Zurie's Super Swag Blog

Agenda:

- take a minute

- blog corrections

- reader's workshop

- Week 6: Song and Lines

- Homework: RJ 6.2 Read for 20-30 minutes and record. Book Projects.

    Today after everyone sat down for third period English, everyone took a minute to take out their stuff and write the agenda in their binder reminders. After everyone was done, Ms. Nakada read Giana's blog because she was unfortunately and conveniently not here. She then corrected a few of her mistakes and since Giana wasn't here, Ms. Nakada made the horrible choice to make me do the second to last blog. After I went up to the desk, everyone took a few minutes to read their books. Then, Ms. Nakada played the song of the week "Soy Yo" by Bomba Estéreo. After playing the song once, the Spanish expert Charles claimed he could sing the whole song perfectly in Spanish. He absolutely could not. Everyone listened to the song and watched the video laughing and talking about it a lot. The class agreed that they thought the song was about being unapologetically proud of yourself.

    After playing the song and writing what they thought the meaning of the song was, we then moved onto the lines. The lines were "The Contract Says: We'd Like the Conversation to Be Bilingual" by Ada Limon. The lines were actually quite long and there was a lot more than we expected. Ms. Nakada talked about it and she explained what some parts meant. How Ada Limon's father played a big part in doing bad things in her story. After looking at the lines, we wrote down our favorite one. At the end of the period with six minutes left, everyone was told to either read or work on their book project. After a long few minutes of silence, the bell rung and the class was off to fourth period.