Revision by Rebecca L. 8D

Sometimes when Mr. Armstrong ask us question, to make sure that we understand, people would be eager to answer the question in my eyes. Today, Mr. Armstrong asked us question to test us if we've been doing well at taking notes without him being in the class. As he gave out question, the questions were always answered by various students and eventually getting them right. Some students made up jokes or made mistakes that were really funny making the class spirit rise. But as always I thought his questions was always challenging and it is still challenging for me, but when other students answer the question and the teacher elaborating the answer made me understand more about this American Revolution and have fun because of all the jokes that had happened in between study time.

We went through many topics during class. First was about why and what the Indians were fighting with either with the British or with the Americans. There were several answers and a joke (The Thinker) when a Native American came out and we had to guess what the picture was about. We learned that the Native Americans were fighting to save their homeland and they didn't care if the Americans were independent or not.

We had several map questions that we didn't need to take notes on. I felt as if he was testing if we are reading the details he is giving out or just finding the keyword and take notes or if we could guess well by reading the map and noticing what was going on. I thought it was a great question that we should think about it more than just taking notes than to just read.

We learned more and more by Mr. Armstrong elaborating our answers for the questions that we gave and made us understand more about how the Revolution went on. I thought I learned a lot today and it would be in my mind till we finish our Social Studies Final. I was thankful of Mr. Armstrong for helping us and let our emotion out in the class room to lift our spirits.

The quiz with many questions...

There was no class on Tuesday. Today, most of us entered the classroom sore, from playing all of our instruments from the class before, some of us just took the finals, right before. We were all scared of what was happening next. Unfortunately, because Mr. Armstrong was not here, we could not do the traditional hand-shaking when we first entered the classroom. Everyone sat in their original seating assignment from what I could see. Luckily, our substitute, Mr. Campbell gave us an extra 15 minutes to do some extra cramming before we took the quiz. Many people turned to their neighbors and quizzed each other on something they thought would show up on the test. Finally, the moments came. Mr. Campbell handed out the part of the test where we would ahve to write our answers to everybody, back-sided so that everyone would see the test at the same time. He told us to add questions 21 - 25 and cross out question 3. Then, Mr. Campbell handed out the part of the test that had the questions in it, back-sided once again. Finally, everybody turned the test and got started. We had 30 minutes to finish the quiz. The questions on that quiz were all based on our key terms and main ideas. The questions ranged from the winter at valley forge all the way to John Paul Jones. We all let go of our anxiety by writing evrything we knew about that subject. Finally, when we had only about 5 more minutes until we had to hand in our quizzes, almost everyone was double - checking their work to see if they made any mitakes. Quiz time was over. But, luckiyl Mr. Campbell surprised us by letting us have another 3 minutes to modify or delete our answers with the help of our textbooks. I think that almost everyone raised their grades higher by getting this extra time to edit our quizzes. Finally, we really had to turn in our tests. Mr. Campbell worked his way from my left all the way to the right, collecting everybody's tests. We had a few minutes so everyone discussed about the questions on the test and how hard they were. Class finally ended and everyone made their way out of the classroom, trying to forget everythign about the quiz.

-Esther Y. 8A

Diving head first into new info-by Jeong Ah K. 8A

Today, when we got into class, we felt a scorching blast of heat. Nobody was, of course, happy about this, because we had just completed perhaps the most embarrassing fashion show of our lives with wearable art from our art project. What made things worse was the fact that we had just climbed up a whole lot of stairs.
However, one of the biggest problems was that due to forgetfulness, people forgot their seating arrangement and decided to plop their lazy selves into any chair they thought would be nice (Mr. Armstrong, you should have made little hardcopy charts like the other teachers do). So we had to shuffle around a bit, and after that, we had a little awkwardness with Mr. Campbell, but he managed to get us back on track with our Immersions for weeks twelve and thirteen. Of course there were a few people that preferred to waste their time on certain sites, but Mr. Campbell got most of it straightened out.
There were a few problems with the videos though. Apparently, no one really brought the box with headsets so a lot of people had to use their own. It was a very cluttered and confusing day for all of us.
We didn’t have a general lesson but we all kind of learned that…
a) With freedom comes responsibility
b) Never underestimate any teacher…even if it’s the substitute
c) If a seating chart is given, try to remember the people around you
This time the kudos with the digitized candy (drum roll please) goes to Esther Y. and Se June H. for their work in class. Esther (though she did not enjoy the work) did her part as class representative and tried to get everyone in order. She handed out the laptops and aside from giving Dean laptop number 21 instead of 12 (she was reading the numbers upside down), she did a good job. Se June was extremely focused on his immersion and seemed to get a lot accomplished today (I’m not being biased Mr. Armstrong, he did seemed focused on his monitor and notes).
Just a few quick reminders for 8A: remember you have your quiz on Wednesday and make sure you finish your immersion. An immersion should be handwritten, with the main ideas as well, and the sources. Au revoir!

-by Jeong Ah k.