Ms. Nakada's Blog

English
Blog
I Am Poems
writer's workshop
HW: RJ 10.2

I can't believe Kevin picked me to do the blog, after all I've done for him. ; - \ So here I am doing the blog. We start class with Kevin reading his blog which had this poem by Emily which I found very entertaining. Daniel demonstrated the breaststroke for us on the floor. Quite interesting. We then started writing I Am poems. We wrote one as a class and then wrote them individually. Simone read hers, then Chris and Payge.  Simone is loud and crazy. Chris is cool and clumsy and Payge is short and funny. We then did writer's workshop and I collected some make-up work. I have to get grades in!  Stressful!!!  The bell rang so we took a break.

History
150th Anniversary of the start of the Civil War
Bull Run
HW: Review Notes

Once everyone got back from the break we took out our notes on Bull Run. Since today is the 150th anniversary of the firing at Fort Sumter, I played an NPR story about how they are remembering these events in South Carolina. Then we reviewed the first 5 characters from Bull Run, got into literature circles and read the next four sections.

Hector's BLOG #3

English
BLOG-POETRY
Sentence Types/Combing
reader's/writers workshop 
HW: Make-Up Work


We came into the class  and Ms. Nakada started to read some poetry. Then we did some notes on "Sentence Types/Combining." Then the bell rang and we took a  break.


History
Ch.13: A Growing Sense of Nationhood
HW: Review Notes for FINAL EXAM!


The Break is over and we took out our History Notebooks and started to write notes on "Ch.13: A Growing Sense of Nationhood." We finished the notes and then we packed up and got ready to GO!

Andrea's blog

English: blog
poetry
narrative v. expository
readers workshop
RJ 11.1-11.5  
hw: none Book project due 12-10

Hi well it's my turn to write the blog. We're reading the poetry thing when Simone got Mr. Morrison's backpack... then Ms. Nakada drew udders and yeah now where writing about a book Three Cups of Tea. Well, yeah bye, the bell rang.

History
Quiz #7

We're "studying" for the test and then we took the test.

Luis's Blog

English
blog poetry
English scores
spa#1
h.w. r.j. 7.1

Today in English we all got in and Robert read his blog. I was the last one so Ms. Nakada chose me. Then we started to do the poetry. when we were done we started to check our grades for each assignment. Then people started to pass out work. After that we started to do test corrections for Quiz#1. We reviewed the test. Mrs. Flowers by Maya Angelou was the first thing inside the booklet. Then the bell rang for our break.

History
Review
Quiz #4
Hw none:D

Today in History we continued to review the booklet. Then we started to review the notes for the Quiz. Then everybody started moving the desks and  Ms. Nakada passed out the test and everyone started it. Then Ms. Nakada collected the tests and the bell rang so it was time to go.

Julia's blog

English

Blog Poetry

Revising your narratives 

writers workshop

HW: RJ 5.1 to ch.10-12

 Ms. Nakada told us to take out our poetry sheet so we could read it out loud like we always do when we come in for English. We read "The Eagle" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, then the poem "Love" by William Jay Smith, "Fog" by Carol Sandburg, the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost. Then we read a new poem from our paper "The World is Not a Pleasant Place To Be" by Nikki Giovanni, and then Ms. Nakada stared explaining what the poem meant. After Ms. Nakada told us to take out our English journals and put revising your personal narrative in our table of contents then to write it on to of the paper for page 9. Ms. Nakada asked the class to re-read what you have and to look for: 

1. Is the scene/setting clearly described?

2. Are the characters easy to see?

3. Did you use dialogue?

4. Did you use a simile : like or as:

5. Did you use a metaphor   

Then we went to break.

History

Ch.5: Toward independence 

Colony project 

British tyranny

HW:Review notes

 Ms. Nakada told the class that we where going to do a colony project in groups. Each group got to choose what colony group they want to talk about. After they choose which one they wanted to talk about, they stared doing there poster. Then Ms. Nakada and the British started going around the class and started asking the Colony if they wanted to change something for money. After  The colonists got mad and  Ms. Nakada told the class to take Cornell Notes on chapter 5: Toward Independence. Then Ms. Nakada told the class to open there history books and look at page 64 and 65. Ms. Nakada told the class to read the first sentence of each paragraph on page 65. last Ms. Nakada told the class that when there done they could get ready to pack up. Then the bell rang and 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.