10/25-10/29

This week we played a very fun game called Balderdash to enhance our understanding of vocabulary words from "Of mice and Men." This game is played by five people going up to the front of the room in which only one of them have the actual definition of whatever vocab word they are desribing. The other four people have a card telling them to make up a definition for the word. For example; four people have a minute to make up definitions for words like confided, beligerantly, and bewildered. The winner is the person that made up a definition but also got the most votes and the one who wins gets to pick an item out of "The Mystery Bag of Fun." It was a great game to have fun and learn our vocab at the same time.

Week of 10/17-10/22

This week we started reading "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. We all guessed that this book had something to do with farms, and we were all right, sort of. Its not about men who have a farm. It's about men who work on different farms. The main characters are two men named Lennie and George. Their relationship does make the story all the more interesting. We also learned that John Steinbeck is an artist. He paints pictures with his words. For example, the first two pages of "Of Mice and Men" were all about the place where Lennie and George were, and what Lennie and George looked like. The place was so clear in my head. I see why John Steinbeck is such a famous author.

Picture with caption week of 10/11-10/17

After our unit test this week, we made predictions on what we thought the book Of Mice and Men was about. We looked at different covers of the book and changed our thoughts a bit when we saw a new cover.

-Joey Resis

Week of 10/4-10/8

On Monday, the class got into groups and we started an activity, the groups were chosen and were given a vocabulary word from the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, and each group had to do a skit on the meaning of the vocabulary word, so we practiced our skits. On Tuesday it was a shortened period because we had a late start, but we started off reading our independent reading books for twenty minutes (which we do every Tuesday and Thursday). After that, we showed our skits to the class. On Wednesday the class took a survey on each of the learning styles, and everyone had to raise their hands to show Ms. Nickow who had each major, minor, and negligible style preference for each of the learning styles. Although we took a while to do this, we still got through it, then we started reading the short story "Marigolds" by Eugenia W. Collier. On Thursday we first read our independent reading books, then we finished the short story "Marigolds" by Eugenia W. Collier, and we had a class discussion on it. On Friday, we played a review game for all the short stories we read to prepare for the unit test this Tuesday.

Picture for Week of 10/4 - 10/8

On Wednesday, October 6th, English102P2 read "Marigolds" by Euginia W. Collier. We all rotated reading, and after we finished the short story, we discussed the innocence and compassion of the main character, Lizabeth.

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I know that it is not my week to blog but I would just like to say that the reading journal link does not work.

Week sept/27- oct/1 and Picture for September 27 - October 1

This week we read the "The Lottery," a popular story from 1948. The basic plot is that there's a town with a tradition. This tradition involves holding a lottery every year. The winner of the lottery is stoned to death in the hope that the sacrifice will bring a good harvest. However, this is not entirely revealed until the end of the story, but is given in small hints known as foreshadowing. Through the whole story though, everyone appears to have no bad intentions, but they all turn on the poor winner of this lottery. This is a form of situational irony (explained in the previous entry). In class we held our own lottery, except the winner got rock candy. =( I didn't win.



Contributed by Ben:
This week we watched 2 movies about the short story lottery.  The lottery is a sad story about a ritual/religion concept.  In the lottery there was a village with only a few people every year there was a lottery to sacrifice someone for the harvest.  Whoever got the slip of paper with a black dot on it was stoned to death.