Week+Sixteen

Another two hour delay!! Im almost getting more used to //this// schedual. Anyway our class is normal length thusly not affected. Today we made pages for our film reviews and linked them to the Film Reviews page and group member's commented each other's work. Hope everybody had a good weekend. We're getting to the bottom of the countdown for Christmas break!
 * __Monday, December 17th__**

Mr Masson is back! Again! He told us about how he heard "The Sound of Silence" playing on the radio before he went under for the operation and thought of this class. Then we talked about what were going to do for the next project. __Bowling for Columbine__ is next on our movie list and the plan is to start it tomorrow. To kick off the movie we each recieved a sheet of questions and had to write about one of the them for ten minutes and after we each said which question we had chosen. Mr Masson said to hang on to these writings because we'll be using them later. The last activity was to separate into groups and write down five school, local, national, and global issues. Alright this is OFFICIALLY my last entry. Good luck Shana! Byeeee ~Bri
 * __Tuesday, December 18th__**

Today the class learned the content and structure of an editorial. We then went to the computer lab to finish our film reviews. Those who finished began thinking about and researching a topic for their editorials. A typed rough draft of our editorial is due the day after break...Jan. 2nd.
 * __Wednesday, December 19th__**

__**Thursday, December 20th**__ We read an editorial from The New York Times called An Idea Whose Time Should Be Past. This was about the unfair sentencing of first-time drug offenders. We then answered the questions: What is the issue, what is the call to action, who is the audience. We also answered if we agreed or disagreed with the editorial. Then we went back to the computer lab to continue with our editorials.

So since Shana wasn't here I'll fill this in. Last day before break! We sorta planned to go to the disco tech, but most people just stayed in the room. Mr Masson said he was "Too tired to do anything fun." Though we did have a long winded investigation of who was going to be a bowling alley on Christmas Eve... We also had to write our thesis statements for our editorials and Mr. Masson told us to think about them over break and we will start them when we get back. Happy Holidays!
 * __Friday, December 21st__**