Spectacular Sad Sammy's Third Blog

 Agenda 

- Take a minute

- Blog corrections 

- Spring syllabus 

- Week 1 QQSL

- Reader's workshop IO&BA 

Homework: RJ 1.1 IO&BA  PART ONE

We walk into this depressing class, getting into our new assign seats. I walk over to mine not knowing I would be chosen to do the blog. Why me? I'm an innocent little kid. We take a minute and write the agenda down right after the minute we read Janeth's blog and fix some grammar mistakes. After Ms. Nakada passes out the spring syllabus, and talks about how this is our last semester of eighth grade, we look over the syllabus talking about what we will be doing. A few minutes after, we talk about what Shakespearean story we will be doing and reading for Drama and English. It says Midsummer Night's Dream, and the class corrects how we will be doing a musical again. Then, the students in Drama corrects everyone else that we will be doing both musical and Shakespearean play. We read it a bit more and some student said how we have cursive in the syllabus, which is our signature. 

Soon after, we take out our English notebooks, we write our first QQSL of the year, we do what we usually do going to the table of contents, writing what page it is, and flip the pages to a new fresh one. We out our heading and we read both quotes, "Write on your heart that everyday is the best day in the year." and "Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could." both by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Today feels the opposite because I have to write the blog for this class. We talk about how it can impact our lives and what it does to us, how it's not always the best but maybe it will be tomorrow. We talk about it a little more and then we write our question down on our notebooks, which is, "What are you excited about in 2024." Most of the classes responses were about how excited and anxious they were about high school and if they got into the one they wanted. They also talk about the Dodgers season, which I'm so excited about since Shohei Ohtani, and someone else I do not recall, finally being on the Dodgers team, the amount of money he's getting is ridiculous. Anyways, the class laughs at something I was not really paying attention to, but I heard how Lucas might be driving soon.  

While they laugh Ms. Nakada turns to the reading journal and ask how many books we have done. I heard someone say thirteen, wow. We turn to the new page for our reading journals so we can start reading Inside Out and Back Again. We write it down and go back to what we used to do, we review part one of the book so we can refresh and remember once again. Ms. Nakada says that we have to write a three word summary of part one and draw a visual summary. The class goes silent, pages flipping back and forth, the clock is ticking, the footsteps coming from Ms. Nakada walking around watching us so we don't escape this prison. Seconds turn into minutes without us realizing, then with that loud noise, my head converts it to word, it was Ms. Nakada, she tells us to put effort into this. Then, after the long hours pass, the alarm. All the prisoners run out of the prison. Someone bails us all out, thank you.