Makayla’s English Blog

 Today in class we watched part of a film called “On The Way To School”. The film is about 4 children who live in different parts of the world. Throughout the film we learn about each child’s life and the journey that they take to pursue their education. As we watch the film, we have to complete a small packet along with it. Today we completed the first 2 pages, and tomorrow we will do the last two.

 Today in class we presented our presentations on our assigned countries. My group and I did our presentation on Thailand. In the presentation, we had to talk about the culture, traditions, education system, and more of Thailand. I learned a lot of new things about the country and enjoyed doing the assignment on it. 

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 Today’s lesson in Mar. Rease’s class was led by Ms. Cook again. We worked in our groups from yesterday to further analyze the story “Ambush.” We were given roles in our groups to further explore the story. I was the Travel Tracer. My job was to describe the setting of an important event from beginning to end. It was a bit challenging since the story pretty much takes place in one spot, but I think I worked hard to use different descriptive words for the setting. 

Today in Mr. Rease’s class was very informative. Our lesson was lead by student teacher Ms. Cook, and we first started with a bell ringer. The bell ringer today was to tell whether or not killing in the army was justifiable. This bell ringer led us into our work period, in which we read a short story called “Ambush.” We then worked in groups to further use evidence from the story to determine whether or not killing in the army is or is not justifiable. 

 I believe that we should have a free day because most of us as students work hard all throughout the week. Many students have jobs, homework assignments, makeup assignments, and more. I think that sometimes students are deserving of a break to catch up on things, or just to simply rest. Additionally, whatever we miss on this day, we can speed up our pace of learning and learn the topic another day, while not taking up too much time on it.