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Friday, October 18, 2013

Happy Friday! HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND

 ENGLISH 7

Completed Spelling #8 exercises and test.

Presented Community Posters. Gallery walk and vote on MOnday.

Reviewed grammar worksheet on clauses, run-ons, etc.


ENGLISH 8

Completed Spelling Demons Test
Handed in Biography #1 DEJ.

QW: In notebooks: Summarize what you know about your biography subject. At least six complete sentences. Be sure to say who they are! What is their name?

Returned memory chain paragraph. Now to rewrite it, following the rules of paragraphs and topic sentences. In one paragraph:

The prompt: Describe a person who has had a significant impact on you. Include your relationship to that person and their impact (or influence) on you. The person can be a family member or a friend. This paragraph will be essay style. That means the support will be examples that follow the topic sentence. They may be those anecdotes or memories you came up with in the earlier paragraph or notes.  (Anecdote means a short account of a particular incident or event, often amusing often biographical.)

Remember: grabber, topic sentence, body sentences (at least 3) and a concluding sentence.

Working with partners on focus and thesis statements. Will finish in class on Monday.

HW: Monday: Rough Draft Significant Impact Paragraph
Tues: FD Significant Impact Paragraph
Fri: Two-thirds through biography. Second set of DEJs on influences, obstacles and accomplishments.
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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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