Deeana's First Blog

Agenda

Blog Corrections

Reading Journal

Reader's Workshop

Step Up to Writing

HW: RJ 4.3

T.O.  p.167-180

Today, we started off by Camyrn reading her blog. She chose me, but I didn't really mind because I wanted to get it over with. Then, Ms. Nakada starts correcting Camryn's blog with the class. After that, Ms. Nakada tells the class to take out their reading journals and read their summaries to their partner about The Outsiders. Next, Alejandra reads her summary. In her summary, she talks about how Dally died and Ponyboy is in the hospital because he was bleeding from his head, because during the rumble one of the Socs were kicking him. Then, Ms. Nakada and the class lists reasons why we could tell Pony wasn't feeling well, saying he killed Bob and not Johnny and Johnny was still alive.  Then, the class takes out their books and does annotations on the two chapters we read last night. They annotate about Pony being in a hospital, but he didn't remember because he passed out. The next annotation is about Randy talking to Pony, because Pony doesn't want to think Johnny is dead, so he says he killed Bob. So Ms. Nakada says Pony is an unreliable narrator because of his condition. They also talk about Pony getting a ride from a complete stranger and Darry getting a call from Dally saying he robbed a supermarket. They meet him at the lot and that's where the police shoot him and he dies. Then, the class reads a book while Ms. Nakada checks reading journals. Next, the class takes out their English notebooks, in their table of contents they write Step-Up to Writing. Step-Up to Writing is a color coded writing strategy that helps with organization and structure.

I think thats pretty much it. I had a fun time writing the blog, and I can't wait to do it again. :)