HMS Marching Band

Highlands Middle School Marching Band

Jr. Lilac Parade

Spokane, Washington

May 11, 2012

Video of Marching Band in action.

Nevermore: A Photobiography of Edgar Allen Poe
By Karen E. Lange

QN 129587

RL 7.8
PTS 2.0
INT MG

Genre: Biography

Award: VOYA

921

Poe

 “And lo! from among those sable draperies where the sounds of the song departed, there came forth a dark and undefined shadow – a shadow such as the moon, when low in heaven, might fashion from the figure of a man: but it was the shadow neither of man nor of God, nor of any familiar thing.” Shadow – A Parable by Edgar Allen Poe

Goto the following to read the whole parable

http://www.online-literature.com/poe/2193/

 Goto for help in the interpretation

http://stylusofiron.hubpages.com/hub/An-interpretation-of-Edgar-Allan-Poes-The-Shadow

Edgar Allen Poe is one of my favorite authors.  He sears visual image into the mind with his words. I try to encourage students in my 6^th, 7^th and 8^th grade classes to give Poe a try, even though it may be above their reading level.

Nevermore: A Photobiography of Edgar Allen Poe is a very good basic portrait of the man and his life though pictures of him, his family, and artifacts surrounding his life.  Reading the quotations in the book that come from his works may lead students to find and attempt to understand some of his short stories or poems.  One will find why he struggled as a writer in the early to mid-eighteen hundreds.

Mr. Roberts

Dead End in Norvelt

by Jack Gantos

QN 146010

RL 5.7
PTS 12.0
INT MG
 

Genre: Historical Fiction

Award: Newbery

F

Gan

I was never grounded as a child, but I was restricted from going places. I couldn’t go anywhere without telling mom or when she was away from the house. We always had to hang around and try to find something fun to do. I think this got us into more trouble than going playing with students on the block. Jack has been grounded for the summer by his Mom.  She is very upset that Jack mowed down her garden which helps feed the poor. His father is mad that Jack cambered a round in his antique Japanese rifle. Jack is only allowed out when the local medical examiner calls for his help to write obituaries of longtime resident of Norvelt for the town newspaper.  The story is wrapped in a mystery of why these old folks are dying and the town itself.  Lot of humor mixed in with Jack nose bleeds, a bomb shelter, and an airplane.

Mr. Roberts

Superguy: Cat Hair

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