Isaac's Super Fantastic Blog

 Agenda:

Take a minute

Blog-Corrections

Reader's workshop: School Trip

R.J. Check Binder Check

Week 2: Song Lines

The Writing Process Quiz

HW Have a good weekend

    The day started as any normal Friday in our English third period class. The class started by going over Alex's blog and making corrections to her blog. The class then decided to ruthlessly pick me to be the next blog writer, as Alex was absent today. Ms. Nakada then checked everyone's binders. We then took out our School Trip books, and talked about what happened this chapter. We then started talking about food and delicious food people had gotten in places like Japan. Then, Ronan started pointing fingers at Charles for embarrassing them in Japan. We then went back on topic and continued talking about School Trip. We talked about how this chapter was about peoples hopes and dreams in RAD. We also talked about how, very, very American Andy is. We then chose our "three" words food, experimental, difference, Maury, and dreams. Ms. Nakada then checked everyone's reading journals.

    Then, we moved on to finishing our QQSL, as we had already done Quote and Question. We started off by listening to "Whats Goin On?" by Marvin Gaye. Then, we discussed what this song was about and our favorite lines. Before we could discuss, and unexpected guest came by. She was a former Emerson student, and she gave us advice for Eighth grade and High School. We then moved back to the song. We talked about how this song was about protests, maybe a reference to the government, and inter-generational conflict. We also talked about how this song isn't really universal as parents didn't realize how their children felt. We also discussed what our favorite lines were, such as "Picket lines and picket signs don't punish me with brutality". We then moved on to the lines of this week, "I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was the jail of other peoples interests; the library was open, unending, free." By Ta-Nehisi Coates. We talked about the quote and what he thought about school. We came to the conclusion that he probably thought that school was very structured. After that, we discussed if schools were made to perpetuate domination, and we didn't really come to a conclusion.

With nine minutes left, we attempted to get caught up about the writing process so we could take the quiz. Moving on to discussing the writing process, we learned the writing process is pre-writing, then drafting, after that is revising, then editing, and lastly you publish. Then, we packed up and left to fourth period.

Sincerely, 

Isaac

P.S. Y'all are so mean :(