Marcus' First Blog

We started the second day of the second week a little differently. We waited outside the classroom for Ms. Nakada, who was not available at the moment. For the time, she would be replaced by the new assistant principle, who apparently taught English in earlier years. She greeted us as, "eighth grade scholars," as we walked into the classroom. 

We pulled out our binder reminders to write down the Agenda: Take a minute, Blog Corrections, readers workshop School Trip, Week 2: Quote, Question, Book Distribution, and the homework: RJ 2.2 School Trip, p. 100-129 and summary. We then reviewed the pages that were read yesterday, p. 76-99. 

After that, we told the assistant principal (Ms. DeRoss) the three words chosen for Friday last week, because we didn't get to the reading journal yesterday. She then taught a lesson on parts of speech, based on the words that we chose on Friday last week. 

Finally, Ms. Nakada entered the room during the lesson, and explained that she had a meeting with the principal of Mark Twain. After, we then took a minute and reviewed Otem's Blog (which was very good and entertaining) for blog corrections. It was now time for the readers workshop, going through yesterday's pages for homework. We discussed Maury's privileges from his wealth, flying first class and ordering room service, Jordan's pairing with Andy, and how Americans usually don't sit themselves down to eat the meals while in France they do sit themselves down for the meals showing the differences in culture. The words we chose were etiquette, roomies, and new culture.