Daniella's Fifth Horrendous Blog

 

Agenda:

Take a minute 

Blog Corrections

Week 18 QQSL

Poetry Slam Prep

Poetry Slam

Homework:

Prep for Poetry Slam

iReady-40-45 minutes. (2 lessons)

-last week!

Today we walked into our 3rd period class and sat down in our seats as per usual. Then, we took out our binders and started writing our agenda for the day. During that, we took a "minute" about RAIN, short for; Recognize, Allow, Investigate and Nurture. It wasn't really a minute though since it was three minutes. Anyhow, Tali then came up and read her blog to the class. After she was done, she didn't know who to pick to do the next blog, at that moment I thought I was safe 'til Otem gave me silly looks and said I didn't get to do the blog yet. I ignored it, but unfortunately Tali then chose me. I was a bit agitated, but I sucked it up and went to the separate table and started working on my blog. We then transitioned to our Week 18 song. The song of the week was "Forever Young" by Alphaville. My personal favorite line was, "It's so hard to get old without a cause." After that, we then moved on to our poetry slam, one group got to present their poem. Although I forgot what their poem was. (Oops) After they were done with presenting their poem, the bell rang, and we went to our fourth period.

(This blog is terribly short)

Declan: Erm

Milan: What the sigma

Alex: I'm the alpha

(I did not write this, some "anonymous" person asked if they could put this in lol)

Tali's Fifth Blog

Agenda

Take a minute

Blog corrections

Week 18: QQSL

Poetry Gallery Walk

Poetry Slam Prep

Homework

Prep for Poetry Slam

iReady - 40-45 minutes (2 lessons)

- last week!

Today was like any other normal day. We came into class normally from a normal nutrition. I will not stand against any of these false allegations. In our take a minute we got to finally see Dora and we learned the RAIN process. When you have negative emotions, you should Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture them. 

Noa read her very good blog and then picked me. I was okay with that because I wanted a chance to stand against these FALSE allegations. Also, Jessica, Emily, and Riley were all not here today, and Noa and Violette were boring me.

"UM, HELLO? I WAS BORING YOU?!" - Violette

We moved straight into the quote of the week, "Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust." By Jesse Owens. We talked about how he made a very big statement by proving Hitler wrong at the Olympics. Charles shared that he thinks the quote meant that friends are more important than getting awards and don't get old. Alejandro agreed. Ms. Nakada then reminded us that the Eighth Grade Awards Ceremony is next week. She encouraged us to still be proud even if we don't get recognized. NO, ALEJANDRO, I DID NOT FALL DOWN THE STAIRS AGAIN!

We then moved on to the question of the week, What awards/accomplishments can you include on college/scholarship applications?  We talked about UCLA and the University of Oregon. We concluded that important factors include your GPA and class ranking, what AP courses you take, extra curriculars, and seals of bi-literacy. I am falling so far behind because people are talking way too fast and switching topics and it is very confusing I don't know what to write anymore! *crying emoji*.  Anyways we were also talking about volunteering, community service, internship, work experience, novelists, and seemingly most importantly, leadership and commitment. I and co-captain of Speech and Debate and I think that I am going to get into a great college! Also apparently we are supposed to create a 'Brag Sheet' google doc to use to apply for colleges. Noa was the stage manager in the drama show last year and I think she will get into a college. 

We then had to clear our desks so we could do a gallery walk of our poetry collections and broadsides. I heard Charles going around begging for a marker like he keeps needing to borrow my pencils. 

"I HATe YOU." 

That was Charles, and, yes, Ms. Nakada, he did shrug me off when I asked him if you really wanted to see that. 

I felt very left out from everything in my little corner on the side as everyone was re-reading their poetry collections. I finally got to catch up on writing the blog because it was taking forever. Okay, now I am bored again. I started listening into what Noa was saying. She was very not happy because of something Charles or Alejandro said. I could not tell. I got up to look at poetry collections. 

Ms. Nakada told everyone to sit back down because they were being reckless with the artwork that people worked so hard on. She asked what people thought about others. I think everyone's was very good. I loved your broadside Rin! I was very pleasantly surprised with Marcus, Charles, and Isaac's collections. No offense. Or take offense. Ms. Nakada was very annoyed and disappointed in people's lack of respect for other people's work. 

We were then supposed to start working on our Poetry Slam pieces. Ms. Nakada performed hers, which was about the plum things. Forgot what the poem was called. People kept coming up to me trying to make me feel bad for working alone, but I genuinely don't mind. I don't need others to block my shine. Yes I rhyme. 

The bell rang, and class was over. Good bye. 

Noa's Fifth Blog (I think)

 AGENDA

Take a minute

Blog Corrections

Week 17 quiz

Poetry Gallery Walk

HW: Enjoy your weekend! 

The day started out normal which was nice for a change. We had AT, first period, and math. I got to English on the later side, but still managed to be on time. I turned to take out my poetry collection, but could not find it. Eventually I found it and reminded Jessica that it was her turn to read the blog and choose someone. She started reading, but realized that it was not her blog she was reading. After we got back on track, she finished reading and told Emily to choose someone. Which of course was me. 

I took all my stuff and sat down at the lonely desk. Emily realized that now she has nobody to sit next to so HA. Ms. Nakada started reading her oratory from 2020. It was about how the classes endured constant change with zoom and online school. Ms. Nakada got interrupted by the loud speaker aggressively calling Zurie to the main office. Ms. Nakada started up again and finished her oratory. Everyone enjoyed it, and Ms. Nakada asked if Eli was okay. 

After the speech was finished, we transitioned into taking our quiz. Omar and Riley came up to borrow a Chromebook and I tried to juggle having two Chromebooks out at the same time. Ms. Nakada warned us that there are no more makeups on quizzes and to try our best. After most people finished the quiz Ms. Nakada said we can work on our poetry things and she will print out the ones sent last minute... Charles. 

It was silent wall everyone was working on the poetry, until the boys got called out for talking. Ms. Nakada asked Akira to go down to the printing room and get all the poems that were just printed. My broadside was coming undone so I glued it on the paper some more. Ms. Nakada complemented Declan's style that he used on Canva for it's easy printing. It took me three hours to figure out how to get my order right on Canva. It was horrible. Violette came up to my desk, but all she needed was a tissue and then she left. Ethan needed to throw away trash and said hi to me and Ms. Nakada asked Emily to collect all of the field trip slips for our field day to UCLA. I am excited for that and I convinced Alejandro to go into the pool. He hates the ocean and apparently the pool. [He doesn't.]

Tali came up to me and tried to correct my spelling mistakes, I have no idea how to spell oratory. Nothing really is going on cause everyone's working. I started walking around cause I was bored. Violette and Alejandro came up to the lonely desk and are looking over my shoulder and making fun of me. Violette took my poetry collection and hopefully is not ruining it. Emily is making weird faces at me. The class is talking and working. Tali says hi. And I know I am just rambling in this paragraph. Declan literally looks asleep when he comes up to the desk to staple is poetry collection.  Riley came up to the desk and we started talking. She says that she worked on her broadside for a while and then forgot it at home. Alejandro is hitting with the eraser repeatedly.  

Emily and Violette are working on peoples poetry collection cutting and stapling them together. Isaac forgot his poetry things and is gonna turn it in late. Ms. Nakada told us about the poetry slam and started showing us examples. You should all learn from Isaac's mistakes and not assume things. We watched someone perform the poem "The Orange" and their interpretation "Enough." It was really good. 

The bell rang, and Ms. Nakada collected are poetry booklets and broadsides. We packed up and left for fourth period!  

Jessica's Fifth Blog

Agenda

- take a minute

- blog corrections

- original oratories

- NaPoWriMo submissions

HW: iReady 40-45 min. 2 lessons AR 100%

Today I walked in expecting nothing out of the ordinary. The day had felt really long so far because of testing, and it already felt like it was time for the day to be over. The class all sat down relatively quietly. Emily then went up to read the blog. I started feeling a sinking in my stomach as she continued to read aloud. I still held out hope but as suspected she chose me. Apparently, it was because I had punched her yesterday. I don't remember that happening, but anyway I walked up to start my blog and glared at Emily as she laughed. I got singled out by you and I will get you back Emily. 

We went to our English notebooks to fill out page fifty-five with Original Oratories for culmination. We wrote about what needed to be included in it. We also talked about Sofia's one from last year and how good it was. Ms. Nakada then read us one she had written from 2019, and explained she was going to write one this year for us too. 

The class was silent as she read, and the class clapped when it was over. It was really good! It was about standing up for what you believe in and about the teacher strike. She had a quote from To Kill A Mocking Bird which is the book I read for literature circles so I knew the quote and that was cool.

We then went on to talk about culmination for a little while before moving on. Everyone started working on their Broadsides and Poetry Collections as Ms. Nakada showed us hers. 

After, everyone worked on their poems for a while Ms. Nakada told us to start packing up. Then the bell rand and it was off to fifth period (that's weird).

Emily's Fifth Blog

AGENDA: 

take a minute 

blog corrections

Week 17: QQSL

NaPoWriMo Submissions

HW: iReady 40-45 minutes and 2 lessons 

AR 100%

I walked into class, unpacked my bag and hoped that I wouldn't get picked for the blog. Adrian read his blog to this class and then asked whoever didn't do the blog yet to raise their hand. Sadly, Adrian chose me to do it today. I sat down at the separated desk and began to write. We talked about the UCLA field trip and how we are going to get Bay Cities for lunch. I love Bay Cities sandwiches, so I was very happy. 

We don't have a song for this week so we went straight to the lines. We wrote down the lines for the week, "Let's Revive the Golden Rule" TED Talk by Karen Armstrong. Ms. Nakada explained how we were going to write Cornell notes. We listened to the TED Talk and paused to make sure everyone wrote the positive and negative versions of the golden rule. We discussed how everyone always want's to be right and prove their point, but if we can just be more compassionate to each other we will have a purpose and something worth passing down to generations. Ms. Nakada brought in the topic of global warming and how we get to see the blue sky, but in some places it isn't like that and the air is so bad that you can see the air your breathing. We moved on from our notes to questions and then wrote down our summary. The bell rang, and everyone packed up and left. 

"Skibidi Toilet" - Riley

Jessica keeps punching me! 

Adrian's Fifth Blog

 Agenda

- Take a minute

- Blog corrections

- Week 17 Q . Q . S . L

- NaPoWriMo Submissions

The day started off with our class walking in from nutrition. We remembered that we could pick our own seats today so we went to them. After we all sat down in our seats, we took out our agendas to right down the agenda. We finished writing down our agendas, and Alejandro came up to read his blog. He took so long to read his blog, but he eventually finished. Once he finished, he made me and Emily rock paper scissors for the blog. Unfortunately, my amazing skill on rock paper scissors backfired on me. Of course, I won, but that meant I had to write the blog. I was about to get my stuff and come up to the front, but Ronan tried to steal my aura. Although since he is a level one crook, he couldn't get it. I brought up my stuff and began to write my blog. Ms. Nakada then told us to get out our reading journals so we could write down this weeks Quote. The quote was "Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated." We then talked about Rosa Parks and more about what the quote meant. 

Ms. Nakada then called Marcus a sigma because of his running day scores. After Ms. Nakada's brain-rot, we wrote down the question. The question was "What should you NOT learn about at school?" Riley said that we shouldn't learn any math after algebra one and Charles disagreed. It turned into a long talk about how a lot of majors require you to have been tough high level math. We then answered the question and put away our reading journals to do I ready.

"Hey this is Charles, I think Adrian is very nice, but he is really short even with this disability I think he is still able to reach for the sky, even if is really far away because of his height." Charles John Guy Renard

After Charles wrote that, he sniffed me and ran away. 

Alejandro's Fifth Blog (This Time Voluntarily)

 Agenda: 

Take a minute

Blog Corrections

Week 16: QQSL

NaPoWriMo Submissions

HW: i-Ready 40-45 min.

•  2 Lesson

"Be Like water" for testing.

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Today, unlike any other day, is a testing day, which means everyone was relentlessly typing their minds away. If any portions of this blog seem like cut off ideas (After I proofread towards the end of class) Keep in mind we were testing for a good two hours.

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Today, we walked through the wooden frame that leads to this classroom. We write down our agendas, as per normal, then commence with today's events. Today is a testing day, and as we had written for a ridiculous amount of time, everyone was exhausted. (Especially after a VERY, VERY, intriguing lunch)

We all started, expecting to do the blog, but alas, young Eli is not currently here. (I can say this because I'm older than the majority of the class)  We started with the take a minute, another daily happening, and I started messing around with a little 3-D printed item I had. I put away my agenda and lo-and-behold, Charles decided to take a peek at the blog and read. I didn't pay much attention to the blog, a mistake on my part, and I took a look at the end of it. The usual "Happy birthday Isaac." You see, contrary to Eli's blog, I will not wish Isaac happy birthday, and I'll spell his name right. Charles looked at Adrian with a devious grin, he wanted to pick Adrian. I wasn't surprised. to my surprise though, he decided to ask if anyone else hadn't done the blog, he went through his close friends, of course, I, Alejandro, being one of them. I raised my hand to my buddy over there, and he made Adrian and I rock-paper-scissors to see who will do the blog. Being the nice person I am, I told Adrian to use scissors, and I will use rock. (I told him this because the winner does the blog.) We each did our respective hand motions, and I went up to do the blog, knowing very well that I will have to write this blog on top of testing. 

My classmates had various conversations in class while I was typing my brain out trying to come up with an entertaining portion of the blog. (I hope that entertained you) I heard conversations including testing, and that we will no longer have to go through it. Afterwards, we read our poem to the day, "Learning to Love America" by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim. Quite a tongue twisting name eh? Shirley is a Chinese-American poet. The class discussed what this poem is about, somehow going into artichokes and how pretty certain vegetables are. I don't know how they got there, and I certainly don't have a single clue. I am genuinely bamboozled by this conversation. I see my friends from lonesome island over here. I wave to a couple, none wave back. Sad. I know. I'm on lonesome island through, not much I can do over here. They then get back on track with the blog, discussing certain portions of the poem: jet lag, conflict, and America. Jessica shares her ideas. She has a good idea of what the poem is about and I agree with most of it.

Charles, being the silly goose he is, started whispering my name and flexing, showing me something my eye wish it didn't see. It's ok though, we love Charles for who he is: the silliest of geese.

Going back to class, we talk about the amount of trash America produces, and we talk about China. (I haven't been to China, but I want to go there to see some of my family I haven't met) We talk about feeling American and being American, and the difference of being something and knowing you are that said something. Lucas ERUPTS into a fit of sneezes, each one getting progressively louder than the previous, over the laughing I hear Marcus laugh/screaming. 

Whoops! I just realized I forgot to talk about one thing! The last time we had English was two days ago, because of the testing schedule. Hence, we ended up listening to the song of the week: "Born in the USA" by Bruce Springsteen.

We changed gears and went into poem writing. Ms. Nakada asked my fellow classmates if they had finished writing all 30 poems. My best buds Ethan, Marcus, and Charles, were all asked. Two of them had finished. Sadly, John Guy Renard had not finished. Now, I'm sad.

Now, we are currently heading into an area known as "NaPoWriMo Submissions." Charles announced that he wrote another poem! He needs one more. I know you can do it Charles! Ms. Nakada went into a deep explanation of the Submissions. Trying to jot everything down, I started thinking and creating my own version  of it in my mind, we'll see if I make my vision a reality.

Ms. Nakada started talking about making a picture of one of our poems. Tali whispered to me "Twee!" I guess Tali is drawing a little 'Twee.' Ms. Nakada wowed everyone using her booming voice with her artistic drawing for one of her poems.

Right then the bell rang, and everyone packed up. Then, we left.