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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

ENGLISH 7
Planners checked. 
Absent last Friday, made up mugshot tests.
In literature textbooks, read and discuss personal narratives: Bicycle Braking Blues: p. 96 and The Boxer's Heart, p. 311. Begin reading, The Barrio Boy, p.523.
HW:
Thurs: Mugshot week 8 and Grammar Packet #7
Fri: Spelling exercises p. 53, 1-20 and test, Unit 10
Final draft, personal narrative essay. Peer PQP edit, assignment sheet and rough draft attached.
ENGLISH 8
Graded grammar tests. (2nd period only)Topic and brainstorm for IOA essay on desks for check-in. Discuss.

Returned significant impact paragraphs.
Look over comments. You might likely use part of this for your IOA essay. Remember, you are still following essay paragraph structure, especially two commentaries (Cms) for every one concrete detail. (Cd). Details make the story yours. 

In your writing, avoid vagueness and generalities that can apply to anyone. 
Not: "She was my best friend because she was always there for me." 
But, a specific example instead. 
For  instance: "When I broke up with my boyfriend, my best friend Emily chose not to go out with our other friends for an ice cream birthday party. Instead, she came over my house and consoled me. Emily is always there for me."

Thurs: Spelling, Unit 10, exercises, 1-20, p. 53 and post-test
        Fri: Rough draft, IOA essay; Grammar packet
Tues. 11/02: Biography 2nd response. Two-thirds through book.
Weds: Final draft, IOA essay.
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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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