Declan's Second Blog

Agenda:

blog - corrections

CreaTober

The Outsiders Ch.12

Quick Write 

Week 9 Quiz

T.O. Book v. Movie

We started off the class with reading Alejandro's blog. He wasn't here today, so Ms. Nakada read his blog. I was chosen to do today's blog. We then started to correct Alejandro's blog, and started to do our CreaTobers for the day. Oh, and it's also a kind of cool day today, Friday the 13th, which was also one of the CreaTober prompts. Then, Emily went up to show her CreaTobers to the class. 

After that, Ms. Nakada went around the class to do the reading journal check. We just finished The Outsiders book, and the ending was pretty unexpected. Ms. Nakada then started to explain the last chapter of the book. Ponyboy goes to court with Darry and Soda, and Ponyboy is still convincing us that he killed Bob, when Johnny actually did. This makes Ponyboy an unreliable narrator. Ponyboy was stressed about what he was going to tell the judge, but the judge just told Ponyboy to stop chewing his fingernails. Huh. And then we discussed how Ponyboy's life is going downhill. Ponyboy then goes to the grocery store, and runs into the Socs. He threatened the Socs with a glass bottle, and breaks it. When the Socs leave, Ponyboy picks up the glass, so no one gets a flat tire. Ponyboy's two sides (good and bad) are coming in play.

Then, Ms. Nakada passed out the class's quick writes, for any people that haven't finished them. And, Ms. Nakada remembered, we forgot to do our lines for the week. We then, started to talk about and read our lines for the week, "Invisible Fish" by Joy Harjo. Akira talked about how the lines related to our song of the week, "Hawaii '78" by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. She was basically saying all of the old is getting depleted by the new. Now, it was time to start the quiz for this week. The bell rang, and it was time to head to fourth period.