Tali's Second Blog

AGENDA

Blog corrections

CreaTober

RJ set-up

Week 11: QQSL

T.O. book vs movie

HW

RJ 11.1 read for 20-30 mins or IXL

Book projects are due Wednesday

Today was like any other normal third period English. We came in from nutrition and immediately started writing down the agenda. Milan went up to read her blog, and then made the very random choice to choose me as the next blog writer. I was unprepared and therefore had taken all of my stuff out, so I had to put it all back in my backpack and squeeze through the chairs and to the front. 

Ms. Nakada then told us the CreaTober prompts for the day. Just like that the classroom was silent as students were scribbling away madly, their creative juices flowing  Kingsley, Riley, and of course Charles and Ms. Nakada shared their CreaTober drawings for the day. Ms. Nakada announced that the people who went to Catalina (including me) would have until the next day (Tuesday) to finish their Reading Journals and QQSL from last week.  We set up this week's Reading Journal and updated the Book vs Movie page in our English Notebooks. We wrote about how The Outsiders movie remained faithful to the book when Cherry threw the Coke and said "things are rough all over," and that Johnny kills Bob. The movie, however, did not include the opening chapter of the book when Ponyboy gets jumped, or the entire Soda/Sandy subplot. 

We started this week's Quote and Question. The Quote was "If there is a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." - Toni Morrison. The class talked about how this American author means that if you really want something, you need to make it happen. The Question of the week was "Do teachers assign too much homework?" We all had mixed emotions, mentioning how Ms. Dillmore scarred us for life with IXLs last year, but we've had plenty of teachers who went easy on the homework. Ms. Nakada then talked a little about National Novel Writing Month and how it is coming up soon. Everyone is going to have to work a lot next month if they want to write 20,000 words. Ms. Nakada started The Outsiders movie from the scene with Ponyboy in the hospital and we watched until the scene where Sodapop and Two-Bit visited Dally in the hospital. Then the bell rang and everyone went off to fourth period. 

- Tali