March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Monday, February 7, 2011

ENGLISH 7 
Spelling pretest

Pet Peeve Speeches.  Only did a few with so many absent. Everyone must absolutely be ready to go on Tuesday. Get some rest! Stay well, if you can.

New grammar packet on Tuesday
 
HW: Tues. Pet Peeve speeches continue. Make sure you're ready with Final draft.
Weds: Planner check
Thurs Mugs and grammar packet
Fri: Spelling exercises, p. 105, 1-20 and test
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ENGLISH 8

Returned portfolios. Many of you took some really good looks at yourself and wrote terrific essays. Looks like you are so ready for the next one! 
Portfolios need to be left in classroom for Open House "bragging rights."  

Handed out OMS extra credit essay assignment.
 Finished Hemingway figurative language presentations

Reviewed what to expect on the multiple choice test. Look over notes on Hemingway from video and introduction. Read over your answers to Section questions. Complete today's handout.

Began Old Man and the Sea movie. A classic, with Spencer Tracy. Weird, happy-go-lucky music, but otherwise, a good adaptation.
HW: Tues Feb 8 Multiple Choice/Short Answer test, Old Man and the Sea
Fri 2/11 Be ¾ thru book; 4 more DEJs due.
During February break. Finish book. Interview 3 women. 
Weds 2/23. Write up interviews. Begin essay. Final project due Fri 2/25, with all 10 DEJs


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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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