March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Tuesday, November 26, 2013
ENGLISH 7


Wrote and performed idiom skits. Quite clever and good guesses.
So many of you brought food to share and cleaned up spectacularly. Thanks you!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES!  SEE YOU IN DECEMBER!
****Please return Seedfolks books: Zach, Aidan, Marcos*****


ENGLISH 8


QW: Thanksgiving Myths.  Common Myths about the "First Thanksgiving"
Read the myths. Answer questions about them. Share your findings/educated guesses.  
Myth-- a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events. A widely held but false belief or idea.
Like an urban legend-- a humorous or horrific story or piece of information circulated as though true, especially one purporting to involve someone vaguely related or known to the teller.


Team Spelling Bee.
                            
Happy Thanksgiving! See you next week. We start John Steinbeck’s The Pearl     

SHARE YOUR THANKSGIVING MYTHS, YOUR GRATITUDES AND THINGS AND PEOPLE YOU ARE THANKFUL FOR. ONLY SHARE THE TURKEY ESSAYS after DINNER!

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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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