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Students started the year by taking the True Colors Personality Test to learn about their personality type. Once we learned about our personalities, we discussed how we communicate and work with others, especially if their personality is different from ours. We created "t-shirts" to represent our colors, even including words that describe our personalities.

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Follow the link to take the True Colors Test for yourself. See what your color means and learn more about how you communiate with others, at work, at school, and in relationships. Open the document to learn about each color's characteristics.
https://lonerwolf.com/true-colors-personality-test/

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After learning specific details of their colors, students set out to write their first essay of the year answering the prompt, "Choose three of your True Color characteristics and explain how these are the BEST representations of your personality." We began with a graphic organizer to help organize our thoughts. We wrote three thesis statements and participated in a round robin thesis statement activity. Tablemates read each others' thesis statements and rated each one 1-3. After choosing the best thesis statement, students began crafting the body paragraphs.

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"Literacy Changes Lives" -- A study of the readings from authors and activists about the importance of literacy, including Dr. King, Malcolm X, Alexie Sherman , Frederick Douglass, and Stephen King.

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Learning about ourselves helps us understand how we act and react to events in our lives. After our essays, we wrote poems using an event that changes us somehow. We had to be sure to include words that described us. Then, we took selfies, printed them out, and got super creative