October 28

October 28

Mr. Janz was in today. It was a PLC day with shortened classes.

HUMANITIES 8

Today was "Game Day". Student game design teams kept one member with their game to facilitate game play with other students and answer the teachers questions to assess the team's game. Throughout the class, teams switched out their representative so that everyone had the opportunity to play other teams games.

ENGLISH 10

Class started with chapter reviews for Grandmother Gives Me Some Advice, Tears of a Clown, and Halloween. We discussed whether grandmother was right about Roger and why Roger started treating Arnold with respect.

We then discussed 'what is trauma?', examples of how people deal with trauma, and examples of trauma that Junior has ended so far. Types of trauma brought up included emotional, physical, psychological, and spiritual. Ways people deal with trauma included substance abuse, ignoring it / depression, professional help or help from loved ones, personality changes (such as aggression), and risky lifestyle choices (like BASE jumping or multiple sex partners).

Students received a new worksheet: "Literary Log - Coping with Trauma". The worksheet asks to find examples of Junior's traumatic events, a quote (with page number) showing Junior's reaction to the event, and the student's analysis of why he reacted as he does.

Students were given time to read the two next chapters: Slouching Toward Thanksgiving and My Sister Sends Me an E-mail. Students were asked to complete the first side of the worksheet.