Erick's Blog

Blog
"Nothing gold can stay"
Socrtic Seminar intro.
H.W. RJ 5.1

I thought I would never have to do the blog -__- (thank you Natalie).  Well, we started on our poetry in Cornell notes. We learned about rhyme schemes: a pattern of words that rhyme. Two lines that rhyme are called  couplet: AA>BB>CC ect. I'm lost we went from talk about leaves to talking about tragedies o_O. Oh, great were back to the seasons and leaves. Hmm we have to learn to be deep... I need help from Sergio. Wow, Eli is having trouble pronouncing the word Socratic. Okay well we are starting the Socratic Seminar, but all I hear is Owen talking about a grandpa. Okay, now every one is starting to participate and just saying which characters are gold. I say it's Johnny because even though he was dying he would do it again because the kids had more to live for than him. I like Tishe's point, he said, "To be gold you must be true to yourself." Okay class is over.

Allyn's Blog (p.s. it's RIP ON OWEN DAY)

Agenda       9.13.11
BLOG
RJ 2.1
STEP UP PARAGRAPH 
ALPHA SMARTS
HW. RJ 2.2 TO CH 4
rj 2.3 to chapter 5
TODAY IS RIP ON OWEN DAY 

At the beginning of class Owen read his blog which was very, very long. Then Ms. Nakada said that she feels sorry for herself because she has Owen in her class..... Eli's like, "Ooooh you just got roasted." While it took a while to calm down everyone got out their Outsiders book and reading journal and read supposedly. 


Everyone stared taking about my Mr. Hastings. Karina's like I love you and so did Eli.
Then Eli still didn't get the homework and they had a whole conversation on what the homework was.
Sergio started talking about how sexy he was or at least thought he was.
We started working on the step up to writing thing.
Hastings came in the room with some coffee for Nakada only. Ssshh what about me, his best student that he had last year? I was good too. 
My ears hurt now because of all the screaming when Hastings came in.
We really haven't gotten anything done in this class today.
Everyone started saying whose day it is to rip on. We were suppose to be workin and everyone just yelling out loud. Then Shawn came in. All out of the sudden everyone gets working. OOOOPPPSSS I almost forgot. Today we are learning about the perfect paragraph and also today is a short day. Nobody knows what to write their paragraph on. I'm just typing down what I hear. I know, it's really confusing and random. I'M SORRY:( .Nobody in this class can stay really quiet. Oh, yeah, we do not see Ms. Nakada tomorrow. Well, time to pack up got to go bye. I <3 you.

Eli's Blog

Agenda:

Blog

Summer Assignment due on Monday

Reading Journals

The Outsiders Ch.1 

Summary

HW

The Outsiders Ch.2

So we got into period 2 and immediately started discussing our summer assigment. We learned that all the books are on the ap reading list and are really important to read for college. We the started to go over the format of how the assigment should be formatted. Ms. Nakada then wrote a mock assignment on the book Extremely Loud and Incredbely Close. Ms. Nakada explained to us through her writing how to properly write in the 8-12 sentence format that Mrs. Jacobson asked us to write in. Shawn realized that he was not in Mrs. Jacobsons class last year and then discovered that Ms. Nakada wa doing this for the kids weren't in the class last year. Owen of course critized Ms. Nakada. If you need reference on how to format and write the summary please click this link and download the 7th grade summer assignment.

After going over the summer assigment we went into our reading logs and our reading plan for the semester. Ms Nakada suggested that everyone if you haven't, read the Hunger Games series, along with many other great classics and modern books. You have to read a minium of 6 novels this semester and at least half of them must be A.R.. The books that I am going to read are:

Against all Enemies by Tom Clancy

Dead or Alive by Tom Clancy

Splinter Cell Fallout by Tom Clancy

Splinter Cell Conviction by Tom Clancy

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Ghost Recon Combat Ops By Tom Clancy

Ms. Nakada suggests that you get into the reading zone.

1.1 The Outsiders  P.1-18       

 Ponyboy walks home from the theater when he gets jumped by the Socs. His brothers come to chase the away.

Tonight do 1.2 two sentence summary.

Peace Out.                                                                                                                           

Ms. Nakada's First Blog!

Agenda
Welcome
course outline
supplies
HW: The Outsiders Ch. 1

The bell for second period rang and in strolled my first eighth grade SAS English class. It was a full house but everyone found their seats and as students wrote the agenda, I signed program cards. I passed out the course outlines and took roll. Lots of familiar faces in this class. :)

A couple of students (I think it was Owen) brought up the Oregon game on Saturday and I got a little distracted but we were quickly back on track, reading the course outline about what students can expect in Ms. Nakada's class (lots of reading and writing). I also went over homework (read 20 pages a night, people) and book projects. We talked briefly about NaNoWriMo and students got a little stressed out but I promise, it will be a challenge and a LOT of fun.

We then went over supplies (paper, pens, notebook for class notes, notebook for reading journals). Donate stuff! It will help keep our class nice!

I passed out copies of The Outsiders and reminded students to read the first chapter tonight on during ET. 

We then started our blog and in Darian came up with The Hatcher Blog :). So there we have it! Our first blog of the school year...