March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Monday, October 11, 2010

ENGLISH 7
Completed spelling pre-test Unit 8.

Handed out new grammar packet. #5. Due Thursday, along with mugshot week 6.

Finished fable presentations.

Began reading unit on Legends, Folk Tales and Myths. In literature textbooks, Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuatl on p. 776. Handouts.  Will finish in class on Tuesday.

HW: Weds Planner check
Thurs: Grammar packet #5, Mugweek #6
Fri: Spell exercises Unit 8, p. 45, 1-20 and post-test

ENGLISH 8
 
QW: When I finally got out of the cage, the world had changed.

Grammar card lists returned. Make sure in final deck that you check spellings and correctly identify specifically what kind of verb, noun, pronoun, etc. Your sentences will make a difference in what part of speech it is. Remember, words can be different parts of speech depending on how they are used in a sentence.

Persuasion skits. Presentations continue.


HW: Thurs: Spelling Unit 8 and exercises, 1-20, p. 45
Fri:  Choice of biography book. (Show me ahead of time if question. Has to be at least 200 pages.)

  
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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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