
Emily Dickinson Poems (textbook assignments)
Essay Writing: Reference Handouts
Citation Guidelines
Citations: How to
Essay Writing: To Do and Not To Do
Name Essay (assignment)
PEER EDIT.doc
Revise Your In Class Essay
SAT Essay Prompts
The Basic Structure Of A Literature Essay
Tips And Examples: Thesis Statements
What Is A Thesis Statement
General Journal Prompts
Dialectical Journal
Journal Questions
Grammar
Articles Determiners Quantifiers
Clauses
EPOS: Adjectives
EPOS: Conjunctions
EPOS: Interjections
EPOS: Nouns
EPOS: Preposition Vs Adverb
EPOS: Pronouns
EPOS: Verb Tenses
EPOS: Verbs And Verbals
EPOS: worksheet: Nouns/Pronoun
EPOS:Adverbs
EPOS:Prepositions
Fragments
Parallel Structure
Parts Of The Sentence Review-1
Passive And Active Voices
Phrases
Predicates
Run On Sentences And Comma Splices
Subject Verb Agreement
Transitions And Coherence
Grapes of Wrath
Archetypes 101
GOW Preface Questions
Grapes Of Wrath Study Guide part 1
Grapes Of Wrath/Archetypes 101 Assign
Grapes Of Wrath/Biblical allusions
Grapes Of Wrath/Chapter QuestionsThe Grapes Of Wrath
Grapes Of Wrath/GOW Chpt5 Socratic Seminar
Grapes Of Wrath/Imitate Steinbeck
Grapes Of Wrath/Jung Archetypes
Grapes Of Wrath/Metaphors:Nature
Grapes Of Wrath/THEMES ANALYSIS
Great Gatsby
Close Reading Chapter Six The Great Gatsby
Close Reading Gatsby Chapter Two
Discussion Questions 1-3
Gatsby Newspaper Project
Gatsby 4-6-7
Gatsby Chpt1 Characterization
Gatsby Project/Front Page Demo
Gatsby Project/How To Textbox:Picture
Nothing Gold Can Stay
primary source analysis.pdf
Primary Source Search
Searching For Primary Source Materials Related To The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby Reading Journal
The Great Gatsby Speak Easy
Trimalchio In West Egg
TS Eliot: The Hollow Men
What is the American Dream?
Huck Finn
after reading questions
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Dialect And Huck Finn
Discussion Questions Race
Huck Finn Related Poetry
Huck Finn Timeline 1
Huck Finn: 1-12 Questions
Huck River Shore
Huck Study Gd
Is Huck Finn A Racist Book
Jim Questions
Langston Hughes: Minstrel
N Word
Rise Of Realism
Satire And Huck Finn
Satire Assignment
Silent Debate
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Questions
Time Line Of African American History
Timeline Assignment
Individualism/Dark Side of
Edgar Allen Poe pg.doc
Fall of the House of Usher
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The Raven By Edgar Allen Poe
Lone Ranger
Indian Education Chpt 18.doc
Lone Range Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven
Lone Ranger 12 13 16 17
Lone Ranger 19-22
Lone Ranger 9-11
Lone Ranger Pre Read
Lone Ranger... Reading Schedule
Night
1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945
Elie Changes Essay
final solution.doc
Night And Science Fiction
Night Big Ideas
Night Group Discussion
Rise Of The Nazi Party
ww2 vocab.doc
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice And Men The Scrapbook
Othello
Analyzing Tragedy
Definition - Tragedy
Othello Act 1 Study Guide.doc
othello journal questions.doc
Othello Journal: Act 1-2
Othello Study Guide Act 4 Scene 1.doc
Othello Vocaab List 1-5.doc
Othello Vocab act 1.doc
Othello/Subtext
Shakespeare's language.doc
Outside Book Project
Reading List
Outside Book Project Format
Performance
Performance rubric.doc
Persuasion
logos, pathos, ethos
Persuasion/Ad Dissection 101 Webarchive
persuasive tech. 2
persuasive tech.1
print ad: 1 example
print ads: 3 examples
Poetry Unit
Explication Example, ~0073
Glossary Of Poetry Terms
Poetry Drill
Poetry Drill II (Vendler)
Poetry terms: list
Poetry Unit/Persona, Tone, And Voice
Poetry Unit/Phonetic Intensives
Poetry Websites
Sonnet 130
Sound And Rhythm
The Dance
Tone Words
Raisin in the Sun
Act Two Performance-Assignments
AM. dream background/quotes
Civil Rights 55-68
Dream Deferred
Let America Be
Make it look like a news article
Newspaper assignment/example
Raisin In Sun Final Projects
Raisin In Sun/Sympathy
white flight: article/?s
Reference Handouts
Assignment: Sensory and I am poems
Assignment: Sensory and Simile
Basic Literary Terms (ref.)
Characterization (ref.)
Close Reading Example and Practice (1)
Close Reading Practice (4)
Close Reading Practice (5)
Den/Con Poems and practice
Diction (ref)
How To Read Critically
LEAD: Diction Analysis (ref)
Plot (ref)
Point Of View (ref)
Rhetorical Devices (ref)
Setting (ref)
Style And Syntax Analysis Worksheet
Syntax (ref)
Syntax And Style (ref)
Syntax Practice 1
Syntax Practice 2
Syntax Practice 3
Theme And Tone (ref)
Revolutionary Writing
Civil Disobedience
Handout Ideas & Structure Of Declaration of Indep
Let America Be (Hughes)
Let America Be- Poem
Revolutionary Writing/Transc. "Big Ideas
Revolutionary Writing/Declare Your Own Independence
Science Fiction
Essay Process step 3
Journal: Harrison Bergeron
Journal: Sound Of Thunder
Journal: There Will be Soft Rains
Reading Journal: The Pedestrian
Science Fiction Essay: Step 2
Science Fiction Unit: Into
Tech Quotes: Themes Intro
Sociolinguistics: Intro
Field Linguistic Assignment
Sociolinguistics 1
You Are Multilingual
Socratic Seminar
/Users/Shamiragratch/Documents/Socratic Seminar Instr/Soc Sem Score Sheet
/Users/Shamiragratch/Documents/Socratic Seminar Instr/Socrat Sem Foundation
Syllabus
2008 11th Grade Syllabus
2008 10th Grade Syllabus
2008 11th Grade Honors Syllabus
Transcendentalism
Civil Disobedience
Civil disobedience.doc
Poems By Walt Whitman Pg396
Self Reliance & Civil Disobed. Questions
Self Reliance Questions
Self Reliance Quotes
Self Reliance Text
Self reliance.doc
Self- Reliance Hmwk
Self-Reliance Hmwk
Thoreau Quotes
What Is Transcendentalism
Vocab/grammar 2008
Roots and Prefix list
11th grade vocab list
honors: vocab list
Roots and Prefix list 2008
Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Textual Analysis Group Work
Foods: Shaman
Foot binding
Journal: A Song For A Barbarian Reed Pipe
Journal: At The Western Palace
Journal: No Name
Journal: Shaman Homework
Journal: White Tiger
No Name: Reading Objectives
Satire: Nacerima
Shaman Example/Irony
Shaman: In Class and Ghost Project
Stories And Language
Vocabulary (No Name)
My Calendar
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Lincoln Facts
- Principal: Ronald Pang
- Pupil Services: Jennifer Fong
- Curricular: Kristin Cacal
- Buildings/Grounds & Co-Curricular: Barnaby Payne
Contact Lincoln
- Mail: 2162 24th Ave
San Francisco, CA 94116 - Phone: 415-759-2700
- Fax: 415-566-2224
- Hours: 7:15 AM - 4:15 PM
(Monday through Friday) - E-mail: sch405@sfusd.edu
Contact Website
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