March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Monday, December 7, 2009

ENGLISH 7

Received and filed lots of papers. Posted updated grades. Check it out, on back bulletin board.

Completed spelling unit 16 pretest.

Presented work on Sindbad's last last last very last, voyage. Five points EC for good presentation.

HW: Tues: Mug 12
Weds: Planner Check
Fri: Spell test and exercises, Unit 16, p. 79, 1-24.

ENGLISH 8

I read your writer's notebooks and was humbled by so many entries that showed compassion, enthusiasm and creativity. Keep it going!

Received and filed lots of papers. Posted updated grades. Check it out, on back bulletin board.

Took pop quiz on Chapter 3 of The Pearl. (Keeping up is vital.)

Discussed beginning of Chapter 3, and how it is like (is it?) our own school, or our town:

A town is a thing like a colonial animal. A town has a nervous system and a head and shoulders and feet. A town is a thing separate from all other towns, so that there are no two towns alike. And a town has a whole emotion. How news travels through a town is a mystery not easily to be solved. News seems to move faster than small boys can scramble and dart to tell it, faster than women can call it over the fences.

We will finish discussing Chapter 3 as well as 4 on Tuesday.

HW: Tues: Read and Qs for Ch. 4
• Weds. Read Chapter 5. Questions due Friday
• Thurs 12/10: First response due.
• Fri: 12/11: Read and Chapter 5 questions due
• Mon: 12/14: Read chapter 6 (finish book) and questions due.
• Tues: 12/15: Second response due
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Annie

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About Me

Sebastopol, CA
After many years as a newspaper reporter and writer, a job that I was lucky enough to love, I got my English teaching credential, hoping to pass on to kids how to find their unique voice and clearly communicate what they think and feel. Public school educated in Philadelphia, college in New York City (Barnard College), transferred to and graduated from UC Berkeley in English and received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. Yay, my son, my student in 8th grade, is now a Cal alumni, too, a 2017 graduate with a degree in computer science, now working at Google (You Tube) as a product manager. William Faulkner is one of my favorite writers, as well as Anne Lamott, Langston Hughes and many of the nighttime, satirical comedy shows. On my top bookshelf sit Nobel Prize winning writers Toni Morrison and Orhan Pamuk, along with friends who have won Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, who started writing in junior high or in writing groups in Sonoma County. Go public education in California!

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