Ashlyn's first blog

AGENDA

take a minute

blog-corrections

School  Trip/ RJ

WEEK 3 Song Lines Quiz

We started off the day like we normally did. We took out our binder reminders, right the agenda. Lunden then read her blog and chose me. I was kinda happy so I wouldn't have to be chosen by anybody else. But my mood was soon destroyed because my paper fell on the floor, but whatever. We started to talk about the a/an rule and when to use. We then took out our School Trip books and started to talk about the end of the book. Ms Nakada started to tell us about how her mom told her not to read a Judy Blume book. She then said that she read it and it had things about ***. She related it to how School Trip has bullying and nobody does it, so why would it affect someone's child. She then said that our parents should decide what we read. We started to talk about how somethings change but others didn't. He gave Kirk a Euro so he could have bigger dreams.

We then got a throw back to New Kid book fair. We started to talk more about idioms. When Mr. Roche was talking to Jordan and Drew and threw in all the Jerry Craft book titles.We then had a small argument on whether the basketball coach was Jordan or a new coach (it was a new coach). We then started to do our three word summary. The three words were fin, change, and interestingly enough Batman. The people who could do the quiz did it, and the people who couldn't, started to pack up.

Lunden's First Blog

 Agenda

Take a minute blog-correction

School Trip

Week 3: Song/Lines Back to School Night

HW RJ 3.3 School Trip 

p. 220-250 & summary

We walked into class. Got our binder reminders out and wrote our agenda down. After that, Ashlyn volunteered to read Enrique's blog, because he was absent. Once, Ashlyn was done reading Enrique's blog, I got chosen to do the blog next. While I started typing my blog, everyone else got out their School Trip books and began to review chapter eight. When reviewing chapter eight, we were talking about how people usually don't stop to look at the stars on the sidewalk in Hollywood. We also talked about how some characters learned new things while being on their trip to Paris. For example, Andy learned to apologize to Ramon. When we finished reviewing chapter eight we got out our English notebooks and wrote down our summary. We then, read the poem of the week, "The Orange" by Wendy Cope and began discussing the poem. We noticed that in the poem there was a rhyme scheme. Ms. Nakada then handed out paper for us to make an invitation for back to school night. We make a little booklet with one side showing our schedules, and another showing a little letter for our parents. The bell rings and we pack up, leaving school once again.

Enrique's First Blog

Agenda:

take a minute

blog - corrections

School Trip

the writing process

week 3 QQ

    So, today for sixth period, we came into class, sat down, opened up our binder reminders, and wrote down the homework.  Then, Alejandro went up in front of the class and read his blog. What a loser! (literally, just kidding) He then chose me, smh. We took out our notebooks and started writing the RJ, and  then we started reading School Trip.  We discussed the characters and what happened while we were reading. Then, we took our Personal Writing Processes out to then turn them in. 

    Then, we began to silently read School Trip. After that, we continued our quote, question, song, and lines for week 3.  We began listening to "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rein," by Edith Piaf.  Next, we discussed the song and what it meant and wrote it down in our notebooks.  At the end of class, Ms. Nakada handed out the poem lines of the poem written by Wendy Cope, called "The Orange".

Alejandro's First Blog

AGENDA 

Take a minute blog-corrections

Week 2 wrap-up

The Writing Process

Week 3: Q.Q.

HW: 

RJ 3.1 School Trip pg. 154-185

We started off the day with writing the agenda in our planners while doing our meditation. Then, Miles read off his blog. After that, he chose me, Alejandro. We then started correcting his blog. Afterwards, we talked about the personal writing process which is five sentences. Then, some kids didn't take the quiz, so they took it while we were doing the personal writing process. After that, we moved on to the table of contents week three. Then, we did week 3 Quote - Question - Song - Lines. The Quote was by a character in School Trip: "In France, we work in order to live. But in America it seems you live in order to work." Sylvie from School Trip by Jerry Craft.   After, the bell rang randomly, and we left school.

Miles' First Blog

Agenda 

Take a minute 

Blog corrections

reader's workshop School Trip

RJ and binder check

week two song lines 

the writing process and quiz 

HW: Have a good weekend.

We first went over Devin's blog that had almost no corrections. That was a difference between this class and my old class. Then, I got picked. That was unfortunate.  Then, we started to go over School Trip, and we started to point things out in the book. Next, Enrique interrupted the class to use the bathroom. That was funny. 

We then got back to class, we then saw that in the ice cream shop there were a bunch of weird flavors. We then started on our three words. The words were Adventure, French, and Lifestyle. Andy orders a burger and his card declines. Luckily, Maury, is able to pay. Ms. Nakada then checks our reading logs. We then grade our logs. That was cool. Now we turn to our song lines, and I got a paper cut.  We go over our favorite lines. Mine was "You see, war is not the answer." We now go to the Table Of Contents and write some things. We now talk about the writing process, and what we have written in the past years. We also talk about Drafting and Revising. We had a debate on how grammar was written, and we finally took the quiz.

  

Devin's First Blog

AGENDA
take a minute
blog - corrections
reader's workshop: School Trip
Week 2: QQSL
The Writing Process

HW: RJ 2.3 School Trip p. 130 - 153 and summary

We walked into sixth period, and I was ready for the day to be over. We took a minute while writing the agenda. When the minute was over, Ms. Nakada made sure and Ms. Nakada called Lena up to read her blog. Ms. Nakada quickly fixed up Lena's blog and asked us to take out School Trip. Lena realized she forgot to call on someone and picked me, traitor. 

Ms. Nakada went over chapter six and we discussed the it. Although in the middle of discussion three kids came in and asked to switch his classes. People snickered. Ms. Nakada did not like that. Once she was done we went back to analyzing the chapter. Next, Ms. Nakada turned to the table of contents and wrote the quote of the week by bell hook. We talked about capitalism and social hierarchies. When we finished talking about the quote we starting talking about the question of the week: What do you think about school? We had a very lengthy discussion about the grossness of the school, especially in the bathrooms. After that, we listened to the song of the week: "What's Goin' On?" by Marvin Gaye. We looked over the quote, and the bell rang, finally, and the day was over. 

Lena's First Blog

AGENDA
take a minute
blog - corrections
reader's workshop
SCHOOL TRIP 
Week 2 QQSL
Book Distribution

HW: RJ 2.2 School Trip p 100 - 129 and summary

We all walked into class and sat down, brought our binder reminders out, listened to the meditation, and wrote down our work. Then, Ms. Nakada passed out a new book for us while Larry read his blog aloud. He was very nervous, so we all encouraged him. It did not work. After he read, I volunteered and began to write. Then, we all wrote our name on our books. We then began blog corrections, and Ashlyn pointed out that Ms. Nakada had forgotten to take attendance. Then, Ms. Nakada gossiped with us about students and told a story about when she was in school. It was about "Bad Idea Jeans." After, we finished blog-corrections and she gave us some advice about writing. I also complained about the weight of the books, I am still angry about this, Ms. Nakada. Then, we took our School Trip book that we're reading. Then, we began to go over what we read the previous night, we skimmed through and spoke to each other about the contents of the chapter. We spoke about what was going wrong in the story, racism against Maury, and plane etiquette. Then, we came up with our summary. After that, we took a quiz that we'd been trying to take for a week. Finally, we finished, and we were dismissed!