Class Scribe - Rachel Safdié

           Hello! Today we started with the Do Now. It was about the movies and books that we have already read and/or seen. We had to compare the difference about those two different things, and of course the similarities about them. Here is a video of the Do Now:








            After the Do Now, we started to talk and/or think about the theme/subject of the books and movies. Ms. V. asked a question. She wanted us to discuss in groups what are/is the theme(s) and/or subject(s)of a book or a movie. In this case we are talking about the book that we just finished to read. We are going to make a screenplay tomorow about/of the city of Ember, and that scene that we will do will have to have and object/theme, that is very or/and the most important thing or/and object of the book (The City of Ember).

         After that discussion there was a gallery walk.  The gallery walk was about finding the right them and/or subject for a book, story, movie, or even a scene, and we are going to make our best in our scenes so than we can make sure that the people know what our theme and/or subject was without telling them. Well, that's it for today!

Class Scribe - Victor Vieira

Agenda

-  Do Now
- Vocab Connections
- Share Out: Symbols + Film
- Brainstorm: Scenes for Film
- Adaption
- Reading Time
- Speed Date

We started with the Do Now like every other day. The Do Now was to write a sentence using each of the vocabulary words listed. The words were Impudence, Abundance, Dispersing, Catastrophe, Fretful, Refugee, Infinitely, Expanse, Relentless, Accomplice. You had to write a sentence using all these words. One of my favorite sentences was, There was a catastrophe when Victor's house set on fire and he died. By Marcos.

Ms. V was telling the class how to do the Vocab Connections

Then the class moved on to the Vocab connections the class sat in a circle outside then class then the word was chosen it was catastrophe.  Then one person moved in and put a word and said why the word connected to catastrophe. Then the cycle kept on going on until no one had any words.

Then the class moved on to Brainstorm: Scenes for Film, the class had to brainstorm about the movie scene they are going to re-create from City of Ember.  The ideas for scenes could be a theme or symbol. Then the class chose the scene that they thought had the theme or symbol. Then they find the page or pages and the chapter. Then they have to talk to their partner. Then Ms. V told us to create a google doc hen you have to put it in the shared folder with her. And their you write your ideas for themes and symbols. Then the class took out their books and started to read. 

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• Do Now
• Tableaux
• Symbolism in City of Ember
• Intro to Film Scene
• Reading Time   

We first started with our Do Now that is making connection's to from the quote to the world then infer what lesson might be teaching the reader about the world. After the time was  up on working on our Do Now's we talked about what we did in them with person sitting next the to you. The one's who did not have a person sitting next to them moved in other desk's to talk to the person who were sitting on these desk's.

Then we went into Talbeoux that is making images for the vocab, but of course we first made the group's. Make and plan and make our images and then present them.  After Tableoux the we went to Symbolism in the City of Ember that is making a blogpost and compare the Symbolism of the city of Ember.  After the time was up on making the blogpost we started reading on the book of the City of Ember for the rest of the class. 

                             

                       Here is Lupe working on here blogpost and things and concentrating a lot. 

Homework:

Finish the blogpost on comparing Symbolism of the City of Ember if you didn't finish it in class. 

Class Scribe - Lupe

Agenda
- Do Now
- Vocab Tableaux
- Revisit questions                                                                               Lupe acting as class scribe
- Reading Time
- Speed Dating

Lately, in class, we have been doing the same things, first Do Now, then vocab, then revisiting questions, then reading time, and last but not least, speed dating. This has been our routine lately and it has been working out pretty well.

Tableaux

We started with the Do Now. It was a reading about dams. Lately we have been concentrating in dams and trying to connect dams to the book City of Ember. We are investigating different dams, and today we studied the dam in China, its called China's Three Gorges Dam. We have started to notice that dams are controversial, and that it isn't always the best idea to make  a dam.

After that, we started doing tableaux. We each had 2 words and had to make 2 Tableaux. We started discussing what to do and then started trying different posses and trying different expresions to fit the word(s).  Everyone worked really well and tryed really hard. Before trying to guess, we all took out our vocab sheet just to have an idea of what words we had to guess from. Everyone did an amazing job, they had  alot of fun, and they all made the funniest and wierdest poses. 

Then, we read. Afterwards, we discussed our ideas by speed dating.

Class Scribe Post by Victoria

Agenda: 

• Do Now
• Intro to Dystopia
• Video
• RDG
• Intro to City of Ember
• Quote Chalk Talk
• Prediction
• Reading time

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First we did our do now's. We opened up Quizlet in the City of Ember 1 and learned some new words that we will find in the book. After that we shared with the person sitting next to us what dystopia and Utopia. We watched the beginning of Wall.E and discussed why was that scene related to dystopia. We watched another scene of Wall.E and discussed what were some other elements that were dystopians in that piece. Sophie thought that one negative effect was that they were too antisocial even though they were all together. One Dysthopean Novel that was famous was the Hunger Games because it looked pretty cool but it really wasn't that cool. We are now moving on to Quote chalk talk  that is when we write thoughts of a quote that is here in the table . People had many ideas to share. We had many different quotes and many different ideas about some quotes that are in the book. One quote I saw was: " The main thing to do is to pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful." and it got many good questions and responses to the questions asked. We stared(★) questions that we thought were good questions. 

 
We got our City of Ember books and we are going to start reading the first part. After the map and the contents there was the introduction.  We shared some questions that we had about the book and the introduction. For the last 5 minutes of class we read a little bit of the fist chapter. The class was dismissed.