Isaac's Super Fantastic Blog #2

Agenda:

take a minute

reader's workshop/RJ check

Step-Up to Writing

week 7 Quiz

HW

Happy weekend!

Creatober Starts Sunday

    The class started off as any normal day in Ms. Nakada's English class. We came in and sat down, got our binder reminders out and wrote down the agenda. Kingsley, (before class), had said he was going to pick Charles for the blog because Charles pointed at him to do the blog. Then, Kingsley read his blog, and Ms. Nakada corrected it. Kingsley then did a spin move, which landed somewhere near Charles, then pointed to the other side of the room, picking me. I was so shocked at this because why do a spin move if you're gonna pick someone on the other side of the room. Now, I won't trust Kingsley again. Anyways, Ms. Nakada told us that she was going to go around checking Reading Journals, and while she does we can read. While Ms. Nakada was checking Reading Journals, she told us that she can not give credit to us if our three words do not include the big parts of the chapter.

    After a long while of sitting in silence and reading, we began talking about the chapter. We talked about how the chapter got worse very quickly, going from sunsets, to parks, to murder. Ms. Nakada then explained how the three word summary wasn't stupid, but an overview of each chapter. We then went over our "three" words, murder, shock, and church. We then talked about how Johnny and Ponyboy could have handled the situation better than running away. We talked about how they could've pled self-defense, we also talked about how they are minors and this is their first offense so it wouldn't have been that bad. We moved on to when they went to Dally for help. Then, we do a VERY quick skim through/summary of the chapter, talking about key points like murder, Dally, the train, and the church. We went into more detail about the flashback to when Johnny and Ponyboy had been to a church before, and how there is more foreshadowing because Ponyboy had an unsettling feeling about the church. Then, we went in and put our sticky notes in. 

    We moved on to our Step-Up to Writing Notes. We finished our diagram about how to write using the color coded strategy. We talked about how saying, "This is easy," is basically saying that, (for everyone who thinks that this is not in fact easy), that they are stupid. 

    We moved on to our week 7 Quiz. Everyone got quiet, and we started the quiz. Well, it took everyone *cough* *cough* Marcus, to get quiet. Then, we started the quiz. We finished the Quiz and Ms. Nakada talked about Creatober, where Ms. Nakada is going to give us 5-7 minutes to create something based on the prompt for that day. The bell was about to ring, so we packed up and headed off to fourth period.

-The Amazing Blog-Writer Isaac

P.S. Adrian you're next. 😉