This week we did a lot of work on our novel study, Black Like Me written by John Howard Griffin. On Monday we were given our books and our reader response journals. We read the Prologue and answered questions about the stanza from Langston Hughes’s poem that J.H.G included in the start of his book.
After school the volleyball teams, from grades 5-8, made their way over to the Kingston Gospel Temple for volleyball practice. We focused on controlling the direction of the ball, and getting the ball high into the air. Practice was also fun this week! The start of Wednesday’s volleyball practice was spent on a volleyball skills rotation. Each station was labeled along with a beautiful diagram, skillfully drawn by Mr. Schleger.
Also this week, the members of this year’s school play was split into three smaller groups, and were given the first two pages of the play “Little Shop of Horrors”. The groups were given 10 minutes to look over the pages, and come up with blocking for the scene. After the 10 minutes the groups reconvened for the performances!
Thursday, during language arts class, we began our first “Mirror Task” in which we brainstormed ideas of how John Howard Griffin would have been feeling when he saw himself as a black man in the mirror for the first time and drew our representation of how he would look based on our reading from the novel. For the afternoon, we had a special presentation from Ms. Singh on the history and importance of the Indian cultural festival- DIVALI. We got to watch a video, light candles, and try special Indian treats!
Then, the majority of Thursday afternoon’s play practice was spent discussing the musical side of this year’s play. Little Shop of Horrors is a musical, and four of Lakeshore’s musically talented students will make up the four-piece band!
On Friday the Green house team was awarded a dress down day, and they all showed up looking very snazzy. Friday afternoon the grade 7/8s were in art class. They started with a small quiz, and spent the rest of the class experimenting with the calligraphy pens, and charcoal!
By: Claire Schleger
