March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Monday, December 6, 2010
ENGLISH 7
Spelling pretest Unit 16.
New grammar packet handed out on Tuesday.

The Giver: Review comfort object organizer
Discuss Chapters 3 and 4

HW: Tues: Go over vocabulary Set 1. For any 10 of the words you want, find the vocabulary word in the chapter. Write down the exact passage where you found it. Now write your own sentence.
Begin reading Chapters 5 and 6

Weds: Planner check
Thurs: Mugshot week 14 and grammar packet #11
Fri: Spelling test and exercises, Unit 16, 1-20, p. 79

ENGLISH 8
Completed surprise quiz on Chapter 3.

Opening paragraph:   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.

QW: Now, think about how this might apply to the town you live in or how it applies to our school. How is Twin Hills like a place separate and distinct from other schools? What distinguishes it? What is the Twin Hills personality? Does news travel fast? Does gossip trap you and define you? How do you combat gossip?

Got guided reading handouts for Chapter 4. Read Chapter 4 and complete questions for Tuesday.


HW: Tues: Read and Qs for Ch. 4
 Weds: Read Chapter 5. Questions due Friday. Bring in work for 1st response.
 Thurs: 12/09: First response due. Can work on Ch. 5 questions in class on Thursday.
 Fri: 12/10: Read and Chapter 5 questions due


 Mon: 12/13: Read chapter 6 (finish book) and questions due.
 Tues: 12/14: Second response due






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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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