Misa's First Blog

Agenda
1. Poem/ Blog
2. Author's Chair
3. Finish P.E.E.L.L Paragraphs with groups
4. Lit Circle Book Perusal

Homework

• Prep for final  Malala reflection quote selection
• Finish P.E.E.L.L. paragraphs if not finished during class
• *Illustrate top 3 lines

Today for our daily class routine, we picked two poems to recite instead of four. We chose one old poem ( "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks) and a new poem ("Sonnet 73" by William Shakespeare). Next we went over our daily blog which was published by Erik Goynes. Then Ms. Witham went over our homework for the night and  told us to share our P.E.E.L.L. (Point, Evidence, Explanation, Language and Link) paragraphs with our table groups for about minutes. We were supposed to be finding evidence to support our P.E.E.L.L. paragraphs and write them down on our P.E.E.L.L. strategy.

Unfortunately,  Ms. Witham had a lot planned for today but we spent the entire period on our paragraphs so she offered the Malala book to people who would like to work on it at home. After that Ms. Witham went over what we are going to do tomorrow. When we walk into the classroom we receive a writing prompt that will help us write our final reflection in-class essay. Then the bell rang and I published my bomb blog.

Erik's First Blog

Agenda
1. Poem/Blog
2. Reader's Theater
3. P.E.E.L.L.~ Review sentence frames
4. Author's Chair!*(couldn't get to it, saved for Monday)

Homework
Begin choosing an experience for your personal narrative

Today we started off by reading our four poems for the beginning of class. Then Ms. Witham explained our homework to us so that we would have a better understanding of it. We can use ideas from our Random Autobiographies to help us decide on a significant event to write about. After that we finished our final two groups for our Reader's Theater, which is the reading and explaining of certain passages of the book I Am Malala.

Then we practiced for the first time today how to do the P.E.E.L.L. (Point, Evidence, Explanation, Language, Link) strategy, which Ms. Witham gave us ten minutes to get as far as we could on, and she gave us the option of working by ourselves or with our group. Then we turned in our R.A. (Random Autobiography) and the period was over.

Estefany's First Blog

English   09/22/16
Agenda

1. Poem/ Blog
2. Current event Quickwrite } share any new information
3. Reader's Theater (evidence gather)

Homework

1.Continue Curent event Quickwrite
2.Type Random Biography *read out loud


Today, the class began with reciting our usual poems. Adding "Sonnet 73" by William Shakespeare. After Ms.Witham finished answering questions about our new poem we then moved on to our "Current Event Quickwrite". We then shared our current significant news with our groups and settled the objective of our assignment. After we had that done, we moved on to revising yesterdays blog. Then we continued with the Reader's Theater, in where groups shared their assertion from the book; I Am Malala.

Thomas' First Blog

Agenda
1) Poem
2) Current Event Quickwrite
3) Reader's Theater

Homework
1) Continue C.E.Q (current event quickwrite)
2) Type and print R.A

The class started with the reading aloud of our three poems. After going over the agenda, Ms. Witham explained to us Reader's Theater, which was an activity involving reading and explaining a selected part of the book I Am Malala to the class. We spent some time choosing in our groups which part we would read, which had to connect to a character, conflict, or theme. Somewhere in the middle of that, two people came in to check if we had our textbooks, so we got 30 seconds of a break.

After reading through three parts of the book, we added a PEELL (Point Evidence Explanation Language and Link) for Malala and a current event quickwrite to our journal. Ms. Witham explained it to us, and it was left for homework.

Edgar's First Blog

Agenda
1) Poem/Blog
2) R.A. share --> Revision strategy: +Sensory details
3) Academic Discourse --> Save the last word
Homework
1) Finish R.A.R.D (Random Autobiography Rough Draft)

Today in class we started off by reading our poems, we added a new poem called "Lodged" by Robert Frost to our repertoire. After that we went over Roberto's First Blog, then Ms.Witham went over what made a good productive group. There were a lot of hand signals and what not but I didn't really hear anything because I was typing this blog. When Ms.Witham finished talking about being a good productive group she went over the R.A. (Random Autobiography). She had a few plain sentences and said that instead of leaving them plain we should add some more details to our sentences. So Ms.Witham gave us some time to do some silent work (with a pen for correcting) on our R.A. so that we could add details.

When we were finished with our work some of the students in the class shared some of the revisions they made with the class. After that we continued our "Save The Last Word" work where we shared our favorite Dialectic Journal from I Am Malala with our group and heard their responses.

Then the class was dismissed.

Roberto's First Blog

Roberto's First Blog

Agenda
1. Poem/ Blog
2. Malala D.J.(Dialectic Journal) check (1-6)
3. R.A.(Random Autobiography) share + continue

Homework
1. Finish R.A.R.D (2 sides)
* add sensory detail

   We started the day by reading our poems. Next, Ms. Witham asked us to look in our composition books for our favorite Dialectic Journal and hold onto it. We then read Roger's first blog and corrected it. After, Ms. Witham asked us within our groups to go back to our favorite Dialectic Journal quote, look for it in the book I am Malala, and then have everyone in the group respond to it. Then, we were asked to take out our Random Autobiographies and share it with a partner. In addition, we had to put a star next to our two favorite lines of our poem and share it with our group. Finally, Ms. Witham gave us time to work on the other half of our Random Autobiography.

Rogers first blog

AGENDA
1. poem recital
2. random autobiography and example
2.write about your life
3. check unfinished work for grace period
HOMEWORK
1. grace period late assignments due tomorrow
2. reflection #5 & 6
3. continue random autobiography



Class started with a new setting and changed seating order. Everyone introduced themselves to thier new groups and Ms. Witham said to choose one movie that we would want to to watch repeatidally. Then we recited the poems like every other day. Then we started on a new subject, random autobiography. We read some examples from previous students and Ms. Witham showed us how to start about ourselves. Tomorrow we will have unfinished work check becuase today we ran out of time.

Anthony's First Blogger Shop

 AGENDA
1. Poem-Good Things
2. D.J's or Dialectic Journal #5 and 6
3. Gallery Walk/Syllabus Future Map
4. Notebook Review 
HOMEWORK
1. Dialectic Journal #5 and 6
2. Make up missing work/add to future map

       We started class by reciting our poems as usual, "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar along with "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks. We talked to nearby people about our weekend something good or a silver lining. Ms. Witham told the class her son dropped a glass and it shattered, then her other son led the small menace out. We did Dialectic Journal #5 and #6. Ms. Witham checked our future maps to see if we did them. We walked around for the Gallery Walk which previewed NaNoWriMo resources. A link to the NaNoWriMo website is http://ywp.nanowrimo.org.

JoJo's first blog

It's Friday!!!!
AGENDA

1. Poem-Blog
2. SSR-Malala -Plan for success
3. {Watch Malala's speech}
4. Share: Reflection/Future Map
5. Syllabus/Gallery Walk

*Syllabus due Monday!!!

   The day started well and as soon as I walked into class I had the feeling I was going to become the blogger. Well, I was notified two periods ahead. So we started the day with the usual poems then the picking of the new blogger. After this we went to the SSR of the book I am Malala. While everyone else was reading I asked Ms. Witham if I'll be receiving extra credit. She said "no," and also asking for extra credit is one of Ms. Witham's least favorite questions. Next, Ms.Witham gave us the directions to write down pickup malala after 4th period if it wasn't finished. Once that happened we were able to share our future map with someone we've never talked to. After this Janna showed off her great art work and it was very creative and colorful. Ms. Witham lets us know ahead of time that in November we will be doing a novelist type thing together. That is it for the day, thanks for reading.


                  

Sam's First Blog

9/8/16

Agenda
1. Poem!
2. Blog!
3. SSR~ I Am Malala
4. 5 Week Reflection
5. Syllabus

Homework
1. Reminder Back to School 5-7:30pm (EC)
2. Finish I Am Malala for Monday
3. Complete 5 Week Reflection

We started class by reciting our poems as usual, "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar along with "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks. After reciting the poems we reviewed our last blog. Later Ms.Witham reviewed our homework and agenda before she instructed us to do some silent reading. Once we finished our silent reading time we were instructed to open our notebook to our Table of Contents and add our 5-Week Brainstorm to page 11. After adding that we read a sheet full of "Tips from Successful VHS STEMM Students." At the end of class we were given the prompt for our 5 week reflection and allowed to work on the assignment for the rest of class.

Nick's First Blog

Agenda
1. Poem!
2. Blog!
3. SSR~I Am Malala (finish Somebody/Wanted/But/So)
4. Share Future Map
*Summer Reading
*Portfolios

Homework
1. Read I Am Malala to page 164
2. Finish Future Map Brainstorm

    The first thing we did when we came into class was recite the usual poems "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar and "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks. The next thing we did was add Back to School Night in our agendas from 5:00-7:30 on September 8th. Then, we went back into our Somebody/Wanted/But/So groups to add the finishing details to it. After everyone was done, each group shared their chapter while standing up one at a time as a presentation in the class. When the last presentation was done, Ms. Witham let everyone choose to either read I Am Malala, work on the Future Map Braintorm, or ask her about Jupiter grades. Everyone did one of these things for the last few minutes of class and then we were dismissed.

Rhemus's First Blog

Agenda
ENGLISH
1. Poems!
2. Blog!
3. Malala~revisit-SSR
4. SWBS review
5. Future Map Share

Homework
*Read I Am Malala to page 164
*FInish Future Map Brainstorm

Today is Tuesday, September 6th, 2016. We stated the day off with collecting the Summer Reading if the students that had been here from the first day of school hadn't finished it. Then we went to our ususal poem recitation of "We Wear the Mask" by Paull Lawrence Dunbar and "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks. After our poems we went into our groups to work on or improve our I Am Malala summeries (Somebody/Wanted/But/So) with our partner from Thursday.  After working on our S.W.B.S. we talked about our Future Map Brainstorm and went over how to do it. After this class was over and we were dismissed.

Emmanuel’s First Blog

Agenda

English

1. Poem

2. Blog! Name the blog

3. Malala summaries with a partner

4. Future Map Brainstorm

Homework  

*Future Map Brainstorm

*Read to at least to page 130 in I Am Malala

*Finish your summer reading by 9/6/16

We began to read ‘’We Wear the Mask ‘’ by Paul Lawrence Dunbar.  We also added “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks to our repertoire of poems. Ms. Witham then told us to open our writer’s notebook to add new titles. Those titles were “Malala Summary” (Somebody/Wanted/But/So) page 9 & Future Map Brainstorm pages 9b and 10 . We then chose partners based on our assigned chapters. After that we had to begin to review and summarize our chapter. For homework, we need to plan out our goals by mapping our past, present, and future.

Prabnoor’s First Blog

Agenda

English

1.Poem

2. Review D.J. #1-3

3. SSR – I am Malala

4. Malala Summaries

5. Preview Future Map

Homework

D.J. #4

*Summer Reading (due 9/6) **Newcomer extension: 9/20

*Donors choose--new grant up: “Putting Scholarship Upfront”

We read the poem “We Wear The Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar out loud as usual in the beginning of class. We shared our favorite dialectic journal (D.J.) with a partner. Katherine volunteered to share her favorite D.J. with the class. Then we silently read I am Malala and copied down our chosen quotes for D.J. #4. After that, we got our portfolios for the first time. We then set them up and we put in passed out work.