Debora's English blog

 Today I finished up the assignment we did yesterday. This assignment is a presentation. I don't like it because we have to get in front of the whole class. But my role in this group was easy. When I get home I have to practice what I am going to say on Friday. We also did discions questions like 10 of them. At first when I looked at the questions I thought I was not going to finish because it seemed a lot and I also didn't want to do it at home. I did end up finishing to work.

 Today we read the article The Rockpile. My group did popcorn reading. I'm not good at reading out loud. But the popcorn reading helps me a bit. I don't like popcorn reading all the time. I had to find vocabulary words. Over all the story was kinda sad.

 In the beginning of class we finish the work from Friday. We also started and use a new app that is called a mural. Mural is like a jamboard. Today we were in groups and had a role for the assignment. I got Vocabulary Enricher where I look at the 10 words that stand out to me. Those 10 words I will type in mural.

When class started we played some Kahoot for sometime before we did the work for today. I wish I could have been in the top three because the top three would have a pass of a work assignment. After the Kahoot we started our assignment for today that was writing a paragraph about how young teens get affected by social media. It was kinda hard at first when I had to come on with the thesis statement but the rest was easy.

Today he finished our assignment were the had to explain our evidence. I think the assignment was easy since we just got to explain the evidence. I think this is going to help me a lot when doing an easy because it gives me more ideas for sentence. Now I don't got to worry about what other sentence I have to make I can just explain the evidence. But I also think It will be hard if I the evidence does not have much detail.

 Today was had a lesson about explaining the evidence of an argument. To helps us understand more we looked over a murder case. This case helped us understand why we have to explain the evidence. If we don't then we won't win the case in our favor. Then we did an assignment where we read to find the evidence and explain it.

 During the fall break  I slept late and slept more which helped my body. Also my family got an old car which most of the time was  cleaning the car.  I also spend time with my brother's cat. I went shopping and spent a lot of money. To be honest this fall break help me body. I also became more lazy. But I did enjoy it and loved that it started getting cold.

 Today we've read an article of the pros and cons of the pledge of allegiance. As class we wrote some pros and some cons of the pledge. Like why do some students don't stand and why you should stand. Then we read the article and we answer some questions while reading. We will also learned about freedom and liberty.

 Today we read an article about "Three -year bachelor's degrees could save families thousands- but are students ready?". We had to identify three claims and also write the opposing claim. It was difficult at first but then I finally understood it. Identifying claims I think is the easy way to help me understand an article. I will use this in the future if I do not know the theme or the purpose of an article. Moreover I appreciate not having to write 16 claims like the other classes. 

 Today we took notes of evidence. How to pick a strong side of evidence. To support evidence there are experience, observation  and reading. One of these trees or two of these will support an evidence where you could use it for your argument writing. We also did a worksheet to help us with it.

 Today we wrote vocabulary words and did sentences for each 15 of them. It was a lot but I learn some new words that I have not heard of. Some of them I do not know how to pronouns. Tonight I am going to study them. We have a quiz this week of the vocab. I am planning to pass the test. This quiz will bring my grade up a little.  I think in the future I will use these words as expressions in writing in essays.

 Today we created claims of values. We had to come up with 5 or more criteria for our list for each claim. We decide if it was valuable or not. Which also opened my mind more because these claims were also like decisions I would have to make in the future. This type of writing will help me with which claim has more criteria. I did enjoy coming up with criteria on some of them about on other it did kinda of stress me out.

Today we finished the assignment yesterday.  We still were creating claims in short argumentative writing. This assignment is helping me understand both parties for or against. I also talked to my classmate about it and I heard different views about it. In the future I will create claims from both sides and see which side is supported, strong, and understandable. This way I can make my argument writing strong. I liked how today was a chill day which is makes my mood good about today.