Edgar's blog '_'

Southern propaganda.

History
BLOG
Ch.3: The English Colonies
HW: Review notes
R.J. 3.1-3.5
due tommorrow
Ch. 3&5 T.O.

We came in then we started to write our agenda down while Caley read her blog. After she read it, we opened our history note books for page 8 ch.3: The English Colonies. Then we started to copy another of  Ms. Nakada's lovely maps again. The English Colonies on the map are Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Georgia. Then we discussed about what kind colony we lived in and we were THE ENGLISH COLONY. Then we had to do a propaganda one of three colonies. Then class was over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!s

Cayley's Blog

English
Blog poetry
readers writing:The Outsiders
writers workshop perfect paragraph
personal narrative
HW RJ 3.3 Ch5
First Kevin read the blog then everyone wrote in their binder reminders the HW.
After that everyone took out their English notebooks and their books too.
Ms. Nakada started discussing about Ch3 and Ch4 in the Outsiders.
Then she read a little bit of Ch4 and she told everyone else to read on by themselves or to finish their perfect paragraph. While everyone was working there were a couple of people talking and she asked them to be quiet. Ms. Nakada got tired of Christopher talking and moved him in front. Ms Nakada told us to pack up and get ready to leave. Then we got dismissed!

kevins blog

Agenda
blog poetry
writing a personal narrative
writers workshop

The bell rings and every one is sitting  down quietly. Every one starts to write down the agenda.
Then Ms. Nakada told every one to take out there poetry papers. Afterwords Ms. Nakada to told every one to take out a sheet of paper and tittle it writing a personal narrative. Every one had to write down 3 people who have influenced, after working on that for a wile the bell rang, then every one took a mall brake, a few minits later it was time for history. Ms. Nakada was going over how the europeans had there effects on the native americans. Then it was time for the test. Every one got quiet and began working on the test.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

wendy's blog

English,poetry
my scores
book projects
writers workshop
HW:r.j 3.1
History
My scores
quiz #1
ch.2:European Exploration
HW:study for
quiz #2
  
Today I got chosen to do the blog. We all had to go outside cause the fire alarm rang. Ms. Nakada explained how to check our reading journals  scores. Ms Nakada gave us a sheet explaining our Eighth Grade English book project 2010-2012. After that we moved on to Writers Workshop. We all started working on our paragraphs. Ms Nakada started calling people for make-up work. Then it was time to take a break so the class went to get water.  

During history the fire alarm  rang again but it  stopped so we all went back to class. The  first thing we did was check our scores and some students passed out our work that we have been doing. After Ms Nakada told us to take out a sheet of paper and to write quiz make-ups#1. After that we continued our notes on European Exploration.

Alfredo's Blog :)

English
BLOG
The Outsiders Summaries
Writer's Workshop
Reading Journal
HW Make Up Work

In class, Ms Nakada passed out popsicles and popcorn to the whole class for getting 10 points for the class and we were lucky because how hot it is today. The class then discusses a summary of the second chapter of The Outsiders. Then, the class starts working on the Perfect Paragraph Draft and Ms. Nakada turns on the fans. :)  After that, the bell rang and the class took a break.


History
Ch.1 Native Americans
Ch.2 European Exploration
HW Review Notes

The bell rang and it was time for History. We still had to continue writing our paragraphs because Ms. Nakada was still correcting Reading Journals. Ms. Nakada then said that Hector was Christopher Columbus and she showed how Hector was supposed to act and some people laughed. We started to learn about the Explorations of America. We learned a lot about England, North America, and other places. Then we packed up and she told us to pack in a British accent. Class was Over!!!!!

Elizabeth's Blog

History
Blog
Ch. 1 Native Americans
group work
Cornell Notes
Ch. 2 European Exploration
HW review notes
R.J. 2.1-2.5 DUE TOMORROW!


Today in class Ms. Nakada told us to take out our history notebooks and to turn to page 5 and to put Ch.1 Native Americans as our heading. She drew a map and told us to draw it too. Then she told us to color it. After that Ms. Nakada told us to turn to page 3 in the history book and showed us how Native Americans used to make clothes and houses. Ms.Nakada told us to turn our tables to each other and assigned a name of a culture. She also told us to work together and make a circle map and to write about the culture. After that Ms. Nakada told    
group 1 was NW Coast and had to share out their circle map first then group 2 (California), group 3 (Great Basin), group 4 (Plateau), group 5 (Southwest), group 6 (Great Plains), group 7 (Eastern Woodlands), and group 8 (Southeast). Lastly, Ms. Nakada told us to write what she writes on the question column and to pack up when we were done. CLASS WAS OVER!  

English Block Blog

ENGLISH
Blog
The Outsiders ch.1
Step up to writing writer's workshop
 HW-R.J. 2.3 (T.O. ch.2)p.19-36.

Today in English we read The Outsiders for a few minutes and summarized what we read until chapter 1. We described each character we read about. Then we did the Step Up to Writing process and wrote about a subject that we picked along with three reasons to write about it. I chose to write about school and my three reasons were HW, class and nutrition, lunch and X-period. Then we wrote our thesis statements and it was time to go.

griselda's blog

English
blog
The Outsiders
character webs
hw: R.J. 2.2

We read "The Eagle" and then today in class Ms. Nakada gave us a book of The Outsiders to read. Then some UCLA volunteers came to talk to us about college. Their names were  Kim and Raymond. They talked to us about UCLA classes and the sports they have there. They also talked to us about the social life. Then Ms.Nakada told us about when she went to college at Oregon.  They left and we drew a circle map and then the bell rang so we took a break.

History
Quiz #1
Native Americans/Colonization
hw:Review Notes

Today in history Ms. Nakada told us to take our notes out from yesterday and to study them because we were going to take a quiz. Then Ms. Nakada made us move the tables so we could start the quiz. Then when everyone finished the quiz we had to move the tables back to how they were. Then it was time to go home.

Daniel's blog 0___O

Agenda : Blog poem "The Eagle"
reading visual visualization
The Outsiders
topics,genres,& audience
homework: reading journal 2.1.

Blogger:  Daniel

When class started we all walked in started copying our agenda... well, most of us.Then Emily started to read her blog. When she was done with her blog she had to pick a boy to write the blog and she chose ME!! Ms. Nakada started to read a poem by a woman named Emily Dickinson. When Ms. Nakada asked the class to read the poem together we did not do so well the first few tries then we got it! After that Ms. Nakada asked the class "if your life had a  sound track what would it be playing?" A few minutes later she started to play a few songs and she asked us what we would picture in our heads when we heard the songs. Ms. Nakada started to read a book called the The Outsiders. She asked us what we pictured when she was reading the book . Then the bell rang and she let us out for a break. YAY!

History
Agenda: timelines intro to cornell notes
homework:study for quiz #1.

The class started by Ms. Nakada asking the class to take out our timeline. She gave us 5 minutes to make it look pretty. Next Ms. Nakada introduced us to Cornell notes. We had to name 7 continents in the world with one country. Then we had to name 6 regions in the United States.

Emily's ^_^ Blog:]

English:
blog
collect
HW:] et forms
reading journals
HW:]catch up on reading!!
History:
timelines continued
HW:] review notes

Today in English Ms. Nakada was explaining about how we could catch up on our reading and keep up on our grades to not FAIL!! Like knowing what you are reading about, makes you a good reader. She gave us sometime to read. After, she checked if we had books (catch the fakers!!). She checked our homework while we read quietly!! We started using our English notebook. She told us what our class score is. Then the bell rang :( , but we have 6th period again so yay!

6th period started & we turned back and saw a big timeline that we will learn this school year. We reviewed our 6th grade history and the way Ms. Nakada showed us the how early men walked & talked :), she explained how they started to talk and made us laugh. Then, we reviewed 7th grade history and then we put important dates in our life's 1-10. Ms. Nakada passed out papers to make timelines, we cut them in half (hot-dog style). The ten things we wrote down were put on the timeline. Class ended!!

Jeffrey's blog :( emily ur next ): !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Emily's map of the world.

HISTORY

BLOG

HISTORY NOTEBOOKS

INTRO TO GEOGRAPHY

WORLD MAP

TIME LINES 

HW REVIEW NOTES

RJ 1.1-1.3 DUE TOMORROW

ET FORM

Blogger:  Jeffrey

First, the whole class wrote down the agenda. Then, Ms. Nakada  showed us what we were going to do. She told two students to pass out the history books. Then we started doing our history notebook. We have to find the place where the maps are in the history book. We all turned to page a1. Then she explained us all the things on the legend.  Then she told us the difference between the map on page a5 and the big map she has on the wall. On our notes we had to write 5 countries. Ms. Nakada drew South and North America. Then she drew Greenland and Iceland. Then we had to do the same and finish drawing the whole map. After, that we had to name and color the continents. Then we had to name all the oceans. Then we turned the page in our notebook/3 ring binders and named it US Maps and turn the page from the book to a18.  We had to draw the US map and label all the regions and all the oceans and color them in. Then she told us that we needed to know the city, state, region, country, and continent we live in. 

Esperanza's Blog

Agenda
English
Blog
Intro to reader's
workshop
Reading journals
Intro to writers workshop
Hw reading journal 1.2-1.3 20pgs each

Blogger:  Esperanza

     Today is the 3rd day of school and it's been good. Today Christopher read his blog. Ms. Nakada told him to choose the next blogger and he chose me. Ms. Nakada told us about points. 3/4 per got seven by donating and she explained if we get to 10 points we might have pizza, ice cream and more. Ms. Nakada told the class to take out their reading journals but first she passed out a paper. A reading journal is a note book to keep track of your reading and you have to read 20 pgs or more. Then Ms. Nakada explained about a book she read called The Book Thief. At exactly at 1:18 pm she gave us a point. Now we have 3 points. Then she started talking about 5 people going to the back to go use the computers. We have to go to the Emerson website. Now she told every body to put your reading journals away.
     Now we have to take out a piece of paper and our heading in the right corner of your paper. Ms. Nakada explained what to do with the piece of paper. Ms. Nakada gave us a break inside the class room for a minute. She talked about the writing process and how Christopher's blog had 40 people look at it. Ms. Levin was one of them. Then Ms. Nakada made us write topics, genres and audiences on a piece of paper. Then she told us to pack up. She told us to put the chairs up and class was over after that.

2nd day of school

Check out the artifacts from per 5/6 students.

ENGLISH
blog
collect hw
indepedent reading
hw read 20 pages

HISTORY
who are we
observing artifacts hw supplies

BLOGGER CHRISTOPHER

Today in class we all wrote down the agenda. After that we listened to Ms. Nakada talk about the blog. We went over a piece of paper called Ms. Nakada's argument for independent reading telling us about reading. It told us about the reading log and stuff like that.

We took a break and came back and started with history. Then we went over a paper called Independent reading rubric. She told us about a book The Hunger Games. She told us to take out our homework.  The assignment was to bring an artifact. We wrote stuff about what we think about the artifacts of other kids. Then we packed up and got ready to leave.

The First Day of School

Agenda
English
Welcome
Course Outlines
Supplies
HW:  Course outline signed, and supplies!

History
Welcome
Who are we?
BLOG
HW:  Personal artifact

logger:  Ms. Nakada

Welcome to the first blog for Ms. Nakada's fifth period English and sixth period US History classes.

After lunch, everyone headed up to room 229 and entered the class for our first day.  I took some time to sign program cards and say so many familiar faces.  I taught a bunch of these students for the first five weeks of sixth grade and they sure have grown up since then.  I called role and, maybe because they were tired from lunch and a long day, but some of my students were less than enthusiastic about being here.

After roll I asked students, "What is your story?"  We talked a little about what stories we've heard and what we might have to say to the world.  We went over the course outlines for English and history, the grading  homework and all of that.  Edgar wasn't sure what in the world I was talking about, and my guess is that lots of students didn't know either, but I'm not worried.  We'll all get there.

After a break between fifth and sixth periods, everyone got their English textbooks (oh, and everyone was on time.  Well done, class).  A nice, tall student fixed the blinds (thanks) and then students took a look at some artifacts in order to learn a little something about their new teacher.  They were pretty observant correctly identifying my age (nice job Chris), how long I've been married, and how short I've been my entire life.

We named our blog (this one you are reading right now) and that was it for the day!  And tomorrow, I look forward to hearing my students' stories!