Sakeenah's English Blog

 Monday 2/13/23 We wrote a pledge. The pledge was what do you promise to the African-American Community. We saw a short video on Maya Angelou. We then read her poem The Black Family Pledge. We annotated and analysed the poem. Tuesday 2/14/23 Ms. Cook taught us. It was valentine's day. We read the poem a dream deferred. We analysed the poem. Then, we wrote a poem for valentine's day about our dream's. Wednesday 2/15/23 Mr. Rease was Absent. We worked on our projects the entire day. Thursday 2/16/23 Today we learned about narrative writing. A narrative is a story. We read the poem Incident. We then wrote a short essay. The essay was us writing in our diary as the narrator, which was the little boy. Friday 2/17/23 No School

 Monday 2/6/23 We did Vocabulary. We searched up the definitions. We did the 2 activities assigned. We also put whether it was adj., noun, or verb. We turned it in at the end of class. Tuesday 2/7/23 We did a thought cluster. We learned about 3 different point of view. We learned about Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates's different thoughts on owning materialistic things. We each chose the philosopher we agreed with. We made cluster based of of the philosopher we chose. Wednesday 2/8/23 We learned about Emily Dickinson. We broke down one of her quotes. We watch 3 different trailers based on her. We continued to try and break down each quote. All 20 quotes from Emily Dickinson were broken down by analysis, theme, conflict, and topic. Thursday 2/9/23 We continued the same work from yesterday. We watched a documentary on Emily Dickinson. She had a bunch of different love interests. She only published 7 poems. They later found over a thousand poems and published them. Friday 2/10/23 Today