Agenda
- take a minute
- blog - corrections
- week 3: G-Q-Q-S-L
- reader's workshop
HW: RJ 3.2 I.O. & B.A. p. 213-234
When the bell rang, almost everybody was already in their seats (apart from me who barely made it into the classroom on time). After getting settled in, the students started copying down the agenda from the board onto their binder-reminders. In the middle of the take a minute video, Ms. Nakada asked if anybody knew where Ms. White's classroom was, and I raised my hand. She told me to deliver this paper to Ms. White's classroom as the rest of the class continued copying down the agenda and the take a minute video came to a close.
After I returned from Ms. White's class, I stepped into the class, I immediately saw the wheel with everybody's name on it representing all of the potential victims of writing today's blog. Before I started paying attention to everybody arguing about who and who shouldn't go on the wheel, I finished copying down the agenda since Ms. Nakada had told me to leave while I was in the middle of writing it.
Ms. Nakada typed in the last sprinkle of names into the wheel, shuffled all of the names, and finally spun the wheel. At first while the wheel was in about the middle of spinning, I couldn't locate where my name was but as the wheel started to slow down, I finally spotted it, but I wasn't so happy to see it. It was quite obvious where the wheel was going to land down on, and after hoping and praying that somehow it would slow down or speed up and not land on my name, I got sent back to really when the arrow was pointing smack in the middle of my name. I brought all of my belongings up to the blogger's chair and waited for Ms. Nakada to unlock the computer as she put on this week's "Immigrants: We Get the Job Done" by K'naan feat. Residente, Riz MC, and Snow Tha Product.
The song started playing as Ms. Nakada typed in the password for the blogger's computer, so I could start writing. The song was extremely loud and energetic and made you feel like you had something to prove. The song ended and we discussed that the video was about how immigrants benefit America and why we need them. Then, Ms. Nakada started to talk about that the video for the song took place in a train that represented "La Bestia" or "The Beast" which is a train that helps a lot of Mexican immigrants enter the United States. Ms. Nakada also mentioned that the song was not just representing one immigrant or one group of immigrants, but every immigrant out there. Everybody was instructed by Ms. Nakada to writes own the favorite line for the song, and then to put their notebooks away and either work on iReady or read Inside Out and Back Again.
The class went silent for the most part as Ms. Nakada announced who had completed their required iReady minutes for the week while everybody was doing their work. Finally, the long awaited silence had broke when Ms. Nakada told everybody there were allowed to pack up their stuff. As everybody packed up their materials, the volume of the classroom catapulted back up again as the bell rang while everybody filed out of the classroom.
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