March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Friday, April 1, 2011


 ENGLISH 7

Completed Spelling Unit 28, exercises and quiz
Returned 1st response, characterization. Models

Theme, day 2

HW: Tues: 2nd response, Character Chart

ENGLISH 8
Handed in “About me” work and writer's notebooks for a "random" check. Should have 14 entries by today.

The start of National Poetry Month.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words-- Robert Frost.
Favorite Poems Project. Personal interpretations from Americans who contributed to the project at the Favorite Poem Project. Poetry is universal. Poetry is choice. Poetry is individual. Watch. Listen.

Poems: We Real Cool, The Sloth, Out Out, Minstrel Man, I Am Nobody.

Now find yours. Pick out a poem. Write it down. (Don't cut & paste). Look up words you don't understand. Read it three times. Think about what it means to you. Be prepared to read it in class & explain how it speaks to you.

Look on the web, in the library, my books, books at home. Find one that has meaning for you. Websites: Academy of American Poets, Poetry 180. Be prepared to share in class next week.

Work time. Look over poetry books in classroom, go to websites and printout poems, work on DEJs for Civil War novel.


HW Monday: Your favorite poem. Be prepared to present it, say what it means and why you like it. 
Tuesday: April 5. Finish Civil War Book. Hand in last set of 4 DEJs on historical aspects of novel.
Weds.: April 13. 100-point project due. Are you working on yours?


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About Me

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!

"Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction"

The digital revolution and teens, from the New York Times--
"Sean's favorite medium is video games...he sometimes wishes that his parents would force him to quit playing and study..."