March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

DON'T FORGET TO DRESS FOR HALLOWEEN!


ENGLISH 7
Planners checked. Six-week count handed in.
Graded yesterday's test.
Listened to: Virgil
Worktime


HW: Thurs: Seedfolks worksheets due on Gonzalo, Leona, Sam and Virgil.
No mugs this week.
Fri: Spelling Unit 10. Exercises 1-20, p. 52. Write misspelled word five times each.





ENGLISH 8
QW:  “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” --from The Diary of Anne Frank, the Dutch teen whose writing was published after her death in a Nazi concentration camp. Think about this. For you, for the person you are reading. Write--whatever comes to mind.


Counted entries and handed in Notebooks.
Worktime. IOA essays. Biographies.  Paragraph practice. Quietly and on your own.
HW: Thurs: Final Draft IOA essay, stapled ahead with RD and peer edit and self-evaluation
Fri: Last set of four DEJ entries due. Finish your biography



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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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