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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

ENGLISH 7

Rough drafts of personal narrative essay shared with peers for PQP evaluation. Praise. Question. Polish. 
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Handed out list of transition words. To help with final draft. 
 HW: Weds: Planner Check
Thurs: Mugshot week 8 and Grammar Packet #7
Fri: Spelling exercises p. 53, 1-20 and test, Unit 10
Final draft, personal narrative essay


ENGLISH 8
Biography 1st response handed in.
 
Quick grammar lesson, on run-on sentences and comma splices.
 
QW: If your parents told you that your best friend was a bad influence and that you were no longer allowed to hang out together, how would you feel? Would you do what they said? Write for at least 5 minutes. Use proper grammar. Watch for run-on sentences and comma splices. And all the other parts of speech you know about!
 
New grammar packet #5. Due Friday. On clauses, simple, compound and complex sentences. Can work with a partner. 
 
Discussed IOA Essay Assignment. Influences Obstacles and Accomplishments, in your life. A personal narrative essay. 
Brainstorm or outline on topic due Wednesday.
HW: Weds: Topic and brainstorm for IOA essay
        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: 11/03: 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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