Omar's English Blog

 Today we read 2 different passages about college. After we did that we read and analyzed the passages. 

 Today we did some Vocabulary words and exersizes because Mr.Rease wasn't here. 

 Today in class we read 2 Poems about Driverless cars. One passage was about how Drivers think that Technology does have its limit and shouldn't have driverless cars. The other Author things that the Automobile Industry should make a big change and start the bigger production of driverless cars. 

 Today in class we had to write a 40 line poem. We had to write a poem about something that meant a lot to us. I wrote my poem about African Americans and what we have been through and what we are defined as today. In the poem I expressed that we shouldn't let our history define us but should let it inspire everyone today.

 Today in class we learned and watched videos about a famous acrobat. Then we watched a video on his dad or grandpa falling off the tight rope and dying. then after that we read a poem about an author that compares an Author to an Acrobat.

 Today in class we started to watch the actual movie Fences and answer 10 discussion questions

 Today we finished reading the book and found out that Troy got a kid but Rose had to take care of the baby. Later on in the story Troy died and his family went to his funeral.

 what we did in class we did the same thing from yesterday but he went over the assignment to confirm if it was an actual fact or claim. than we talked about how troy got another woman pregnant and told rose  

 We continue to read more of the fences by August Wilson and finished Act 1 of Scene 1/Scene 2 and tell the conflict of the characters and provided textual evidence 

 We continue to read more of the fences by August Wilson and finished Act 1 of Scene 1. Than finshed annotated/ summarizing the story some more. 

 We started on reading the fences by August Wilson and started on annotaton

 Today in class, we did a benchmark for the whole class period 

 Today in class we annotated the story called Nothing gold can stay Robert frost and had to do questions and vocabulary words and literacy devices, summary and ask questions about the story.

 Today in class we did an article name Birches by Robert Frost and annotated and as we were doing that we were answering questions from the following article we read

Today in class we read a story called Out Out by Robert Frost and we had to annotate and had to do a work sheet 

 Today other groups presenting their projects and afterwards we doing vocabulary words and Excerise 1 , 3 & 4.

 Today in class we presented our Ambush Circle group project. My part was summarizing about the passage and find key points. After the groups presented we split up and took a quiz on Ambush

 We worked in groups with the story Ambush. We had our own task to do but we worked together. With the question DO you think there is a thing such as a good kill?