Juan’s English blog

 Today in class we were given the book again to read. Four readers were picked to read as the characters Troy, Rose, Bono, Lyon, and the narrator. While reading the people had to act the way that they think the characters would act. While reading we had to write on a worksheet that we were given which were describing the characters in the way they looked, their character trait, personality, their role and what they do for work. Then we also had to write down three interesting quotes from act 1, two themes and then five key points that were said in act 1. We will turn in the paper Friday since we’ll be getting more worksheets for the other acts in the story 

 In class we were told to take out a piece of paper and our chromebooks as well. We were then given a book called Fences by August Wilson. We looked through a slide show as well as answering some questions about if fences physically and metaphorically are important and ways on how they are a bad thing 

 Today in class we had to take out our packets and finish up the rest of the film and answer the other questions that asked us if we could do the journey daily that the children in the film would do and many more. Then on the last page we had to write down a paragraph explaining what we found interesting, liked from the film, disliked from the film, surprised and if we could do the same daily. We also had a level 3 lockdown that had happened by mistake, but once class ended we had to turn in the paper for our class grade.

In class we were told that due to people going to be out Friday we would take the assessment which had 25 questions and asked about the characters, how the setting affected the story and other questions about the story. After we returned from lunch we had a few more minutes to finish up then we were handed a packet about a film call “on the way to school” that was about 4 children from Kenya, India, Morocco, and Argentina and how they would get to school daily and what motivated them to make the long journey to school. Before watching the film we had to answer a question that asked us what troubles could be faced on our way to school as well as writing down 2 traditions that are done in the countries that the children are from.

 In class today we were handed a paper with directions on a assignment that will be due Thursday and another piece of blank paper. The assignment is for us to draw our childhood neighborhood and add our family, sore eye in the neighborhood, 10 rules we had growing up, and an accident that was bad that happened in our neighborhood. When we finished we have to post it onto blog for us to present on Thursday to the whole class. We will also be taking the assessment for The Rockpile Friday instead of Thursday because of the presentations of the drawn neighborhoods

 In class we had a sub that we were told we’d have because of the teacher not coming to school. We were handed a sheet of paper and told to take out a piece of paper because the sheet will be used for other classes. The paper had 7 questions asking why the setting was important, why Elizabeth was protective of Josh, why Roy and Josh were sitting on the fire place, significant of the rock pile and other questions about the characters

 In class we began with write notes down on what direct and indirect characterization as well as writing down what STEAL meant. We learned that STEAL meant speech, thoughts, effects, actions and looks. Once we were done we were given a piece of paper as well as all given a certain character which were either Roy, Josh, Gabriel and the mom. On the paper we had to look through the story finish examples of the different character traits and write them down on the paper that we were given. Once we finished the paper at the end of class we had to turn it into the teacher 

 Today in class we were told to look up a story called The Rockpile made by James Baldwin. The story was about siblings named Roy and John and them living in a bad neighborhood where lots of crime happen. One day John notices some of Roy’s friends calling him down. Roy ends up telling John he’ll take 5 minutes but once John is done with his drawing Roy still isn’t back. That’s when John notices roy and his friends fighting that’s when John sees a can get throw at Roy causing him to bleed close to his eye and fall. While reading we were told to answer a total of 11 questions and share our responses when randomly picked

 In class we were each given a different letter either A or B. Which ever one we got was the assessment that we were supposed to do and each had different codes to get into. There was 30 questions on the assessment which was on the poem “Constantly Risking Absurdity”. The questions asked about what different lines meant as well as having to give the definition for words that were used in the poem but in a different literary way that they were used.

 In class we were told to take out our separate sheet of paper as well as the poem so that we could answer the questions. The whole class period we were allowed to finish and answer the questions and turn them in at the end of class. The questions would ask how you visualized some of the lines in the poem as well as how it related to being a poet and the difficulties it comes with being one.