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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

ENGLISH 7
In groups, finished creating the perfect community. Presented yours.
In preparation for The Giver, the class-created utopias were incredible. Who wouldn't want to live there.

 Here are some examples: Fuzzy Lump Community, where everything is shared and free; Happy Lane, where everyone is nice and smiles and people only remember the good times; Fairytopia, where people don't think about the past and everyone has the same amount of power.

Got books! The Giver. Name inside.

 HW:   Thurs: Mugshot and Grammar Packet #10. Read Chapter 1, The Giver. Expect a quiz or at the very least, a class discussion.
          Fri: Spelling exercises and test, Unit 15, 1-20, p.75
ENGLISH 8
The Pearl response assignments. Handed out. Discussed.First response due Thurs., 12/09

Checked in Chapter 1 worksheet and broke into groups to discuss questions in a "Grand Conversation" style How we talk about literature in group setting.
Group 1: Qs 1-7       Group 2: Qs 8-14
Group 3: Qs 15-21   Group 4: Qs 22-28
Group 5: Qs 29-35

After discussed assigned questions, using the Grand Conversation strategy, predicted what you think will happen in the next few chapters of The Pearl. Also, came up with a title for Chapter 1 that reflects something about what happened, the characters, or the setting, or all three.

HW: Thurs: Pearl Vocabulary worksheet, Chapter 1. Start working on response ideas.
         Vocabulary worksheet for Chapter 1
    Fri. 12/03: Read Chapter 2 and complete questions

  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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