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 Agenda:  Take a minute  Blog/Corrections Week 3: Quiz HW: Read p. 100-185 of SCHOOL TRIP  by Tuesday. We all came in quietly and took down our chairs, and took out our binder reminders. We wrote down the agenda. Then, Jaiden read his blog to the class. After he read the blog, he chose Joleigh to write the next blog, and Joleigh asked Ione to come up with her. Then, we did blog corrections, and Joleigh and Ione went up to do their blog. After we finished doing the blog corrections, Ms. Nakada told us to pull out our English notebooks and Chromebooks so we can do the Week 3 Quiz. When everyone finished the test, the bell rang. Then, Ms. Nakada dismissed us.

Agenda Take a minute blog/corrections week 3: Lines School Trip HW: Read School Trip p. 1 - 100.  We started off the day by doing our agendas. Then, we took a minute. After that, Jayden read his blog and couldn't stop laughing. Then, we started doing week 3 song lines on ''What's Going On'' by Marvin Gaye and discussing what the song is about. We said the song was about the Vietnam War and the impact on people here in America. Then, we packed up, and the bell rang.

Agenda  take a minute blog corrections week 3: Quote and Question reader's/writer's workshop We start off the day by doing our agenda. Then, we watched the take a minute video. After that, Kaadra does her blog, and we take some notes in our notebooks. In writers workshop we were working on our personal writing process. Then, the bell rang, and we left the class.

 Take a minute  Blog/Corrections Week 3: grammar,quote,question New Kid   ,  Class Act review HW: Read School Trip p. 1 - 185 by Tuesday.  We start our day off by writing down the agenda for the day. The class then gets quiet; we start our daily meditation. Then, it's time to start reading the next person's blog. We read through the blog, and then I was selected to write the next blog for the class.  Whoever decided they wanted to retake their test from last week, got the opportunity and the people who decided their test looked good continued on with doing the work for today which was our week 3 grammar, quote, question.   Next, we wrote some of our notes down and it was time to pack up. We cleaned up and got ready to leave before Ms. Nakada dismissed us.            

 Take a minute  blog\corrections  Writers's Workshop  Week 2 Quiz  HW: Read SCHOOL TRIP p. 1 -99.  Landon read his blog from the day before, and we all listened to him choking as he read through it, because he ate a granola bar before. After, Ms. Nakada corrected his mistakes from his blog. Then, he picked me to do the blog for today. Later, Ms. Nakada told us about the personal writing process, and we wrote about ours.  Soon after that, we started the Week 2 Quiz and learned Ms.Nakada's expectations when taking a Quiz. Finally, we packed up, and the period was over.

Take a minute blog/corrections week 1: lines writers workshop personal writing process HW read P.1-99 of School Trip by Monday.  Anabelle read the blog. We listened to "We Are Going to Be Friends" again.  We got some paper and we had to glue it to are paper. We read the poem, "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver. Then, we talked about what the poem is trying to say. The poem is called a prose poem.  We went back to table of contents. We started a new page called "writer's workshop." In "Writer's workshop" we were talking about texting and making sure if you send it they understand what you're saying. We talked about the writing process. 

 Take a minute Blog / corrections Week 1: Song. Lines. Short autobiographies Writer's workshop HW: Read p. 1-99 of SCHOOL TRIP by Monday We started to do our Reader's Workshop, and the question was "why read?" Some people said, because of vocabulary. Another question was "What do good readers do?" Other people said, to understand the book. And now we are learning about our Week 1: Grammar. Quote. Question. Song. Lines. The Grammar is what's a noun: A noun is a person, place, and thing. The Quote was "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Question of the day was "What do you hope for?" The song is " We are going to be friends" by The Whites Stripes. 

Agenda Take a minute  Blog/ corrections  week 1: Grammar. Quote. Question Reader's workshop Hw- Read p.1-99 of School Trip by Monday. We opened our binder reminders, and we wrote down the agenda. After, we opened our English notebooks, and we did a Table of Contents. After the Table of Contents, we did our Reader's Workshop notes. We answered the question: who are you as a reader? Then, we wrote Week 1 in our Table of Contents. 

 AGENDA take a minute blog/corrections collect letters notebook set-up SCHOOL TRIP books HW read p. 1-99 of SCHOOL TRIP by Monday We started by doing a breathing practice. Jonathan read his blog and chose me to do one. Right now, we got books: a SCHOOL TRIP book and My Perspectives book. Then, we started reading the books, practicing quiet time. Our job is to finish the homework by Monday. We were  reading SCHOOL TRIP and trying to get to page 99 for our homework. We are also taking it home to finish it. We took out our notebooks for English class. Tomorrow we will set them up.  We wait patiently for the teacher to let us leave the classroom. 

Agenda  take a minute  blog/ corrections  collect co/syllabus  first day letters /books  week 1 Quiz  Today, we came in and sat down in the seats we got yesterday. We did the first day letters, and Ms. Nakada read her first day letter. Then, we did our first day letters. Then, Ms. Nakada collected the c.o./syllabus. For the rest of the period, we worked on our first letter.  Class ended with everyone cleaning and packing up and waiting to be dismissed. 

AGENDA new seats welcome take a minute course outline first day letter HW: Return signed course outline. Gather materials. Somehow, after all of these weeks, it was the first day of school, again! After AT, my period one came into class; we settled into our seats. I welcomed my first group of eighth graders and everyone wrote down the agenda. Then, we took a minute by watching the video. I passed out the course outlines, and we read through it together. We discussed materials for the class, rules, grades, and keys for success. Then, we went over the syllabus and all that we will be reading, writing, and learning this semester.  Then, we watched a quick video about lettering, and everyone started a name card.  We discussed the blog and, let's be honest, this class came up with a brilliant blog name, so here we are.  Did we start reading the letter? I can't remember. And that was it! First day of first period check, done!