*3rd Hour: Cans?!
*Discussion #4
*Last 10 minutes: Return Essays
---complete essay reflection
*HW: Section #5
---pp. 164-214
---Discussion #5 Friday
*OBJECTIVE: Apply post-reading strategies to comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate text.
3 comments:
As soon as I entered the room today, I found everyone plastered to the wall reading the previous day's results of the Wordle assignment. Not long after class started, students started complaining about the smell of the classroom. However, those complaints didn't last that long because we had a fire drill to dismiss our complaints. It seemed like a good five minutes when we were outside. Mr. Becker in a different yet hilarious manner, called for a student who did not answer at first. Of course, everyone laughed. Hoping that the fire drill would continue, I must have jinxed it when I said that we had been outside for a while. As soon as we entered the classroom, once again, people plastered themselves to another wall like wallpaper to see what their grades were. We sit down and get straight to discussing the section we had just finished. As fast as I had mentioned a starting topic, the discussion took off like a rocket set to take off, just not when everyone (or at least myself) expected it to. From then on, we moved swiftly from subject to subject like a smooth transition between paragraphs. Midway through the discussion, I lost interest in the discussion and thought to myself that class now seemed like the dull, worn end of a pencil that had just been used to write a paper or something. Alas, I rejoined the conversation, and soon after, Mr. Becker was made aware of the five minute deadline closing in on us. We finished up our discussion while Mr. Becker handed back our essays. The bell rang and everyone fled like prisoners in the middle of a jailbreak. Lately, it seems that we all have been more than eager to leave as soon as the bell rings. Why else would everyone pile up at the door like a can of compressed anchovies?
Jenna L. 1st hour- Another regular morning at high school, tuesdays have more energy than mondays. When I walked into the classroom, I took a worksheet from the table and checked today's agenda when I realized there was a group of students observing the giant wordle we created. When I took my seat, I noticed the name, Rebecca, and the word, mysterious, stood out the most with a giant font size. Right away I could make the connection between the two. The class discussion is usually lead by Mr. Becker, but today it was lead by our student teacher. I still feel bad for forgetting his name, but at least I know that he is in the classroom during our hour. Ten minutes before the bell rang, we recieved our essays back and had to evaluate them with the worksheet we picked up from the table. Students packed up during the announcements and left when the bell rang knowing that we will have another discussion on friday.
Katherine L. 3rd hour
As we all walk into class we notice the word bubbles that Mr. Becker created yesterday from our lists. Everyone is amazed by them and we think that they are pretty cool. As the class begins we all pull out our responses for this section of the reading if we did them. Mr. Becker then announces that some people will be switching from responses to the quote things that we did with Dante’s inferno due to low quiz scores. We are then informed that Mr. Daughtery will be leading our discussion and then we began. Everyone patiently awaited with their hands raised for their turn to speak. Chris shares with us that he thinks it’s weird that the narrator fears Maxim and he thinks that it’s because she doesn’t really know him all that well and because he hides stuff from her. Bobby points out that the narrator is given an ill-prepared maid because she (the narrator) doesn’t ask for much. Nick then finds it strange how Rebecca dies because she was in a 3 ton ship and ships like that just don’t sink that easily. Danny notices that every time the narrator asks Maxim something he always changes the subject to whatever it is that he wants to talk about. Mr. Daughtery reads a passage from the book about when the narrator says that Maxim is like her father, her brother and her son and we all find it really weird that she said that because they are married and she should think about him as a husband, not any of the other things she said. Angie and Taylor then point out that they think that the narrator and Maxim want to be married, just not to each other, they just want to fill that void in their lives. Collyn thinks that Mr. Favell is a bad person because he acts weirdly and tries to hide his car and everything. The class thinks that everyone in the book thinks that they know something that everyone else doesn’t know about Rebecca but in reality they all know the same thing. With 15 minutes left of class, Mr. Daughtery wraps up our discussion and starts passing out our essays. After everyone looks over their essays and writes a response, everyone packs up and gets ready for their next class with 5 minutes left.
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