This week in Mrs. Nickows seccond period class, we read scenes out of the book A Raisin in the Sun. The picture to the left shows characters Ruth and Walter in the kitchen. Walter looks confused about the paper in his hand and Ruth looks worried.

Picture for week of 11/22-11/26

This week, being a short week, we spent most of our class time learning correct comma usage. The picture above speaks for itself on the importance of commas. The rest of the week we either played word riddle games or observed Thanksgiving weekend.

11/22-11/26

This week, we played a pretty cool game. Ms.Nickow gave each of us a note card with a picture on it, we had to find the other person with the same picture and describe ideas and thoughts related to the picture. This game taught us about abstract and concrete nouns. Abstract nouns are things you feel and concrete nouns are things you can touch and see. The next day, we learned about how commas are really important on the ACTs, we should know how to use them, and when to use them. In this short week we had a great time learning.

picture for week 11/1-11/5

This week we started to watch the 1992 movie version of "Of Mice and Men." The movie stars John Malkovich, as Lennie Small, and Gary Sinise, as George Milton.

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