Emma's (____ <- insert amazing name here) Blog

AGENDA

Blog
Quiz #1
The Outsiders
RJ/BP
HW: Enjoy your weekend! <3 <3 <3

   When class first started, Ms. Nakada took attendance (a few people were absent, not point for us D:) & then chose the next student to start the blog. After the blogger was picked (MEEEE!), Ms. Nakada reviewed everything we'd be answering on the test. Most of it was grammar, although we did review how to make a 'Perfect Paragraph'. Then the tests were handed out & the room went silent *hush* :O

After everyone finished the test, Ms. Nakada played the end of the movie, The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton. It was sad, a few people cried (*cough* ella & isabella *cough*), but most of us stayed strong xD anywhoo, the movie finished & now the class is over :3 yaaaay!

And just for all you nonbelievers...

Wombats are Australian marsupials; they are short-legged, muscular quadrupeds, approximately 1 metre (39 in) in length with a short, stubby tail. They are adaptable in their habitat tolerances, and are found in forested, mountainous, and heathland areas of south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania. (thanks, wikipedia)

BTW, there is an annual Wombat Day >:D 

Jadon's (poorly done) Blog

Agenda

Blog

quiz review

The Outsiders

HW- RJ 4.1-4.4

BOOK PROJECTS DUE FRIDAY 

I was sadly picked to write the blog for today, 9/27/11. We started today by talking about our Vocab. 

(didn't we do that like 3 times already?!? ). Everyone gave examples of similes and idioms and all that. We even talked about Conjunctions ( conjunction junction, whats your function?). Then we started up The Outsiders and watched from the part where Johnny is in the hospital and passed out (that looked so fake) through the rumble where everyone was just rolling over each other (and then some people clapped at the end) and we're on though the part where Ponyboy and Dally go to see Johnny ("Stay gold PonyBoy, stay gold." Now we're at the end in the part where Ponyboy goes back home. THE END.

Sharon's :D blog

English 8
Blog
English scores
Book Projects
The outsiders
HW: RJ 4.1 (20 pages on the book of your choosing)
:) :) :) :) :)

Today it was my turn to do the blog, I knew it was going to be me so I'm glad to get it over with
 We got our idioms back and our summer assingments. Emma just called me I wombat. Our first Book Project is due on friday, We can either do it on The Outsiders or any other book of our choice. I think it's supposed to be an AR book because we loose points if it's a non-AR book. The instructions are on the Course outline paper.

After that we watched The Outsiders which by the way is a really awesome movie!!!
I guess I'm done with my blog now. BYE!!!

The bloggity blogger bloggity bloggy blog by Justin

Justin's Super amazing exciting outstanding excellent BLOG


AGENDA
BLOG
The Outsiders
RJ
HW NONE (YAAAAAAAAY)



Today I accidently have been chosen to do this blog. So, in the beginning people were talking about the Outsiders movie which was pretty exciting. Then we moved on to reviewing the vocabulary (which made the class pretty quiet), they reviewed dialect. Then we watched a catchy video about
CONJUCTION JUNCTION (Tyler was singing).
After that we watched the OUTSIDERS movie
WOOOO YAAAAAA AWESOME
I thought it would be a good movie. It was. It had nice actors.
Not really much happened after that so I guess this is it
HAVE A NICE FRIDAY AND I WILL MAKE A DEVIOUS CHOICE FOR THE NEXT PERSON TO DO THE BLOG
Bye.................

Ella's bomb diggity dog blog which owns Tyler's not amazing blog

Well hello!!! So, I originally wanted to write the blog so I guess I can write it now (if that made sense) so we started the day off with getting our alpha smarts. Camila wanted me to say that she was amazing, Justin passed by and said hello, too......so did Elise. Ms. Nakada gave the people who hadn't finished their Perfect Paragraph some extra time and she assigned some people an alpha smart :) Everyone got up to go to the computer lab so we could print out our paragraph. So we just came back from the computer lab with our amazing and beautiful paragraphs :) Ms. Nakada passed back our paragraph so we could go over them and highlight. It took me a few minutes to notice that we were highlighting.....woops. Ms. Nakada went around to go collect our perfectly highlighted paragraphs. We took out our Outsiders books and reviewed Chapter 9. So, I was called to the counseling office to get my x-period changed so I have no idea what we were doing for the past 5 minutes, when I walked in we were just reading and reviewing. After that sad reading, we took out our vocabulary and added a new word, AND I HAVE ANOTHER BUG BITE!!!! The new words are grammar structures, subordination, and coordination.WRITERS BLOCK. I would write the definitions if I was able to but they're all like overlapped and stuff and I can barley see because I'm blind. We wrote our summary for the vocabulary words...YAY!!! Now everyone is packing up....I guess it's the end of period 6 today!! So peace out. I hope you enjoyed my amazing and beautiful blog!!!! BYEEEE

that's our beautiful class

LLAMA!!!!!

connor's blog

Blog
The Outsiders summaries
vocb. I cont.
HW: RJ 3.2 Ch. 9
Rj 3.3 Ch. 10

Today I was picked to do the blog. Not that happy, but it happens. First thing we did today was open our Outsiders book and started to read. We were reading over chapter 6 but then a loud lawnmower came by and made a lot of noise. We started to read some more and talked about the chapters. It looks like every one in the class loves this book and can not wait to read what happens at the end. After reading we opened our vocab and learned one new word: dialect. Sorry I could not write any more but we've got to go.

Platypus the Dinosaur's (Cambria's) Blog

Today I was chosen to do the blog thanks to someone named Tyler. We started off with checking the Reading Journals for last week. As the awesome Ms. Nakada checked all our RJs, we had to sit and read quietly, although no one was quiet until we got yelled at. It was silent, not one noise other than the crows. It was kind of awkward but I got over it as soon as I started reading. We all finally got to do something other than reading, but we had to take out our notes. We all get our english scores for our recent assignments. So far I got good grades so I'm happy, now all I need to do is maintain them. After everyone found out what scores they got, Ms. Nakada had us take out our vocabulary. We reviewed some words then learned some new ones, although we knew all the words we went over. Then, sadly the period was over and I didn't write that much. Well, there's my failed blog.

Tyler's Epic Blog of all Blog's Blog

Ok so first we started out with changing the backround for our blog since it was very hard to see. It was a tough decision with everyone yelling in Ms. Nakada's ear but it ended up being just clouds with yellow writing.  Then Ms. N went around checking reading summaries. Next, we took out our our Outsiders books and read part of chapter 4 aloud. We stopped in the beggining of the chapter, talked about it, and then skipped to chapter 5. We later transitioned to our Alpha Smarts and finished up our perfect paragraphs. Once I finished my summary, I helped Ms. N with setting up her new speaker system. After everyone was finished we moved on to our notebooks and took notes on "The Elements of Plot". The Elements are: climax, resolution, characters, setting, conflict, and rising action. The last thing we did was go over vocabulary, and we reviewed idiom, anology, and..... that's it, we ended it a little short. Well thanks for reading this even if it's what we have to do on the agenda. BYE!

Tyler

Mica's Blog

English:
Blog
RJ 2.1
Step up paragraph
AlphaSmarts


Okay, so Jacob picked me to do the next blog, so here it goes. Today at the beginning of class, Ms. Nakada  took roll while the students wrote down the agenda and the homework. Ms. Nakada checked the homework. Then, the whole class started to review the homework and what happened in chapter 3 of The Outsiders. After, Ms. Nakada told the class to take out their reading journals to go over the step-up to writing. They talked about the different questions you could ask/write down when it comes to cornell notes. Then, Ms. Nakada assigned everyone and alpha smarts. It took a while because we had a little mix up. So after everyone got their Alpha Smarts, Ms. Nakada told everyone to type their paragraph that we wrote in class yesterday. Not everyone finished.Well, class is about to end, BYE!

Jacob's blog

English 8
Blog
summer assignments
The Writing Process
Step-Up to Writing
HW: RJ 2.1 The Outsiders chapter 3

Today I was picked for the blog and I was dreading it the whole time Rita was thinking of who to pick, but I guess it's good to get it over with. Now here's what happened during period 6. We continued our writing process with saying how we write and a few people shared what they wrote. We finished the writing process by writing down four  questions and writing a summary. We started a new page in our notebook titled step up to writing. We did GO, SLOW DOWN, STOP, and BLUE. we had to do a paragraph about a subject but we didn't have a lot of time and not everyone finished. An announcement was said but it was hard to hear. They reminded us of early dismissal tomorrow and for teachers to turn in their verification rosters.

Friday's Blog

Agenda
English 8
BLOG
Reading/Writing Notebook
The Writing Process
R.J. 1.1-1.2
HW: Summer Assignment Due Monday!

Ms. Nakada's computer was acting crazy so we didn't do the blog. :(

Rita's Blog

AGENDA

English 8th grade

• blog 
• summer assignment 
• reading journals
• The Outsiders- Ch1 
• HOMEWORK- read chp 2 of The Outsiders

The first thing we did today was we chose the blog background. It is a super duper cool robot for now. 

Now we discuss and review the summer assignment. The assignment is due next Monday. The book list is on Mrs. Jacobson's page. So sad she had to leave us, but now we have super duper awesome Ms. Nakada. We breifly discuss the form it is to be written in and the finer points. (Format of Ms. Jacobson's page.) To those whom did not read a book on the reading list, any book you read over the summer will do.

READING LOG

Table of contents:  Tittle, Author, Date, C/A (completed or abandoned)

First Semester Reading Plan: 6 books, 2 can be re-reads, and 4 must have an AR test, and you will have to do book projects on any 4. 

A good reader always has a reading plan so now we we are now disscussing the books we would like to read during this semester. 

Example on how to write a reading log below.

1.1  The Outsiders                                                                    pgs. 1-18

Ponyboy walks home from the theatre, when he gets jumped by the Socs. His brothers and friends come and chase them away. 

1.2   The Outsiders                                                                   pgs. 19-37

And so on. These summaries should be short and sustinct cutting to the main points. It is okay to include narrarators observations and introduce other characters. 

And it is the end of class. So long. 

 

Ms. Nakada's First Day of School Blog

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

The bell for sixth period rang and there were only about 20 students in class. Slowly, more students straggled in until every desk was filled. 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.

It was really hot, but no one really complained which impressed me quite a bit. Definitely a good sign about this class... We went over the course outline so everyone knew what to 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 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 or during ET. 

We then started our blog and it must have been too hot for anyone to even think... We tossed around names like Shut Up and Write, The Fried Rice Blog and finally settled on Giggity Giggity Gog Blog. So there it is, our first blog of the school year...