Monday 16th

Today in class we annotated a poem from Robert Forst. We also watched a short video talking about who Robert Frost was. The poem we annotated was called "Out Out."We first discussed as a class what we thought the poem would be about just from the title. Something we came up with was that the poem was talking about death. Afterward, we started annotating the poem by underlining/ highlighting information such as the setting( time, location, and place) or important information such as who was the poem talking about. In the poem, we found an alliteration which was "Sweet-scented stuff." We also got 2 themes from the poem, the first one was " Don't rush your childhood because it can be dangerous and ruin your life." And the second theme was "Life can end in a blink of an eye."

Friday 13th

 Today in class we were handed 2 pieces of paper, one contained 2 articles about David Chappelle and the Netflix stand-up comedy called "The Closer."The article talks about how some Netflix workers decided to walk out of the studio and gave out sensitive information about how much David Chappelle made as well as other information. We had to take out a separate sheet of paper and write 6 dangerous things comedians talk about. As a class, we wrote down politics, race, sexuality, drugs, religion, and sex.

Thursday 12th

 Today in class we had to take out a separate sheet of paper and on the top wrote Unpopular opinions. Everyone in the class was handed a random piece of paper with an unpopular opinion that we had to say to the class. The unpopular opinion I got was "Rap music is absolute garbage and all sound the same." On the sheet of paper, we had to write down 3 claims. The first one claims is agree with the statement, the second one disagrees with it, and the last claim is a compromise to the statement. Once everyone was done writing their 3 claims, people would be chosen at random to say what opinion they got along with their 3 claims.

Tuesday 10th

 Today in class we had to write down on a separate sheet of paper 5 unknown things that someone would want to explore. I wrote down the afterlife, space, bottom of the ocean, future, and collage. Once we were down writing them down 1 person at a time from each side of the class had to go up to the board and write down one of the things they wrote down. Next in our own opinion, we had to write down if it'll be worth it or not exploring the unknown. Everyone in the class voted that it would be worth it to explore the unknown. So we had to write 5 claims supporting why exploring the unknown is a good thing to the 5 things we put in the beginning. I wrote down how exploring the unknown is important because you'll learn something new, you may be the first to do it, you can make a new discovery, gain knowledge, grow and learn, and finally how it would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. We also had to write down 5 claims stating why exploring the unknown would be a bad thing.

Thursday 5th

 Today we worked independently reading over two articles talking about student loans. The names of the articles are "Dealing with Student Debt" and "Unpacking the Student Loan Dilemma." For each passage, we had to first read it and then underline/ highlight 7 statistics, claims, or facts we found in each passage. Once done reading and highlighting the information needed we had to type what we have onto Illuminate. 

Tuesday 3rd

 Today in class we finished working on the worksheet about "Putting the Brakes on Driverless Cars" and "Get Ready for Roadway Robots." We had to look up the definitions of 6 words that we were given in passages. We also had to write down the 4 claims that are in each passage. As a class, we had already found 3 of the claims in the passage "Putting the Brakes on Driverless Cars", so we only had to look for the last one. In the passage "Get Ready For Roadway Robots" I only had 1 of the claims underlined, so I had to find the other 3 claims left. This assignment was supposed to help us identify claims in a passage when we're reading it.

Monday 2th

 Today in class we took notes about citing evidence. We were given two sheets of paper. One contained 2 different passages talking about whether driverless cars are a good idea. One was against the idea of driverless cars, while the other one was in favor of the idea. While reading the passages we had to highlight the claim in each paragraph.