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Wednesday, October 13, 2010


First quarter ends Friday. Turn in unused late passes for credit by Monday.

 ENGLISH 7
Planner check-in sheet handed in. Worth 40 points.
 In portfolios, filed summary paragraphs, All Summer In A Day.
You must keep your returned work in your classroom portfolio so you will have access to it for your first semester portfolio or look at yourself. Please do not take it home. Thank you!
 Checked in handouts and discussed work on Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuatl, in literature textbook, p. 776.

HW: Thurs: Grammar packet #5, Mugweek #6
Fri: Spell exercises Unit 8, p. 45, 1-20 and post-test
 
ENGLISH 8
 Read comments on returned mystery novel projects and filed in classroom portfolio.
 Overall,  good work on first big English project. A few points to remember for next time:
o Read directions carefully to make sure you have completed each part of the project.
o Keep to essay paragraph structure. Make sure you are not writing a summary of your book when the “prompt” asks for something else. In this case, the assignment was to write a character study, or the study of a character or a character’s personality. Begin your topic sentence and paragraph with that character as the subject of your sentence.
o  Proper heading on paper.
o  No pencil. Final presentations on projects, especially long-term ones, matter.

Briefly discussed and handed in Memory Chain exercise.  Nearly finished persuasive skits.

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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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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