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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

ENGLISH 7

Comments on Writing Interest Surveys.
Shared: “I couldn’t stop laughing” paragraphs. And “I Am Poems.”
Began “popcorn” read Gary Soto’s short story, Seventh Grade, p. 115.



HW: Weds: Finish reading “Seventh Grade, p. 116. Planners and English writer’s notebook due. Five points for weekly planner check
Thurs: Back-to School Night for parents
Fri: Unit 1, Spelling exercises 1-20 on p.   15 and quiz. Write each misspelled words five times each.

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ENGLISH 8
Wrote one classroom “rule.” What we need to make ours a smooth, creative, industrious, fun English classroom. Keep advice in mind from last year’s 8th-graders. Be serious and fun. Paper provided. Ink only.
Quick mugshot pictures.
Peer evaluated last week’s benchmark essay about Facebook.
HW:Weds: English notebook.
Thurs: Back-to-school night for parents.

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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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