*OBJECTIVE: Apply post-reading strategies to comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate text
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Katherine Lebron Garcia 3rd hour As everyone is walking into class we hear Nick say “Mr. Becker, I’m pretty sure that my name is not Nicholi” and he also mentions that he doesn’t want to speak again so that he’s not in any more notes, therefore he needs to learn sign language, sorry Nick but you’re going to be in at least one more scribe note. After the bell rings Me. Becker walks around and checks everyone’s responses if they did them. Soon after, we start our discussion and nick shares with us that whenever he reads the words “newspeak” it reminds him of “Newsweek” which makes us all chuckle. One by one everyone starts raising their hands and patiently waiting their turn to share their opinions. Ian tells us that his favorite part in the book is when Winston tells us that his ex-wife, Katharine, called getting pregnant as fulfilling their duties to the party. Mr. Becker makes it clear to us that in order to get married the party had to approve of it and the people can’t be attracted to each other. Garret explained to us how he believed that the reason that you cant be attracted to your spouse is because the people cant be loyal to the party if they have to be loyal to their spouse at the same time. Another point we made is that the party can eliminate or vaporize anyone that they want. Throughout all of this Mr. Daughtery is over at his desk intensely glaring at the computer screen and typing. Bobby tells us that when he read about the speakwrite that he thought that it was a phone, a telescreen, and a camera all at the same time. Everyone on my side of the room is listening intently to everyone’s opinions and even sharing our own. Currently, Tara is underlining something on her connections worksheet; looks like someone got a connection! Haha. Mr. Becker just a asked us to get out our books and flip to page 45 and then he proceeded to read us a paragraph about words in newspeak. We established that most of the publications written in the book have to be written in newspeak. We also decided that negative stuff is what makes the party tick. Nick makes us all chuckle by saying that “in two years, people will be using newspeak to destroy their newspeak.” With 15 minutes remaining in class, we start talking about the children and how a little girl turned a guy because he was wearing “strange” shoes. As the bell rings, we all pack up and hurry on to our next class.
I walked into first hour with not only the usual drowsy disposition, but also with a slight amount of guilt. I was to finish reading the designated pages the night before. Unfortunately, my procrastination got the better of me. Realizing today was to be our discussion day, my heart sank as if it were made of pure lead. Determined not to expose my vulnerability to Mr. Becker, I took my seat preparing for the discussion ahead. The conversation began as it had before with a few students whom legitimatly had something to add to the discussion leading the way, while the rest of the class whom did not particularly enjoy public speaking did their best to get in a word or two to earn their points for the day. With my "plusgood" or dare I say "doubleplusgood" acting skills I managed to make it through the entire discussion without being discovered. The hour ended with the frantic reading of the daily announcments. Paying little attention to them my mind drifted off to thinking about what i would write about in this very paper that you are reading right now. Just when I was reaching the deepest levels of thinking that I was capable of, I was brought back to reality by the outrageous thought of selling FIFTEEN TONS of cookie dough, which was merely a misunderstanding commonly shared throughout the class. Mr. becker finding this funny shared a quick chuckle with the class before the bell rang signaling the end of first hour.
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Katherine Lebron Garcia
3rd hour
As everyone is walking into class we hear Nick say “Mr. Becker, I’m pretty sure that my name is not Nicholi” and he also mentions that he doesn’t want to speak again so that he’s not in any more notes, therefore he needs to learn sign language, sorry Nick but you’re going to be in at least one more scribe note. After the bell rings Me. Becker walks around and checks everyone’s responses if they did them. Soon after, we start our discussion and nick shares with us that whenever he reads the words “newspeak” it reminds him of “Newsweek” which makes us all chuckle. One by one everyone starts raising their hands and patiently waiting their turn to share their opinions. Ian tells us that his favorite part in the book is when Winston tells us that his ex-wife, Katharine, called getting pregnant as fulfilling their duties to the party. Mr. Becker makes it clear to us that in order to get married the party had to approve of it and the people can’t be attracted to each other. Garret explained to us how he believed that the reason that you cant be attracted to your spouse is because the people cant be loyal to the party if they have to be loyal to their spouse at the same time. Another point we made is that the party can eliminate or vaporize anyone that they want. Throughout all of this Mr. Daughtery is over at his desk intensely glaring at the computer screen and typing. Bobby tells us that when he read about the speakwrite that he thought that it was a phone, a telescreen, and a camera all at the same time. Everyone on my side of the room is listening intently to everyone’s opinions and even sharing our own. Currently, Tara is underlining something on her connections worksheet; looks like someone got a connection! Haha. Mr. Becker just a asked us to get out our books and flip to page 45 and then he proceeded to read us a paragraph about words in newspeak. We established that most of the publications written in the book have to be written in newspeak. We also decided that negative stuff is what makes the party tick. Nick makes us all chuckle by saying that “in two years, people will be using newspeak to destroy their newspeak.” With 15 minutes remaining in class, we start talking about the children and how a little girl turned a guy because he was wearing “strange” shoes. As the bell rings, we all pack up and hurry on to our next class.
Erik H.
1st Hour
I walked into first hour with not only the usual drowsy disposition, but also with a slight amount of guilt. I was to finish reading the designated pages the night before. Unfortunately, my procrastination got the better of me. Realizing today was to be our discussion day, my heart sank as if it were made of pure lead. Determined not to expose my vulnerability to Mr. Becker, I took my seat preparing for the discussion ahead.
The conversation began as it had before with a few students whom legitimatly had something to add to the discussion leading the way, while the rest of the class whom did not particularly enjoy public speaking did their best to get in a word or two to earn their points for the day. With my "plusgood" or dare I say "doubleplusgood" acting skills I managed to make it through the entire discussion without being discovered.
The hour ended with the frantic reading of the daily announcments. Paying little attention to them my mind drifted off to thinking about what i would write about in this very paper that you are reading right now. Just when I was reaching the deepest levels of thinking that I was capable of, I was brought back to reality by the outrageous thought of selling FIFTEEN TONS of cookie dough, which was merely a misunderstanding commonly shared throughout the class. Mr. becker finding this funny shared a quick chuckle with the class before the bell rang signaling the end of first hour.
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