Alejandro's First Blog

 Agenda:

Take a minute

Blog Corrections

Reader's Workshop

Week 5 Q-Q-S-S

A.C.E/Book Projects

HW: RJ 5.3 Read for 20-30 min. & log

    Today started off as a regular Wednesday. We walked in and Ms. Nakada thanked us for being a good class. Then, everyone wrote down the agenda as Ms. Nakada played a minute of calming exercises.  Tali then read her blog and chose me to write the next one. Everyone then took out a book and read silently for five minutes. We then went over the lines for the week, which we continued from yesterday. The poem was called "Theme for English B," by Langston Hughes, which Ms. Nakada said was a prose poem.  We then talked about what the poem was about and what we thought of it. The class thought that this poem was about a person of color responding to their teacher, a sort of autobiography about him, to his teacher. We then talked about when Langston Hughes was alive, and what he witnessed and experienced.

    After we finished talking about the poem, Ms. Nakada had us write an A.C.E. The entirety of the class had a flashback as we all remembered how Ms. Graham had us write a huge amount of them. We then gave us a paper and told us that we needed to do the A.C.E prompts. The class chose to write about how Maury was using his money for privilege during the Paris trip. The class wrote down the A.C.E. prompt and turned in their School Trip books. Most students finished, but those who didn't got interrupted by the bell and had to stop as we walked off to fourth period.