Rachel's Second Blog

Agenda
Blog/ RJ check
NaNoWriMo
Word Wars
HW: Complete novels/ make-up work

 Today there is a write-in. We are spending almost the whole period writing our novels, and some of us will be here for most of the day. Everyone is silently writing. 

     Ms. Nakada is reading us a pep talk from Marie Lu. Marie is giving us tips on how to keep going with our novel. It was a good pep talk. I can't believe we will all be done with our novels by the time I read this to the class.

     We didn't do a word war, but the bell rang. Bye!

Mayra's Second Blog

Agenda
Blog
NaNoWirMo
Word Wars
Homework
RJ 15.4 5-10 pages
RJ 15.1-15.4 due tomorrow

Well I'm doing the blog again. Today Ms. Nakada gave us the whole period to write our novels. She said we're going to have a few word wars too.  Some people are writing and others are working on class work. I got lucky today to write the blog because I didn't bring the alphasmart I'm using to write because I was scared of wetting it in the rain and breaking it or something. Is alpha smart one word or two?  Anyway, I got used to typing in an alpha smart, now the edges of the computer are making marks on my arms. It hurts. It didn't hurt with the alpha smart. Everyone's so quiet I feel like screaming just to make some noise, oh, someone moved a chair, that made noise. Alright, I guess I could take random photos of the class to occupy(is that how you spell it?I don't know) my time. UGH I forgot how to put photos in to this thing.

  I got Jennifer!!!!!!!

I got the middle of the class, but I was aiming for the whole class. It took me a while too. Omune smiling for the camera.

Ms. Nakada explained how we're going to get our word count into the NaNoWriMo program. It sounded complicated for the people who handwrite it. 

What to do, what to do.......
 My arms are hurting.

Word War!!!!!!
It's going to be a five minute word war. And there off!!!!
Does a word war count if your writing the blog? If it does I wrote...

Random words for word war....
Whoa I just got dizzy.. Pizza, blueberry, Pie day, photos, stapler, markers, backpack, crayloa, trash can, box, wipeys, Bitterblue(which is the name of the book I'm reading) Omune's computer is about to die. I thought it was a bomb because it was beeping.

I wrote 49 words, if you counted it and I got it wrong. Comment! You'll get a candy from Ms. Nakada.
 Whoa, this is the longest blog I've ever typed, then again it's only the second blog I've ever typed.
Ms. Nakada is taking word goal percentages now.
   Let's take a picture with Jennifer!!

Omune jumped in. 

Omune's face though LOL :D Erika wanted a photo too so...

Ms. Nakada told us to wrap up. GOOD BYE

 Today was a good day.

Arettzy's Second Blog

Agenda

BLOG

Shakespeare Companies

NaNoWriMo

Hw RJ 15.3 5-10 pages

Hey. Today we started off with collecting dues. I forgot mine so i will bring it tomorrow. Justin read the blog and he choose me. Thanks Justin! Well now the class got into their shakespeare companies. Each group has to read Act 2 scene ,  then summarize what happened, and give their group a grade. All I hear is people reading. The class is pretty loud. I heard someone sneeze real loud but I didn't see who it was. This blog is gonna be short since there isn't really anything going on. Jennifer asked if I was doing the Blog. She barely realized it and she's not that far away from me. Today I'm happy because yesterday Mexico played against New Zealand and won. That has nothing to do with class but I have nothing else to write. 

   Justin keeps on trying to mess up my spelling. Saad just walked into the classroom. I turned back and noticed a new kid. Ms. Nakada passed out sheets for another write in on Friday. Now we are gonna hear a pep talk from Lev Grossman. His pep talk was like if you were trying to win the Hunger Games.  Ms. Nakada just told us that they added the word selfie to the dictionary. It's writing time so I'm going to write. We have like 20 minutes so I'll be back. We have 5 minutes so im gonna pack up. The bell rang so bye.

Justin's Second Blog

Agenda
Blog
NaNoWriMo

Hw:
Rj 15.2 5-10 pages

   
     Today I am doing the blog. Yay. It is the beginning of class and Ms. Nakada is reading a pep talk for  NaNoWriMo written by some guy that I don't know [Neil Gaiman]. After the pep talk we are told to start writing. The class is quiet and Ms. Nakada is collecting the class dues, which I don't have. I guess I will start writing now since there is nothing to talk about. Still quiet. Ms. Nakada is now asking for word counts. I'm still at 30% :(. I just remembered that today is a Tuesday so class is about to end. Bye.

Jennifer's Second Blog. ^___^

~Agenda~

• Blog
• Shakespeare Companies
• NaNoWriMo

~HomeWork~

• R. J 15.1 (5-10 pages)

        Well, I guess my turn to do the blog would come sooner or later. Right now we're reading A Midsummer Nights Dream. We are reading Act 1 Scene 2. We have to summarize what we read to make sure we understand it. So far what I understand is that there's  a play going on and people are arguing over what parts they're getting. We stopped reading and are now working on our novel. I'm stuck on what I should write next. My story is starting to get boring, I need a conflict. Well I'm gonna start writing so I guess this is good bye. BAI.

Vince's Second Blog

Agenda
Blog
Nanowrimo
RJ Check In

HW
Nanowrimo
60% by monday

         We start off writing our agenda and explaining our nanowrimo submissions. In December 2nd we turn in our typed or written novels. We also have to put a cover, summary, and about the author in our novels. At www.createspace.com, Ms.Nakada explained how you can publish your book in amazon and people can buy it. Ms. Nakada said that she sold over 500 books. The whole novel is worth 250 points.

         After Ms. Nakada explained everything about the nanowrimo submissions, we start working on our novels while Ms. Nakada checked reading journals. Sparky said 2 minute warning so we all start packing up so I guess this is GOODBYE.

Maryam's Second Blog

Agenda
BLOG
NaNoWriMo
Shakespeare Rhythms

Homework
RJ 14.3
5-10 pages
14.1-14.3 due tomorrow

     So, I just got picked to do the blog because we didn't pick one earlier during class. Fortunately, I don't have to do it for long because we only have about 10 minutes left of class. There were lots of tours today and Rose had to read the BLOG to the first group of tours. Ms. Nakada informed the parents on the tours of how the class works and everything- like she always does. We also read another pep talk on the NaNoWriMo website that compared writing novels to being in a relationship....strange yet very inspirational. Now, everyone is working on their novels/reading their AR books. The bell just rang (or rung whatever) so BYE!

Rose's Second Blog

Agenda
Blog
Shakespeare Companies
NaNoWriMo Check-in

HW
RJ 14.1
5-10 pgs

Today is Tuesday and we were given new seats. Now everyone is in a Shakespeare company. Each company has a "name" for itself and have to read the end of Act 1, Scene 1 (Helena's speech).

Each group has a paper and they are filling out with the following information:

Group Name

Members

Summary of Act 1,Scene 1
lines 232-257

Group Grade

Omune is talking behind me about how the play would be funny if someone dies at the end of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Now time for NaNoWriMo. I think Sparky is already to his word goal or at least very close. I don't know exactly what percent I'm at, but I think it's about 31%.

5 1/2 minutes...

1 minute...

the bell rang so bye!

Sparky's Second Blog

Agenda

Blog

NaNoWriMo

Elizabethan Language

HW: NaNoWriMo 40% by Tuesday

Thanks a lot, Erika. Do you know this is my best writing time?

Anyway, we are starting with the blog, after which we will spend some time working on our novels. Note, I am already at 70%.

Four minutes, so we have no time for anything but NaNoWriMo.

See you next time,

Sparky Shore

Erika's Second Bog

Agenda:
~Blog
~NanoWrimo Week 1

Homework:
Reading Journal 13.4
and 13.1-13.4 due tomorrow!
             
             Well, so I got chosen, yay. /.\ Anyways, guess who got hit by a frisbee?
             Ms. Nakada just told us to write down our first line from out book, the book title, and how many words we have on a slightly yellow piece of paper. Then Ms. Nakada started asking people for their usernames so she could add them. She's then telling people to change their word counts because some people have zeros.

            Now Sparky's talking about baseball and the world series, I think. We have 20% and the other class has 18% so I guess were winning. Some people are writing their novels but Ms. Nakada and other students are talking about jackets? I don't even know. It's so quiet all I could hear are the keyboards. We're going to have a word war for about four minutes. Ummm, I think that Omune won and Emma, Congrats.
             Well, I think we have to go byeee.

Rodolfo's Second BLOG

Agenda:
BLOG
NaNoWriMo Check-in
Grades/Collect Letters
Quiz Corrections

HW:
R.J. 13.3 5-10 pages

Wow, I had just plugged in my flashdrive into a laptop and then Emma calls me to do the BLOG. I knew I shouldn't have raised my hand. I should've kept my hand down and say that I did the BLOG. Well, who cares, it's just a few minutes of talking to the class.

Anyway, now everyone is writing their novels. It's so quiet in the classroom. All you can hear is people typing. There are about 24 days left until NaNoWriMo ends and then we'll have to wait yet another year until NaNoWriMo comes back. Ms. Nakada is now collecting our NaNoWriMo letters that we wrote to our parents and to our writing partner. I'm just sitting here.... changing the color of the words and listening to everyone type. MaKaiia, TURN YOUR PHONE OFF DURING CLASS! By the end of today, we should each be at around 20% of our goal.

Finally, we are actually getting some work done. Gracie and Emma are passing out our portfolios. Some assignments that we're adding to our list of assignments are: R.J. 11.1-11.4, R.J. 12.1-12.3, NaNo Letter, and NaNo first week. Sparky just said that we have about 2 and a half minutes left in class. I'm out. Bye.

Emma's Second Blog

Agenda:
BLOG
NanoWrimo Check-in
Elizabethan English

Homework:
RJ 13.2 5-10 pages
NaNo Letters!

Today Ms. Nakada started off by asking students for their usernames on the NanoWrimo website. She told us that we are in competition with one of her friends who is writing with a high school class.  We are ahead right now by 2%.:)  Now the class is getting laptops so they can begin to write their novels, so I better get to work!  We are supposed to be at 20% of our goal tomorrow.     

The Novel Writers

Now we are putting our computers away and getting ready for Shakespeare.  We are supposed to pass notes with somebody near us multiple times and talk about our novels, Shakespeare or other topics we can come up with.  Once we are finished passing notes, we are supposed to translate our sentences into Elizabethan English.  Some of the words we are translating include: YOU - THOU,  YOUR - THOU - THINE, WE - YE, and ME - THEE.  For any verbs, you add EST, 'ST, and ST.  Well, the bell just rang and I guess it's time for me to go.  Tuesdays are pretty short.         

Orson's Second Blog

Agenda

1. Blog
2. NaNoWriMo check in
3. Word wars/shakespeare companies

HW

• RJ 13.1: 5-10 pages

So here goes my second blog thanks to Ms. Nakada for saying I had nothing to do so I had to do the blog. Ms. Nakada says that I have to write about Friday as well as today, but it's not that hard because Friday we wrote the whole day. Our goal was to get about 1000-3000 if you were a normal person, so I guess I'm not normal because I wrote 4,500 words. I didn't stay though for Friday because I like writing without a lot of people around me, so I went home and wrote. Sebastian just told me to write about him, so here you go.

Now to today's agenda. We started off the day with getting our percentages from Ms. Nakada on our word counts for our novels. We then began to write for a while while Ms. Nakada talks to us about our word wars which is a contest to see who can write the most words in three minutes. Sparks says he isn't going to do the word war because he's bad under pressure to write, but I think he's just afraid he's going to lose. Kameron are you happy now that you are in my blog? God. Ms. Nakada now stopped us to talk to us about a dare machine and some extra encouragement from James Patterson. The dare machine is a simulator that gives a problem, solution, or idea to write about for your novel if you get stuck. You just press a button and gives one to you. Now we have started our word war and I can't tell who is winning, but I know Erica has not stopped typing to my left. Now it has ended and we are gonna see who the winner is. Quinn started off and said that he wrote 117, but I was right and Erica wrote 208 and won the war. Makaiia won for the hand written portion and wrote 80 words.

Now we are putting our lab tops away and taking out our english notebooks to write on page 24 about Shakespeare continued on A Midsummers. We had to write a modern sentence into Elizabethan. Here is the sentence: Why do you have a pumpkin in your locker? Curtis, Sparks, and Jesi all gave very Shakespeare like like sentences to translate the sentence. Now the bell has rang, so bye.