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Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

ENGLISH 7  
Poetry work, in literature textbooks, p. 129. Poems: Fable by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thumbprint by Eve Merriam and If by Rudyard Kipling.
Read and discussed together. Began working on literature packet on the poetry readings. Combines grammar, vocabulary and literary terms. Will have class time on Wednesday to complete.
 
HW: Weds: Planner check Thurs Mugshots 20/21, grammar packet Fri: Spelling, Unit 20, exercises p. 97, 1-20 and Post-test ; review quiz on mug shot 20/21
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ENGLISH 8  
Finished listening to Section 2; pgs. 50-64. 
Completed quick quiz on Section 2.
Worked on Section 2 OMS questions, especially Hemingway's use of imagery.  Will discuss and hand in on Wednesday.


HW: Mon Jan 31 Women’s Author book choice. 
A few other writers to consider:  Arundhati Roy    Jhumpa Lahiri   Gish Jen                                        Jayne Anne Phillips   Willa Cather    Flannery O’Connor   Zadie Smith
Esmeralda  Santiago   Sara Gruen    Kate Atkinson    Anna Quindlen


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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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