Tuesday, 12/11/12

• Worked on bill speech, summary, or other classwork
• Bill speech and summary are both due tomorrow - speech at 8AM, summary at 8:45AM
• Be at the library, RM 2907, at 8am
• You will receive points based on being on-time, having your iPoly student ID, and what research you check out pertaining to your senior project topic.

Wednesday,12/05/2012

Hey peeps! its your scribe Andrew again :D this is what we did today

-SSR
-Main questions/feedback
- Continued writing on our speech component

As far as homework goes remember your RD speech component essay is due at 11:59 PM today! Also a peer review is due thursday by 11:59 as well. And don't forget to print out your peer review for Monday! AND REMEMBER tomorrow is model assembly platform day >,< so be at the USRA Major by 8 AM. We got this!
Peace out!

Tuesday 12/04/2012

Hey folks! its your scribe Andrew Again :D
Alright, so today this is what we basically did;
- Had a quick SSR session
- Viewed a presentation on Mt. Sac Connect four program

As far as the connect four program you should look into it just in case for a backup plan for college. Remember joining the connect four program for Mt.Sac puts you ahead in the registration, so you can get your classes!
And as for homework remember to keep updated with dailyoped! Also keep on working on your speech component!
Peace :)

Monday, 12/3/2012

Hello Ladies And Gentleman, I Andrew am here today, to scribe for the week. SO lets do this!

Alright, so basically this is what we did today in class.

-SSR

-Learned about Ethos, Pathos, and Logos

- Worked on our speech component

Thats about it! And tomorrow is four core AND mt. sac will be stopping by to tell us about the connect four program. Also remember to  keep on check with daily oped for news, and work on your speech component! :D

 Peace.

Tuesday, 11/27/12

So yesterday:
-Super Silent Reading
...

Our homework was to go on dailyoped and pick an article we like/found interesting. During class we discussed them with our groups and then as class.

Ortega gave us an article called Grover is Over, we read it and took a few notes in our notebook. After reviewing what the article meant we had time to work our our timed writing pieces.

All notebooks go graded.

Homework: bring research and whatever else you need for your speech.

Also, keep looking at dailyoped ...daily.

Monday, 11/26/12

Hey you guys this is going to be awful because it's like Wednesday and Monday was so long ago.

-SSR
...
After reading, we wrote in our notebooks, Ortega asked a bunch of people for the first sentence of their articles, and we chose our favorites. From there Ortega gave a lecture about attention grabbing sentences. The last few minutes of class we practiced writing sentences for our timing writing speeches.

Also we got our timed writing speeches back.

...
Ortega also started to check some peoples notebooks, but she didn't get to every one. Since I'm super late on this I know that she definitely checks them on Tuesday.

And at 9:26 we left to Ogden's.

Monday, November 19th

Sup Dudes and duddetes, Nick here, scribing for the day of Monday, November 19th. Here was our schedule for those of you who missed it:

• We started the day off with SSR for twenty minutes.
• We then proceeded to work on our newly assigned quick-writes. The topic was our bill for Model Assembly. You had to write about the problem your bill solved, how it did it, and you had to appeal to delegates to motivate them to vote for you. 

Anywho, that was our schedule for the day. It would have been better if I didn't miss all those people who weren't there, but I made it through the day. This has been Nick, and I'll see you guys later.

Wednesday, November 14th

Hey guys! Me again. Lucky you! ;)
So, it was totally weird to have our first rotation class today, but hey, we did it! In case you forgot, class went a little something like this:

• SSR
• We talked about our Thanksgiving party, and how our grand plans may be somewhat diminished
• We went over the Obama the Dealmaker  article. (Here it is again. You're welcome.)
• Then we got a few more handouts, including our grades.

Guys! Don't forget to organize your notebooks! She's going to collect them next week.

Cool! Emma, out!

Tuesday, November 13th

Hey guys! Emma here. It's Tuesday! Woooo!...or something. Well, here's a breakdown of what we did in class today!

• SSR
• Current events quickwrite, with a discussion to follow! (the question was something along the lines of "Now that the election is over, what is going on in politics? How does your knowledge or lack thereof affect the country?"
• Read an article from the NY Times about the fiscal cliff, and discussed pros and cons from the point of view of the author. (here it is!)

...and for homework? Go here and find an editorial article. Print it out and bring it to class tomorrow.

Alright guys, do your homework.

Emma, out!

Thursday, November 8th, 2012

Hey, guys! This week is ALMOST over, yay! But before any of you start planning for the weekend, here's a breakdown of what happened today.

• Literature Circle Presentations
• Which everyone did great on. Good job, guys. c: 

And that's pretty much it. Be sure to bring in two articles for Model Assembly research check tomorrow. See ya later, alligators!

Tuesday, November 6th, 2012

Hey, guys. Here's what we did today!

• SSR
• Work on literature circle presentations 

It was a simple day to say the least. Presentations are for sure on Thursday so get busy, little bees! 

Monday, November 5th, 2012

Hola, North House! I, Marissa Marie, will be your scribe for the week. ^___^ So! Let's get down to business.

• SSR
• Worked on final Literature Circle Presentations 

If you have any book orders, make sure to bring your money and talk to Ortega tomorrow. 

Due to recent unfortunate events happening on Cal Poly, you should make sure you have the Cal Poly Police number in your phone. If you don't already: (909) 869-3070.

Final lit circle presentations are this Thursday!

We are in dire need of tissue! If you want some extra credit, bring in some tissue boxes. (: 

Friday Schedule 11/1

So, basically:

• SSR
• Today was the last day to report to Madestra Ortega books to be counted for October book comp.
• LC Presentations 
• Ortega actually passed out the presentation contract
• We have first rotation monday to work on presentation 
• Rotation 2 is presentation day 

Enjoy your weekend! And by the way... North will prevail!

Book Competition results

• E: 41 books
• S: 39 books 
• N: 37 books 
• W: 25 books

Wednesday's Schedule 10/31

Happy Halloween my kittens, it was amazing day and I am confident that Bobbie, Ricardo, Sydney, Jeanette, Austin, Marissa, Natalie, and I all represented North's artistic and creative tastes! Thanks to everyone else who contributed with supplies and support. 

Anyway, here's our agenda. Be sure to be safe tonight, and refer to the blog with Riah tips! 

Agenda 

• SSR 
• Remember North has a chance to win the book competition! Come home early and read a book before next rotation- it's the last opportunity to get on the record.
• Reader's Theater 
• Assignment 37 or 38, depending how your journal is set up. Basically, here is one of the last options for your LC groups to choose from for last presentations. Today, Ortega informed us that we will have an additional block to prepare for our final presentations, Also, we have until next Thursday to do any of the following:
• You can decide between Tableau, Reader's Theater, Song Parody, and Talk Show
• LC Discussion 
• Last discussion was today, so bad so sad. 
• Share Out 

Friday October 26,2012

                                                                        Today's class went as follows:

• We worked on our working EQ's., and possible answers to answer them.
• We followed with research check #9 

Thursday October 25, 2012

                           Todays Agenda 

•    S.S.R 
• Tableaux ( This is an another option on what you can do for Lit. Circle Presentations).                          
• Lit.Circle Discussions 
• To the three groups that went today good Job

             Research check #8 is tomorrow 

• By tomorrow you should have 23 pieces of research , tomorrow is a short research so you will only need to bring two pieces of research.
• Writing Workshop is due to turn it in on Saturday by 10:00pm

Tuesday October 23, 2012

                      Today's Agenda 

• S.S.R
• Grammar Girl ( Your new grammar best friend)
• This was  the last in class writing workshop day.

Monday October 22, 2012

                           Today's Agenda 

• S.S.R
• Talkshow Option
• L.C Discussion
• Share out 

Friday, October 19, 2012

Today's Agenda

• Research Check

So today was our 7th research checks, and we should all have at least 21 research pieces by now. 

• L.C. Discussion

Since we switched our schedules a bit yesterday and today because of Ms. Ortega's absence, we discussed our books today. You should have talked about an outside source today if you did not do it on Monday.

• Announcements

We had some announcements about Hope Club that meets Wednesdays at lunch in Pellegrini's room. Drama club will start selling from food carts next week (healthy food!). We also voted on the sweater designs.

 Homework

• L.C. Discussion Prep/Outside Source 10/22
• Rough Draft Lesson Plan due 10/22 at 8 AM.
• Polished/Final Draft of WW due 10/27

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Today's Agenda

• Ten-minute Lesson Plan Overview

Since we had four-core today, we had no SSR and went straight into talking about the 10 min. Lesson Plan that we will have to do in about two weeks. You could have taken notes, but here are the links to the worksheets we looked over today:

Template, Contract  

• Anouncements

1. Since Ms. Ortega will not be at school tomorrow, we will have Literature Circle discussions during second block, after Research Check, and will end with SSR. She also asked us to put the Manila folders in number order when we turn it in, to make it easier on her. During House block, we will have some activities led by Jordan and/or decorate the room for Halloween.
2. We also decided on having a house party, and Mariah has set up some sign-up lists on our house Facebook group, so head over there to sign-up to bring food! Also, Bobbie will be in charge of overlooking the door decorations.
3.  The party will possibly be on 10/30, the doors will be checked on 10/31, and we will have a house Pumpkin decorating session on Monday, 10/22, at lunch.
4. From the end of 1st block today, East was currently in the lead of the Book Competition with 17 books. North with 12, West and South with 11. 

Homework

• Literature Circle Discussion Questions/Comments/Research due tomorrow. 10/19
• Rough Draft of Lesson Plan due on 10/22 by 8 AM.
• Final Draft of L.P. due on 10/29
• Polished/ Final Draft of WW due on 10/27 (Saturday)

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Today's Agenda

Ms. Ortega mentioned today that she would not be here on Friday, so we might be having some schedule changes on Thursday and Friday.

• SSR 

We had 20 minutes of reading, and we were able to get up to second place today in the book competition! Currently, the numbers are: 

East - 14

North - 12

West - 11

South - 11 

• Writing Feedback

Today we gave some Feedback to Olivia's 1st draft on physical therapy. Everyone had lots of good suggestions.

• Writing Workshop

We were given 30 minutes to continue working on our pieces or getting others to read them for us and give us suggestions, hopefully this time was a benefit to everyone!

Homework

• Tape your Writing Workshop draft and Peer Review into your English notebook.
• Polished/Final Draft of WW due on October 27th (Saturday). If it's a college prompt, remember to mention that at the top or in the subject title so she can get to it sooner.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Hi everyone! It's Roxana and I'm this week's English blog scribe.

Today's agenda:

• SSR (20 minutes, as always)

We were also able to catch up a bit today and reach 11 books read for the book competition.

• Song Parodies

Ms. Ortega played "I Want It That Way" by the Backstreet Boys and then played the parody "eBay" by Weird Al Yankovic. She showed us this because we will need to do a final presentation on our Literature Circle books, and a song parody is one of the options for this final performance.

• L.C. Discussion Prep

You could either discuss a research piece about your book, or work on a song parody covering a summary of your Literature Circle book. She asked that you only work on this for one discussion session, and you could perform it if your group wished.

• Song Share Out

Today, two people were chosen to share out what their group discussions were about. Sydney shared a summary of V for Vendetta, while I shared a summary of Persepolis.

Homework

Print out your Writing Workshop piece that was turned in on Saturday, and also print out what was written about your piece in the peer review.

October 11th, 2012

Today we had 4 core rotation so our class time was shorter than usual. Today we did:

• SSR
• Literature Discussion
• Class Discussion

Don't forget to turn in your writing workshop piece by this Saturday sometime before 10pm!
Then turn in your comments and answered questions about the paper that you corrected by Sunday night.

October 9th, 2012

• SSR ( 20 min.)
• Peer Review

               - Today in class we talked about the peer narrative draft that we will be doing this weekend. You will be turning in your writing workshop piece online to turnitin.com. This is due October 13! Also, don't forget each person will be reviewing a peers paper and your comments will be due Sundays October 14th. Please try to make an effort when you turn in your first draft and also try your best to give good criticizing. There will be some questions that you will need to answer while you are reviewing your peer's paper as well.

• Writers Feedback

              - We read Sydney's Personal Statement for college and gave advice about what she should add and what she did well on.

• Writing Workshop

               -  We worked on our writing piece and revised our drafts.

• Independent Study

               -  There are three things that you will need to be doing for this component.

1. Do the blog that's due in February with the LIA format questions
2. List your log of hours ON THE BLOG ONLY! Not on Google worksheet or anything else
3. Lastly make sure you get evidence of your learning service ex) pictures

October 8th, 2012

• SSR (20 minutes)
• Read a page about the 3 Little Pigs

                - classmates played a certain character from that page and it was very enjoyable(:

• In notebook- under assignment #19 for our warm up grid, while being in your literature circle groups we asked each other "If you could have dinner with any deceased person who would it be and why?
• Literature Circle discussion with your group
• If you had a graphic novel, this was your day to bring and read/discuss an outside source
• Also in notebook-

               - assignment #23 is library handouts, don't forget to put in those papers that we got from last Friday in your notebook!
               - assignment #24 titled Literature Circle Prep 5 which is due next LC

• Don't forget to read as many books as you can so that we can win a point for our house!

October 4th, 2012

We had a fairly easy day today...

• SSR 
• For about 20 minutes
• LC Discussion
• We learned about our Literature Circle group's favorite movie and why it was their favorite
• We also talked within our group about our books and plots, characters, etc.
• If you were part of a graphic novel group, today you discussed about your book. NEXT TIME you should be discussing an outside source. 
• Group Share Out
• Our lovely Jada was chosen to share what her group members were discussing. She talked about how the character V in the graphic novel (V for Vendetta), could kill 86 people within the span of a few years. 

Announcements:

NORTH HOUSE: Be sure to meet up at the library at 8AM!!

October 2, 2012

• SSR
• For about 20 minutes we got to read while Mrs. Ortega checked to see if we had our LA County Library Card.
• Writers Feedback
• Today we got to look at Jada's lovely essay about the journey of her reading experience and gave her good things about her essay and pointers on how to improve it.
• Workshop
• Today we wrote in our journals for about 30 minutes. While we were writing, Mrs. Ortega checked our journals to make sure they were all up to date and that the formatting was alright.  For example, the page numbers were right, we had our worksheets attatched, etc. 
• Progress Reports
• At the end of the block we were handed our Progress Reports for the month of September. Remember, a lot of factors go into your grades, It's not just core!

Special Announcements:

"By the end of next weeks workshop, you should be ready to submit in a peer review. this means you have a reasonably finished draft!"

"Today is the beginning of our house finished books competition. Go see Ortega right away when you finish your SSR book. "

October 1, 2012

• SSR 
• For 20 minutes
• Exposition Quickwrite
• Prompt: What about the exposition of your test have you found most interesting? Why? What is still confusing to you? How can this problem be rectified?
• Discuss Quickwrite amongst group members
• Membership Grid/ Warm Up
• Discussed and wrote down what group members did over the weekend. Their high of the weekend and their low of the weekend
• Literature Circle Discussion
• Discussed the Literature Circle novels amongst the group members today. If you had a graphic novel, you were supposed to bring an outside source that all of your group members read today.
• Questions/Announcements
• Mariah and Marissa discussed our nominees for the Push Up House Competition and future tacos coming our way. 

Special Announcements:

• Today is the beginning of our house finished books competition. Go see Ortega right away when you finish your SSR book. 
• Don't forget your LA Library County Card tomorrow!

September 27, 2012

Terrible Things

• an allegory about the holocaust in a children's story format

Lit. Circles Discussion
Debrief (Looking Ahead)

• I believe this was where she had us do assignment #16 which was Lit. Circle Prep for Discussion 2. She suggested using notes or using the old roles from Frake's lit circles.

No SSR

Reminders and Announcements:

1. Library Card due October 1
2. Don't read your lit book on 1st or 3 rd rotation for SSR. It's only acceptable on 2nd rotation.

Well that's all for this week which brings a close to my scribing duties. Have a wonderful year and good luck on the Senior Project!

September 26, 2012

SSR
Writing Workshop*
Writing feedback**

*Just before we bagan writing workshop, Ortage read something called "Shitty First Drafts". It was about how no writer writes a good first draf. Overall, perfection takes time. Do word vomit first and then refine it.

** We used Darlene's peice for commendations and recommendations.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. Lit. Circle reading is due tomorrow.
2. You cannot use Lit. Circle book for SSR House Competion.

Septmeber 24, 2012

SSR
Announcements:

• We'll be working on class bulletin so bring baby pictures tomorrow if you want one posted.
• Interview questions due next Mon. (Blog 6)
• Writing workshop is Wed. You need to have your prompt chosen by then
• Ortega needs helpers to decorate her walls; community service hours or extra credit will be offered.

Terrible Things

• We weren't able to get to this because Nick kept torturing stuffed animals.

Lit. Circle

• Chose books
• Went over calendar dates that will be used for discussion
• 9/27
• 10/1
• 10/4
• 10/8
• 10/11
• 10/15
• 10/18
• 10/22
• 10/25
• 11/1

September 21, 2012

Today, all we did was highlight and margin note research articles. At the end of the block, we turned in our articles and updated working bibliography. Don't forget to have your LA County Library card by October 1st to receive full credit! It was great being your scribe for the week. Have a great rest of the year North House!

September 20, 2012

 This is what the schedule looked like for today:

• SSR
• A#12: LA County Library Resources
• A#13: Government Quickwrite
• Literary Circle Book Introductions 

A#12: LA County Library Resources (entered into comp. book)

Today we were assigned to purchase an LA County Library card. The reason why LA County Library is better is because they have an endless amount of quality research available. There are multiple locations of these particular libraries. Including Diamond Bar, West Covina, and Claremont. If you don't have a card, bring you parents if you are under 18 years of age. Make sure to sign up for a pin number and to give your email to receive updates on upcoming book deadlines and books on hold. If you already have a card, make sure you still remember your pin number and update your email address if your card has been idle for a while now. You should have your card by October 1st to receive an E. Your grade will lower one full grade for every week it is late. You have two weekends to deem a library card.

A#13: Government Quickwrite (entered into comp. book as well)

In our journals, we had to address the questions: What would it take to fight your own government? How would you fight? 

This was a very heavy question. During a class discussion about what we had written, we all pretty much agreed that we would like to believe that we would perform this heroic act and fight against our government. Although in reality, it is very scary to most of us and we would probably end up dodging the entire idea altogether unless it dragged us out of our houses or held our best friend hostage. We also came to the conclusion that one person couldn't change anything. It would take a large mass of people to pull this type of thing off. Which is true once you really think about it.

Literary Circle Book Introductions 

-In the Time of the Butterflies

-George Orwell 1984

-V for Vendetta

-Persepolis

*We will be picking our literature books on Monday, Sept. 24th through some sort of lottery process. Best luck to you all!

September 18, 2012

Today we got right into Poetry Out Loud recitations. No SSR for the day. And nobody picked “Fire and Ice”! Everyone got up there and gave it their all. I have to say that the presentations were very enjoyable despite the thick air. We got through it as a class and applauded for everyone who went up there even if they weren’t able to finish their poem. “Something is better than nothing.” I also noticed that everyone included some sort of voice, physical appearance, articulation, and dramatic appropriateness to their poem. Even the quieter people in the class. Overall, everyone put in effort and took a stab at it. Good job today!

September 17, 2012.

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Hey North House! This is Darlene Dela Rosa and I am the blogger for this week. Here’s what the schedule looked like today, Sept. 17.

·      SSR

·      POL Rehearsal

·      Workshop

POL Rehearsal

We were given 15 minutes to practice our poems with a partner. We were told to tell our partners if they have spinach in their teeth. What I mean by that is basically laying out the truth with their performance. If it was perfect then we were allowed to say so. If it wasn’t, then we had to tell them what they needed to work on. Whether it was their voice and articulation or dramatic appropriateness, we had to be blunt. This exercise was designed to help your partner improve their grade tomorrow.

Workshop

At 8:45, we began our timed writing/writing workshop. We were given 30 minutes to write a personal narrative based on a topic of our choice. We wrote our piece in our composition books as A#10 Writing Workshop.

After our time was up, Austin was chosen to get feedback from the class regarding her essay. This feedback was also logged in our composition books as A#11 Writing Feedback. Some feedback the class came up with include:

·      Bobbie said that the rhetorical questions and sarcasm added character to her essay.

·      Emma said that variation of sentence length lacked and would enhance her essay. She also said that she had a good usage of vocabulary. There were big words in the essay, but the message that Austin was trying to convey came across without confusing her readers.

·      Mrs. Ortega described that Austin’s voice was very evident in her essay. In other words, her essay had voice.

REMINDER: Tomorrow is the official Poetry Out Loud recitation, which will be held during 2^nd block in Ortega’s room. “Fire and Ice” is strictly prohibited if you haven’t caught that already.  Make sure to bring a printed copy of your chosen poem to receive full credit tomorrow. This will make it easier to check your accuracy, which counts for 8 points of your overall Poetry Out Loud grade.

Fourth Rotation 9/14

Today La Rousa was still filling in for Ortega.
Today we basically went over our research in class and La Rousa came around to check it off. We also had our Working Bibliography papers checked. Nothing much today.

Some exciting news for our house... We WON against South house!! Congrats on our first house win!

Third Rotation 9/13

Last rotation Ortega had informed us that she would be missing the rest of the week because her grandma had passed away.
In her place was Ms. La Rousa.

Today's AGENDA
-SSR
As usual.
-POL A#8 Scoring Guide
The score guide was an outline of the categories where the contestants are scored. We looked over it and saw where the deductions in their scores come from so that we could practice.
-Practice Scoring a Video
We watched 2 videos of past winners of Poetry Out Loud. We had to score their performance as if we were the judges of the competition.
-Practice with a Partner
Whoever you sit next to in class is your partner. You had to practice your poetry out loud poem and apply the rubric for how it will be scored in an actual competition.
-A#9 Timed Writing
During assignment #9 we were supposed to apply the ABC's and D's lesson she had taught us last rotation. Like last time we had 20 minutes to write about how we ended up with our senior topics.

Don''t forget to bring you research tomorrow and a printed and revised version of your working bibliography with added summaries.

Second Rotation 9/11

AGENDA
-SSR
Nothing new.
-Talk Show Interview
This was actually a very entertaining interview with Emma Watson and David Letterman to give us an exaple of what to do and what not to do in an interview. Keep in mind we are not David Letterman.
-Bad Interview Example
We never actually watched the bad interview example because of the terrible internet.
-Interview Practice Team
We practiced interviewing our partner with sample questions that were open ended.
-Share Out
-POL Rehearsal
We never made it here because class was over before this point.

First Rotation 9/10

This is a little late, but here is the agenda for Monday September 10.

 AGENDA
-SSR
Today you had to bring your SSR book. We read in class for about 20 minutes. Very similar to Edwards last year, so nothing new.
-Notebook Setup
We set up our notebooks so we can officially start class with Ortega.
-Intro to timed Writing
-Reading Autobiography
-ABC's (D's) of timed writing
This is supposed to help us with our timed writing in class. Fist, ASSES the problem; BRAINSTORM ideas; CHOOSE your order; and D.