Monday 13th

Today in class we didn't really do anything, because we had a substitute teacher. All we really had to do was work on a paper sheet about the story "The Rockpile." We had to write out answers on a sperate sheet of paper. I wasn't able to finish answering all the queastions before the bell rang. And the substitute teacher pciked up the papers early. The queastions were mostly about the setting of the story.

Friday Nov 10

 In class we finished reading the story because we didn’t have enough time on Thursday. Once we finished the story and finished answering the questions we took out our notebook to take notes. We learned about characterization and S.T.E.A.L. There are two types of characterization; the first one is direct characterization where the author tells us about the characters while indirect characterization is when the author doesn’t directly tell us, but gives us hint about the character. Something new we learned about was S.T.E.A.L. and how it can help us identify the characteristics of a character. 

Thursday Nov 9

In class, we started reading a new story online called "The Rockpile." We first started class by answering a warm up question on a sheet of paper talking about our neighborhood that we grew up in and how the environment was like. Our answers had to be at least a paragraph long. Once everyone was done some people from the class were called on to reas what they wrote. Afterwards we started the story and as we went we had to answer some questions. The story was about 2 brother Roy and John who lived in a bad neighborhood. They weren’t allowed to go outside or anywhere near the rock pile because it was dangerous.

Monday Nov 6th

Today in class we had to present our poems. There was a spinning wheel with the names of those students who posted their poems on the blog. When our name was chosen from the wheel we had to go up and find our name for our blog and save our poem so that we could make it bigger so that the class would be able to read along. I was the second person to present. I felt nervous going up and reading my poem but I wanted to get it over with. I first told the class the title of my poem and then started reading my poem. I read it carefully so I would miss any words or stutter while reading. Once done we had to tell the class our two themes, I felt relief when I was done presenting.

Friday Nov 3rd

 Today in class we took a test on Illuminate. The test was on the poem we've been working on in class called "Constantly Risking Absurdity." There were 2 different tests and we were assigned either to take test A or B. I had to take test B. While we were taking the test we were allowed to use the poem that was annotated. The notes helped me answer most of the questions on the test.

Thursday Nov 2nd

 Today in class we started a new assignment. We had to create our very own poem. It could be about anything we wanted and it was up to us if we wanted to make it rhyme or not. I thought it was something fun to do but when we were given the paper I spaced out. I was struggling at first coming up with what topic I wanted to talk about but after some time I was able to come up with a topic. In the poem we had to include alliteration, imagery, simile, metaphor, and hyperbole. I found it easier to add them rather then making a whole poem.

Poem picture