Eli's First Blog

AGENDA
take a minute
blog - corrections
SCHOOL TRIP
Week 3: Song / Lines
Back to School Night

HW: RJ 3.3 School Trip p. 230 - 250. 

We started the day off like always with a minute of a box breathing video while people wrote their daily agendas down or doodled. After this, we went over Omar's blog correcting any punctuation, spelling errors, or capitalization mistakes. Then, deciding to make a cruel unjust and horrible decision, Omar chose me for the blog. 

After that we had a conversation about the book School Trip by Jerry Craft, talking about what happened in the book, character changes, lessons and other interesting things that happened in the book; then came up with three words for our reading journal about said book which were: thumbs-downer, lessons, reflection, and an extra word which was, reality. Then, Ms. Nakada proceeded to discuss and talk about a small French field trip she was trying to plan and get accepted for all of us to go too. 

After, we moved onto our Week 3 Quote: Question Song lines, this week we used a quote from School Trip, today we are working on our question, "How can we balance hard work and taking time for ourselves?" Our teacher's answer was that she would implement workshop Wednesdays, inspired by how the French don't have schools on Wednesday. Then we moved onto our song and quote. Today's song was "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" by Edith Piaf. We listened to the song and after discussed what the song was about and what the song writer meant with the lyrics. Most of us concluded it was to forget your mistakes and not regretting anything including happiness and sadness. We then picked favorite lines. 

Then we started making an invitation for our parents for after-school night, which included the schedule for it and what was going to be there. All of us were given a piece of blank paper then folded it into a card, on the front we put "You're invited to... Back to School Night!" and then the date and time for when it was. On the inside we started writing the schedule like what teachers were in which room, and when the parent meeting was. Then, poems were passed out to glue in our books so we could go over. She gave us "The Orange" by Wendy Cope. We all packed up getting ready to leave to fourth period.