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Week 17: G-Q-Q-L

Poetry Submissions

HW RJ 17.2 Read toward IRP goal.

Poetry Submissions due Friday!

30 iReady lessons for the semester

    Everybody sat down in their seats for the beginning of English class. Ms. Nakada started playing this week's take a minute video to begin class but out deep breathing was interrupted with a very unwanted ad. Ms. Nakada just decided to end the take a minute there and Maddy came up to read her blog. Maddy read her blog, and then was I think just going to spin the wheel normally, but of course, Marcel and Greg had to convince her to put me more times. I was expecting her to add my name maybe like five or ten more times, but no. Apparently, I was deserving of having my name added 55 times on the wheel. As Ms. Nakada spun the wheel, I think everybody in the classroom expected the wheel to land on my name. The wheel almost landed on Luke's name but sadly didn't so I had to come up towards the front of the classroom to write the blog.

    As we transitioned into the next portion of class, Week 17: G-Q-Q-L everybody got out of there notes and got ready to copy this weeks question, What do you look to for understanding the difference between right and wrong? The class discussed the the question for a couple of minutes with Ms. Nakada and then we watched a Get Lit performance from two Harvard-Westlake students on "For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide by Ethridge Knight and then a response poem to that poem titled, "Trumpets".

    Next, Ms. Nakada had everybody start working on their poetry submissions, and if they were finished, she had them get into groups on up to four, to do memorize a poem and come up with their own response. Everybody started working on their poetry submissions, and then out of nowhere the class got extremely loud. Ms. Nakada almost immediately pointed out that our class was the only class that got loud when dismissed to complete work, and that all of her classes work very quietly. After hearing this wake-up call, the class instantly became almost soundless as Ms. Nakada could finally do her work in peace. Lastly, Ms. Nakada reminded the class that it was nice that a lot of people came up to get paper, but to please leave it in a neat stack and not leave it all chaotic on the front desk.

    As we crept towards the last couple minutes of class, Ms. Nakada informed the class that the period was almost over and that everybody should start packing up. The bell rang and Ms. Nakada told everybody to "have a good day" as the class slowly filed out and headed to fourth period.