BY: Kailyn, Makayla P, and Noah
Monday 4/22
We had a rough draft of our research paper due on this day. We all got partners and we peer edited each others papers. Then we planned our nexts steps moving on in this paper. We then moved onto Mr. Gornto’s room. We went over the book that we are reading, The Giver. We have to annotate and then discuss what we read for the day. In Mrs. Bruvik’s room, we had a substitute teacher. We just had a productive silent study. In other classes they did periodic puns because we were currently working on our periodic table project.
– Kailyn
Tuesday 4/23
In Mr. Gornto’s classroom, we got to work on anything that had to do with The Giver. We were assigned vocabulary words for the book. Some students worked on that while others read more of the story and annotated. We also had some time to work on a log response. The question for Log #5 was, “Why isn’t there pain in Jonas’ community? Do you think this is a good idea?” After this, we had time to work on corrections for our spotlight essays. The essay was due the next day, so this time was very useful. For the hour block, we got to choose which humanities classroom we wanted to be in. If students wanted to work on their research essays, they worked in Mr. Greenberg’s room. The rest of us worked on assignments related to The Giver in Mr. Gornto’s room. These three periods were very useful and productive. In science we had to finish up our periodic table boxes. Everybody helped each other to get the job done.
-Noah
Wednesday 4/24
On Wednesday we put on the finishing touches to our Spotlight project essays and learned about Ethos, Logos and Pathos. In Mr. Gorntos class we continued with the discussions and reading of the giver. Then, during our Quest science periods, we finished up any periodic table elements that weren’t done. After that, we set up the periodic table in the gym for SEE on Thursday.
-Makayla
Thursday 4/25
On thursday we had something called SEE. SEE stands for Science and Engineering Expo. Every grade from 5th-12th makes different science projects. It is for half the day and each class has a period to walk around and another period to present their projects. There were many interesting projects. Some people did escape rooms, while others presented research they did on eye color. Our jumbo periodic table was set up against the wall in one of the gyms. We all had the chance to show off our elements. We did not have a lot of class time this day. Each section had one class of quest. This period was a silent quest work period. Once SEE was over, we all had to clean up our projects. After clean-up, we went on to our next class.
-Kailyn and Noah
Friday 4/26
On Friday we had a guided study hall in the quest period with Mr. Gornto. In the Quest period with Mr. Greenberg we reviewed our packet about Ethos, Logos, and Pathos which are all Greek words. Ethos means character, logos means logic, and pathos means emotion. In our Quest Science blocks, we did an engineering challenge about cup stacking, resilience, and persistence. The challenge pushed everyone to their limits by giving us a specific amount of cups to build the highest tower. We only had a specific amount of minutes to do so. It made us all learn team building skills and persistence to keep trying after your tower fell.
-Makayla
Proofread by: Tori, Dinah, Makayla , Katherine