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Thursday, December 2, 2010

ENGLISH 7

Mugshot and Grammar Packet #10 checked in.

Utopias! Let's share ours.
 (Utopia, noun - an ideal place or state.  Dystopia, noun -- a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression,disease, and overcrowding; an imaginary place where everything is as bad as it can be.) Let's see whether the world of The Giver is a dystopia or a utopia.

 The Giver. Chapter 1. First, filled in the short answer questions. Complete sentences, as always. Then we talk! On Friday, along with Chapter 2.

Handed out Giver Vocabulary worksheets Chapters 1-4. 
HW: Fri: Spelling exercises and test, Unit 15, 1-20, p.75
Read Chapter 2 of The Giver.  Be ready for discussion and/or quiz.


English 8

QW: What is the hardest thing in life you’ve ever had to do? Write for 5 minutes. Complete sentences. If you can’t think of something you had to do, think of the hardest thing you might have to do.

Pearl Vocabulary worksheet, Chapter 1. Drop it in the basket.

Got worksheet for Chapter 2.


In the style of a Grand Conversation, began to present findings on Chapter 1. 
HW:   Fri. 12/03: Read Chapter 2 and complete questions
           Start working on response ideas.
       
  Coming up: Mon: 12/6: Read Chapter 3 and complete questions
   Tues: 12/07: Read chapter 4 and complete questions
    Thurs: 12/09 First Response Due. Can work on Chapter 5 questions in class on Thursday.
     Fri: 12/10: Read and complete Chapter 5 questions
   
Mon: 12/13: Read Chapter 6 (finish book) and questions due
    Tues: 12/14: Second response due 



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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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