Thor's First Blog

God help me.

Ben said to me that he'd pick me to do the blog during P.E, explaining that he wanted me to be funny.

Apparently, I'm good at that.

So, here I am, writing a blog for the class to see and most likely ridicule. Yay.

Here's your agenda, if you don't have it:

AGENDA

BLOG - corrections - RJ ✔

Intro to Writer's Workshop

The Writing Process

HW - Have a great weekend.

The group of children and children-at-heart that we call "Ms. Nakada's 4th Period" started by doing stuff about The Outsiders, as usual. People read their summaries as usual, if they even did them in the first place. 

Here's the summaries that were put on the board:

2.3  Pony wakes up at the church and Johnny heads out to get supplies. They pass the next few days smoking, reading Gone With The Wind, and playing cards. Dally shows up with news and a letter from Soda. Cherry is a spy!

2.4  Johnny wants to turn himself in but Dally disagrees. When they get back to the church, it's on fire. Pony and Johnny rush to save the kids, and the roof collapses. At the hospital we learn Pony's okay, but Johnny's back is broken. Pony realizes Darry does love him.

Others read the summaries which other people thought were good to the whole class, which can be done by putting in really sophisticated and complicated words that everyone seems to be astonished by. Then, Ms. Nakada asked us to pile our Reading Journals as well as take out our Class Notebooks, even though that's really inconvenient since my Class Notebook and Reading Journal are all mashed into one Staples composition book.

Now we're copying the introduction to the sequel of the Workshop saga into our Class Notes. From the creator of Reader's Workshop, comes Writer's Workshop. It involves:

1. pre-writing (inspiration and planning)
2. drafting (writing in prose & poetry when needed)
3. revising (reading your draft and adding/cutting things)
4. editing (making the draft great with punctuation, grammar, and commas)
5. publishing (showing your masterpiece to the world)

I thought I'd be exempt from this, but Ms. Nakada gave me an 8.5x11" blank sheet of paper. Another sarcastic yay.

I tried my best and didn't succeed, but I have the weekend to do it, so meh.

Anyways, I have nothing else to write about, so here's a recipe for chocolate chip cookies:

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons hot water
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Cream together the butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Dissolve baking soda in hot water. Add to batter along with salt. Stir in flour, chocolate chips, and nuts. Drop by large spoonfuls onto ungreased pans.
3. Bake for about 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until edges are nicely browned.