Soriyah’s English Blog

 Today we had a sub and the class was chill and quiet as always. Sometimes I wish we could do more interactive things together, but, we did a NewsEla assignment. We had to read the article, do a quiz, and do a writing prompt. The article was about how unsafe it is to look your symptoms up online instead of going to the doctor.

 Today we got a new list of vocabulary. I think the test is next week, I can't remember. Today we just had to write the definitions and a sentence for each word. We also had to fill in the blank with all the words. It was easy and I thought I couldn't finish it in class but I did with extra time left over.

 Today we started off by revising our essay a little bit and highlighting the thesis in the introduction and conclusion. We also highlighted any suffocated words. After we did that we got a paper to read over someone's paper and make notes on it. My partner didn't do any revisions for me so I re-read my paper and I just did another teacher's work for the rest of the class. revisement 

 Today I just wrote, edited, and typed my conclusion. Everything else I have typed and I will get someone to proofread it for me. The conclusion was fairly easy. I only had trouble restating the thesis, but everything else flowed together after my first sentence.

 We learned how to make an Introduction and what a thesis statement is. I thought I knew what my thesis statement meant but we all have different definitions and ways of learning things. This year I am learning to make an Introduction and Conclusion differently than my years before this, so hopefully my paper will come out well by trying a modified way. We learned a three-point thesis statement and the umbrella thesis. I finished my introduction, proof read, and edited it. So now all I have to do is my conclusion, fixing it, and typing it all down. 

 Today in class there wasn't much talking we just chose a third sub-topic and made it into a paragraph. Since I was not here Wednesday I revised my first and second paragraphs. After I revised I started on my third. I chose losing weight as a goal of mine for my third paragraph. I also revised that paragraph as well. When I finished It all I re-read all of them and that's all I did for today.

 Today, we chose our own topic and made a cluster after he explained the lesson to us. He gave us options to choose from, and mine was goals. I then made 5 sub-clusters and chose 2 to write about. The two I chose were spending less time on my phone and being more respectful. I made 3 explanations for each sub-cluster and use them to make my sentences. That is all we did in lass today.

 Today we got a new lesson. I think it is easier than the others, but the others weren't hard. We wrote notes on the writing process. Its 5 steps and we went into detail about step 1. Where we brainstorm. Some people have trouble brainstorming so we learned one of the 3 ways to help us. That way was to make a web or something like that. One circle in the middle is your topic and the other small bubbles are the subtopic and u add details to your subtopic. After we learned about it we did one as a class and that is all we did today.

 Today we read and analyzed another Emily Dickinson poem. We didn't do the questions from yesterday but we did the questions for today. I also did a little more analysing on my poem on my own than usual. We did today's poem questions as a class. Then we got an assignment where we have to decipher a sentence from different Emily Dickinsons' poems.

 Today we started by taking a Vocabulary quiz, our first one. I failed but you have to fail to succeed like I learned in the Poem we read today. The poem was called ¨Success is counted sweetest" by Emily Dickinson. We have been reading a lot of Emily Dickinson lately. After we analyzed the poem we packed up and we are ging to go over the questions tomorrow.