Greetings and Welcome to Room 109's ELA Blog!

My name is Shelly Cunningham and the writing posted here is a result of A LOT of hard work by the students of Room 109.  My students are from Dewey Middle School (MS 136) and Sunset Park Academy (MS 821).  We have spent the last 4 weeks together doing some critical thinking about our reading and then writing about it.  This work includes their independent reading as well as the short story All Summer in a Day  by Ray Bradbury, and a collection of Poems by Martin Espada, New Bathroom Policy at English High School, Revolutionary Spanish Lesson, and Two Mexicanos Lynched in Santa Cruz, California, May 3, 1877.  Here you will find the work that makes them (and me) very proud.  Enjoy!