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Thursday, August 29, 2013

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ENGLISH 7
Reviewed questions on Gary Soto’s 7th Grade, practicing how to talk about literature. .

Peer review of your paragraphs, using praise/question/polish form. Handed in to be returned on Friday so can finish final draft due next Wednesday.


If time, can work on spelling homework for tomorrow.

HW: Fri: Unit 1, Spelling exercises 1-20 on p. 15. Write each misspelled word from pretest five times each.We will also have a quiz on Unit 1 words. Every Friday.




ENGLISH 8


QW: “As soon as I arrived, I sensed something out of place.” Think mystery. Our first novel, coming up next week. Think of it as the start of a story. Wrote for at least five minutes. Shared a few.

Quiz on essay terms.

Essay work, Day 2.

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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!

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