week of 10/25 - 10/29

This week wasn't a very exciting week, Monday through Thursday we read the book "Of Mice and Men". This book is about two men trying to make a living, they go from ranch to ranch to make money to live their american dream. Their dream is to live in a small house with chickens, rabbits, and some cattle, then they could live their lives without the worry that they could loses their jobs. For homework we usually have to complete the pre-reading vocabulary or the post-reading questions. On Friday though we played a game, the game is played by 5 people, each person gets a card with words on them. Only one person has the right definition of the unknown word, and the other 4 have to make up definition that seem plausibly. The object of the game is to convince the class that you have the correct definition. It was a great game.

Week of 10/18-10/22

What makes someone an artist? Is it just their artwork? Or is it a masterpiece? This week in English, we started "Of Mice and Men" and discussed how John Steinback was an artist. We also, worked on vocabulary for each chapter (One and Two). Our quick write was to put, there, their, they're, your, and you're in our own story and use them correctly! To go with our class book, "Of Mice and Men," in our small groups we looked for nouns, adjectives, textures, and colors in Chapter One.

Week of October 11 - 15

This week was a busy week. On Tuesday and Wednesday, we had a short story test. The short stories include, "The Necklace", by Guy De Maupassant, "Marigolds", by Eugenia W. Collier, "Thank You Ma'am", by Langston Hughes, "The Lottery", by Shirley Jackson, and "The Story of an Hour", by Kate Chopin. On Thursday, we made predictions for our class novel that we are going to read next week. The title of the book we are going to read is called, "Of Mice and Man", by John Steinback. In class, we made predictions by observing the book covers. Many students in my class made fun and interesting predictions, and this activity made us motivated to read this novel. On Friday, we went to the auditorium to see a part in the Cinderella Musical. The musical was phenomenal, and it made us want to go see the whole entire musical. That was how our week went. 

Hiroki

Picture for Week of October 4 - October 8

This week we did some Vocabulary skits so we could remember some more difficult words that we have read in our short stories. We also read the short story "Marigolds" in class and discussed it.
Mary Sarah 

Week of October 4-8

Our week started off with vocabulary skits. We each had one word per group to act out. Furthermore, we read the short story Marigolds by Eugenia W. Collier in class. After reading, we had a class discussion about it. To conclude our week we had played Jeopardy in class with questions based off our vocabulary, literary terms, short stories, and character quotes.

The Lottery

Who knew winning the lottery was a bad thing. This week in English we read the short story "The Lottery", written by Shirley Jackson. In this story if you won the lottery you were stoned to death by your friends and family. After reading this story we got the chance to watch the 1969 and the 2007 version of the movie. After watching, reading, and doing worksheets for the story of "The Lottery", we all learned an important lesson. If we know is something wrong, we shouldn't go along with it instead, we should stand up for ourselves and say something. Overall, we learned a vaulable lesson and had a fun time doing it. That's what we did during this week in English.

Week of September 20-24

This week in Miss Nickows first period class we read the short story "Story of an Hour". In the short story we learned about irony. Irony is when you expect one thing to happen and the opposite happens. As a class we also went down to the book fair to check out some books. That is what we did this week in class.

Scott