Soriyah’s English Blog

 Yesterday I was not here so I opened up Illuminate and submitted my last two sentences of my paragraph. Then I bean to work my assignment in the group which was to be the researcher. I looked up things about The Rockpile by James Baldwin. Things that you should know before reading and instresting facts about the novel. After I submitted that I started on the rockpile discussion and got to 6 questions out of 10. Im going to finish the rest after school.

 We started the class off with what we did on Friday, I wasn't here Friday so I started on mine today. We did an argument paragraph on whether social media was positive or negative for teens. I did negative and I almost finished but I had two more sentences left. After that, we got a group assignment that was on Mural. I have the researcher. Then we read a story called The Rockiple. We had to read it to start the assignment.

 Today we worked on the Explaining evidence part of an argument. We already talked bout claim and evidence before the break. Explaining the evidence has to be two or more sentences. It is also the most crucial part. We did a quick case as a class determining if the evidence proved if the man was guilty or not. Afterward, we read an article, wrote the proof of the claim given to us, and then provided the explanation. 

 We had a whole week this fall break, so I did a decent amount of things. Saturday and Sunday, I went to my little cousins' sleepover and ate at Hibachi. Monday and Tuesday, I just slept in and ate, things like that. Wednesday I got my baby cousin and I had him for the rest of the week. Thursday and Friday me and him just went to the park and played most of the day. Saturday he left and I went to a party and Sunday I just regathered myself for school/hoco week and cleaned my room.

 Today we had a fire drill. Once we came back we did a Newsela as a class. It was about why or why not you should stand for the flag. We also did the questions together but we read the last article together and the last question. 

 Today in class, we read an article and wrote three claims based on the topic given in the paper. We had to write the claim, list its type, and make an opposing claim. I did it wrong, but I didn't notice until I was done, but at least I did it. The article was about why you should be in college for three years and why you should take all four years of college. Actually, I redid it and hope it's the right way but yeah.

 Today we did an assignment on Canvas but the instructions were on paper. We did the first two as a class and we had to do five more on our own. They also gave an example on the paper. After we made the sentences into a claim we had to have a criteria list of five. I finished mine in the last 8 minutes of class; I would've got done earlier but I wrote mine on paper and then typed it because I like writing and my handwriting is so pretty. After I typed it out on Canvas I submitted it and typed this blog. That's all we did today while the people who were not here on Wednesday took the benchmark test.

 Today we had a test that shows the teachers where we are at. I think i did good I just didn’t have enough time to finish everything. That’s all we did today.

 Today was our second day creating claims. Yesterday, we did the front, which was 3, and today, we are doing the back, which is 3 more. This topic is kind of easy; I just don't get as much as I feel like I should. The teacher is acting like it's really simple and easy, but most or some of us are not really grasping it, I guess. That is all I think we are doing for today though.