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Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Have a great four-day weekend!

 ENGLISH 7
Returned 4th response. Make sure you know what theme means and find it in your novel. It is not the same as plot or summary. Theme is the message (or messages) your novel conveys. This is a key point in your final novel booklet due next week, so take care with it.
Checked in and reviewed Grammar. 

Spelling exercises and test, Unit 31.

Worktime.  Final novel project.

HW: Thurs: 4/28 Teen Novel Final Project

ENGLISH 8

Finished Dead Poets.
Essay or short answer quiz to come next week.
Make sure you filled out questions on movie handout. Will be able to use these.

In Writer’s Notebooks, chose one of these to write about:

1. React to the movie. Did it make sense? How would you remake the movie for today?
                                  OR
2. Consider the following quote by Professor Keating. What do you think it means? Explain.

“I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things a different way. The world looks different up here…Just when you think you think you know something you have to look at it in another way…When you read, don’t just consider what the author thinks. You must consider what you think.”

Please return Civil War novels and poetry books
HW: Thurs 4/28 Writer’s Notebook Assignment

Make sure you are working on your writer's notebook assignment. Don't get behind because graduation speeches start next week.


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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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