Keven's First Blog

 

Agenda

Monday 

Take a minute Blog- Corrections 

Reader's workshop/Rj Week 8 GQQS

 Hw: RJ 8.1 Read for T.O. Ch. 6

When we got to class, it smelled horrible so we walked to the outdoor cafeteria. When we got to the cafeteria, we sat down and took out our binder reminder and wrote down the agenda. Next, Josh read his blog but it was pretty hard to hear because there were crows. Then, we whipped out our English notebooks and wrote down something new in the table of contentsand wrote for our week eight page and looked at some of Frida Kahlo paintings. Then, we went to our outsiders note and wrote about chapter four and chapter five. Then, we got to pack up and get ready to leave.

Josh's First Blog

 

Agenda

Take a min

blog corrections

reader's workshop/RJ 

Week 7 Quick write 

Essay Introductions

HW Catch up on reading if needed

We walk in class and, everybody finds there seats. First we start off with the take a min video then, we go over Chris's blog. After the  class start's to write down the agenda. Afterwards , Ms. Nakada walks around and checks reading journals.

Next, Ms. Nakada goes over example's of other quick writes and then, we start ours. A couple minutes later Ms. Nakada passes out honor role papers. 20 minuets later we finish our quick writes Ms. Nakada tells us we can pack up. After, the bell rings and, Ms, Nakada tells us have a great day and lets us go.

Chris' First Blog

 Agenda

Take a minute 

blog corrections

reader's workshop

week 7: song

Essay Intros

HW RJ 7.4 T.O. Ch.5

We started our day by writing down the agenda, and listen to Dustin's blog. After, we went into reader's workshop. When we finished, we got out our notebooks. We wrote notes on "Essay Basics." After that, we talked about Banned Books Week. We had to choose one of three prompts: personal essay, argumentative, and informational. We wrote a draft on one of the three prompts. Then, we packed up, and got dismissed table by table.

Dustin's First Blog

  Agenda

Take a minute
Blog Corrections
Readers Workshop
Week 7: G Q Q S
Banned Books Week

HW: RJ 7.3 T.O CH 4

We started off by writing down the agenda and taking a minute. Then, we listened to and corrected Olivia's blog.  After, we reread chapter three of The Outsiders and wrote some notes about it. Next, we worked on week seven grammar, quote, question, and song. We learned and took notes about the song "Freedom". Lastly, we packed up and got ready to go home.

Olivia's First Blog

 Agenda

Take a minute

Blog corrections

Reader's workshop

Week 7 : G Q Q S

Banned Books Week

HW: RJ 7.2 T.O Ch. 3

We started our day off by writing down the agenda and listening to our daily take a minute. Aanjali read out her blog and chose me to write next. We opened up our Reading Journals and discussed chapter two of the book we've been reading, The Outsiders. We assessed our new characters, Cherry and Marcia, and talked about their differences. In this chapter we learned about how Johnny was jumped by the Socs. and how it affected him. "Things are rough all over" is an important quote that Cherry said on page 35 which Ms. Nakada asked if we agree with. After we were done talking about The Outsiders, we began working on our quote, question, and song, of the week. Our weekly quote was by Stephen Chbosky, the author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. "Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight." was his quote. After reading the quote, we all wrote our opinion on what the author is trying to say. Next, We looked at a sheet about banned books. Our question of the week was if we read banned books. Since all of us are reading The Outsiders, we all read banned books. As the clock ticked closer to 1:55, We wrapped our day up and packed to leave. We waited for the bell to ring and once Ms. Nakada dismissed us, we all left.

Aanjali's First Blog

Agenda:

Take a minute

blog / corrections

reader's workshop / RJ / BR

Week 7: G Q Q S

Banned Books Week

HW:  RJ 7.1 T.O.  Ch. 2

To begin class, we sat down and wrote the daily agenda and homework in our binder reminders. Then, Kat read her blog to the class, and we corrected it. Afterwards, Ms. Nakada told us to grade our agendas, and we read our grade to her. Once she was done, we took out our English notebooks and our copies of The Outsiders. Then, we continued writing about the characters from The Outsiders in our notebooks. We learned about the conflicts of the first chapter, and some characters. When we were done, we took out our reading journals, and Ms. Nakada went around to grade them. Then, we moved on to our grammar, quote, question, and song of the week. We talked about sentence studies and Banned Books Week. Lastly, we put up our chairs and waited to be dismissed. 

Katarina's First Blog

 September 19th, 2024

Agenda:

take a minute - BLOG - corrections

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Essay Basics

HW RJ 6.4 Read The Outsiders p. 1-18 and summarize

To begin class, we sat down, watched our daily meditation video, and wrote down the agenda in our binder reminders. Then, we each got a copy of The Outsiders and read pages one through six together. After that, we began analyzing what we read on page ten in our English notebooks. We discussed the characters: Darry, Sodapop, and Ponyboy. We then discussed the Socs versus greasers gang conflict. We continued reading through chapter one with only our table partners this time. Once we were done reading, we summarized the pages in our reading journals. Finally, we packed up, put up our chairs, and got dismissed by Ms. Nakada.

Evelyn's First Blog

September 18, 2024

Agenda:

Take a minute, blog, corrections

Reader's workshop/week 6 lines

Book Project Gallery Walk

Essay Basics

Homework: RJ 6.3 Read for 20 - 30 minutes, or iReady

We started off the day with Scarlett reading her first blog. After that, we did our gallery walk for the book projects. Then, we talked about essay basics, and what makes an essay an essay. Finally, the day was over and everyone packed up.

Scarlett's First Blog

 September 17, 2024

Agenda - 

Take a minute  

Blog Corrections 

Readers Workshop

Week 6: Lines 

Book Projects Due Tomorrow

Homework: 

RJ 6.2 Read for 20-30 minutes or iReady

    Today, everyone settled into class and began writing the daily agenda. As everyone wrote down the agenda, Ms. Nakada played the take a minute video. Once everyone was finished, Chloe read her blog from the previous day and Ms. Nakada made corrections. We then started the readers/writers workshop. After, we started our lines for sentence study. Today's line was "The Contract Says: We'd Like the Conversation to be Bilingual" by Ada Limon. We broke down the meaning of Ada's poem and the story behind it. Class started to end so we put the poem away to discuss tomorrow. Everyone packed up and put their chairs on their desks and waited to be dismissed. 

Chloe's First Blog

 Agenda

Take a minute- Blog- Corrections

Reader's/ Writer's workshop 

Week 6: G-Q-Q-L

Essay Basics

Homework

RJ 6.1 Read for 20-30 minutes or iReady

Book Projects due Wednesday

Today started off by Ms. Nakada giving us our new seating chart/ tables we are going to be at. Once we all sat down in our new seats we did take a minute and wrote down our Agenda for the day. After everyone was done, we listened to Jade's Blog and made corrections. Afterwards, everyone wrote down week 6 reading logs in their English Notebook and started reading or doing iReady for --- minutes. After everyone was done reading a few pages of their books or doing iReady, Ms. Nakada said to get out our English Notebooks again and write down Week 6 Grammar, Quote, Question, and Lines. We learned more about compound words, subjects, and predicates. Afterwards, we watched a video of Elmo telling us our Quote for today, once everyone was finished with the question and quote, we all got packed up and Ms. Nakada dismissed us by table.

Jade's First Blog

AGENDA

take a minute/blog/corrections 

readers/writers workshop

RJ-  5 week grades 

WEEK 5 quiz

HW- Book Projects due Wednesday

    We started off the day by coming in sitting down and writing down our agendas. Ms. Nakada then told the class that we had gained another point because the whole class was here. After, Ms. Nakada called Kaela up to read her blog from yesterday. Once, Kaela was done reading her blog she chose me to go up next. Then, Ms. Nakada and the class started to correct Kaela's blog. After, Ms. Nakada told us to start reading or do our book projects while she went around the class grading our reading journals from the night before. After, Ms. Nakada stopped us after a while and asked us if we had any questions about our book projects. Once, she answered a couple questions she then told us to take out our chromebooks and start our week five quizzes, and she also gave us a reminder on how to spell Frederick Douglass. She told us that most of us did well, but to pay attention to class and come to it not just in body but in mind as well. Then, she told us to pack up and to start our weekend seven minute early (not really).

Kaela's First Blog

 AGENDA

take a minute-blog-corrections

reader's workshop

S.T.  A.C.E.

Book Projects

HW: RJ 5.4 Read for 20-30 minutes, or iReady lessons

Today in class, we all sat down, wrote the agenda in our binder reminders, and took a minute to breathe. After that, we all listened to Scarlett's blog and didn't make any corrections since she didn't make any mistakes. Then, we all took out our reading journals, and everyone started writing their reading progress in their journals. After, everyone was reading, and Ms. Nakada was checking some students binder reminders and their reading journals. After that, everyone was done reading and updating their reading journals, Ms. Nakada gave everyone their A.C.E papers to finish and a book project's paper with all the details about it. We all read the Book Projects paper and stapled it to our reading journal. Finally, it was the end of the day, and everyone started packing up to go home. Ms. Nakada dismissed us, and everyone left to go home.

Scarlett's First Blog

 

September 11,2024 

AGENDA

Take a minute - BLOG- corrections 

Reader's Workshop 

SCHOOL TRIP  A.C.E.

Book Projects 

HW-RJ 5.3 Read for 20-30 minutes or iReady lessons. 

We started the class by writing down the agenda in our binder reminders and taking a minute. Then, we listened to Will's blog for yesterday and made corrections. After, we started reader's workshop as Ms. Nakada went around checking our reading journals. After reader's workshop, we started where we left off on our School Trip A.C.E presentations. Janelle presented her poster, telling us about why their group thinks race can affect travel experience. Next, Vianney told us about why Drew appreciates feeling invisible while in Paris. After a few more presentations, we started our personal School Trip A.C.E. paragraphs. After a few minutes, we started to pack up our things before the bell rang. Finally, we all put our chairs up as the bell rand and Ms. Nakada dismissed us. 

Will's First Blog Post

 Agenda

Take a minute - Blog- Corrections

Book Fair

Week 5: Song

School Trip ACE

Today, we started class by listening to the guided meditation and wrote down the agenda and the homework. The smell of pizza was intoxicating. Next, we walked on down to the Book Fair and some people bought books and posters. Then, we came back up and listened to "Redemption Song" by Bob Marley. Afterwards, we discussed the meanings in the song and wrote our favorite line of the song. Following this, people began to finish the School Trip A.C.E. Then, people began to present their A.C.E.'s. Almost all of them looked well made. Soon the bell rang, and we were dismissed table by table.

-Will Read

Richard's First Blog

 Agenda

Take a min. - blog corrections

Reader's Workshop

Week 5: Grammar, Quote, Question 

School Trip: A.C.E.

HW: RJ 5.1 Read for 20-30 min. or I-ready lessons.

Firstly, we entered the classroom and took our seats before writing our agenda. After, we did take a min. and wrote the readers journal entry for today. Once we were done, we started reading. Then, we wrote a new page into the table of contents before filling out the page. The page we were doing was grammar, quote, question, song for week five. However, was no song today due to a lack of time. Our grammar for today was identifying the subject and predicate of a sentence. We then wrote our quote after we finished with our grammar.. This week it was "Once you learn to read, you will forever be free" by Frederick Douglass. Also, we had to write what we thought it meant. We then shared what we had written. A short while after, we answered the question "What is your history as a reader." Lastly, we worked on the School Trip A.C.E posters until class ended.

Andrew's First Blog

 

Agenda.

Take a minute/blog/corrections

Reader's Workshop/RJ/BR check

A.C.E. for School Trip

Quick Write #1

HW: Stay Cool this weekend!

To begin the period, we wrote down the agenda in our binder reminders, and listened to our daily sun breaths. Afterwards, Angel, Josh, and I went down to get the pizzas for those who ordered one. Then, Isaac shared his blog and picked me to go next. Once that was complete, Ms. Nakada came around and checked our binder reminders for the past two weeks. After that, we started working on our A.C.E. School Trip posters. Next, we started on our first quick write of the year. The question was, "What is one thing you have learned so far this year?" After hearing the question, we all got to work writing our quick write of about 200 words. Finally, we finished a few minutes early and started to get packed up for the day. Once the bell rung, all the kids that ordered pizza grabbed their pizza and left the classroom for the weekend. That is what happened on Friday, September 6th, at 6th period.

Isaac's First Blog

 

Agenda  

take a min 

/blog/corrections

readers workshop

A.C.E.

School Trip  A.C.E.

HW RJ 4.3 Read for 20-30 min 

Quick write tomorrow! 

First we took a minute. Then, James shared his first blog. Afterwards, Ms. Nakada and the rest of the class corrected it. Then, Ms. Nakada asked us what book we were reading and what page we were at. Next, we read our independent books for 10 minutes. Then, we added to our table of contents. Also, we went over the meaning of each letter of A.C.E.  A, meaning Answer the question, C, meaning cite text evidence, and E, meaning explains how the evidence supports your answer. 

Then, we started our A.C.E. . We went over the School Trip question: "What line do you relate to most?" and Ms. Nakada told each table group what chapter they are doing. Then, each group worked on that till the end of the period. 

The end  

James's First Blog

 Agenda

Take a min. 

/ blog 

/  Corrections

Independent Reading Plans

iReady - Readers Workshop

HW: RJ 4.2 Read for 20 - 30 min & summarize

We started off by taking a minute and our agenda. After that, we listened to Janelle's blog about yesterday and about how period four got pizza because they got 10 points. We also got a point because Janelle had no mistakes which got us up to 10 points. Then, Ms. Nakada talked about how much money pizza is since we have 10 points now.

After the blog, we had to get on iReady for 10 minutes, but if you were done you got to work on your reading journal to write a summary.

Once the 10 minutes passed we had to work on an independent reading plan which we talked about about our goals for the end of the semester. On the same page we worked on, "BOOKS READ" where we talked about the books that we read, number of pages, when we started, and if we did a quiz on it or not. Later, after talking about it we did a small quiz about a school trip. Then, we talked about the books that we are planning to read and re-read. Once we wrote down the books we are going to read, Ms. Nakada passed out cards for Reading recommendations to put on a poster. 

After finishing everything, we got packed up and ready for the bell to ring.

Janelle's First Blog

 Tuesday, September 9, 2024 

Agenda :

- Take a minute/ blog/ corrections

- Independent reading plan

- I-ready -Readers Workshop

HW:

RJ (Reading Journal) 4.1;

Read for 20-30 minutes & summarize.

We've arrived to period 6 (The last period of the day, score !). We take our seats, and write in our agenda. Once we've finished writing the agenda, Graham reads his blog for the class. When Graham finishes reading his blog, there are a few mistakes and errors so we correct it.(Even though it was Hannah who corrected most of it. )

Ms. Nakada gets up to answer a knock at the door. She opens it, and its pizza ! (For her period 4.)

Once our disappointment is over due to the pizza not being ours. Ms. Nakada tells us to get our reading journals out and flip it to the back. She explains how we're going to layout our homework, and NOT write so much in the summary. We can read any book(Shes reading New Kid again) ,and write a three word summary on whichever book we read for 20-30 minutes.

After she was done explaining, we had to grab a book or do i-Ready (If you didn't finish the English diagnostic.)

At the end of the day, we start packing up, putting up our chairs, and standing by our desk. Waiting for the bell to ring. When it rings we say bye and leave.