Jackie's First Blog

Agenda  : 
1. Poem
2. Current event quick write
3. Readers theater

Homework ;
Finish typing Random Autobiography, continue 1984 if you haven't finished.

The class begins like every other day with the poems  "We Wear the Mask", "We Real Cool", and "If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking."  The exhausted but hyperactive scholars are now hit with the news that there will be a new poem added to the list. Yay. Once that is done, Ty shares yesterday's blog, which was perfect, until Ms. Witham asked who his favorite person in the world was, and all of a sudden it happen to be me. I actually liked the way he was reading his blog in a very low voice but once he picked me he was able to say, "My best friend Jackie," with a nice and proud voice.

Ms. Witham shares with us and only us the Black Lives Matter paper and continues by sharing her current event quick write ( she gave a background story to when she was writing it, she made a connection with big brother from 1984 ). The class discussed the current news of the death of a black man apparently there are various versions of what happened. Some say that he was in a car reading; others say he was holding a gun. Nathan now says, "Books look like guns," because words are powerful.  We are now told to write our own current event quick write. During this time the athletes leave the class ( the class was unable to sing happy birthday to Sean).  After the quick write we continue with the readers theater we are only able to listen to two groups . The bell rings and the class rushed out the door excited to go to 6th period .