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Monday, September 22, 2014

ENGLISH 7
Monday, Sept. 22, 2014


Corrected mugshot test. Hand out new mugs on Tuesday
Spelling pretest. Unit 5.
Plot with A Boy And A Man. Powerpoint. Take notes.

Worktime, Two Sides of Me, due tomorrow.
Finish or re-do Novel Progress Check.
* On a separate piece of paper, write down the title of your book. The author. The year it was published. What page you are on. What you think will happen next. Use complete sentences.
HW: Tues: Two Sides of Me
Weds: Planner Check
Thurs: Mug week 5
Fri: Spelling week 5, exercises p. 30, 1-20 and write misspelled word five times each.

ENGLISH 8
Monday, Sept. 22, 2014
Ten minutes group worktime on grammar from Friday. Work is in your class basket. After time is up, whatever you finished please return to class basket.
Next: A perfectly wonderful character paragraph. Get your body paragraph correct and the rest of the essay  is so easy to do!
Short review with handouts of basic paragraph, highlighting topic sentences.
Powerpoint--How to find information about a character. Take notes.
We will continue to work on rough drafts on Tuesday in class, with  peer edits. Final draft will be due at end of class on Tuesday.

*Assignment: write a one-paragraph character study on the villain in The Tell-Tale Heart. You can start working on it now and get a lot done. Rough draft due on Tuesday.

Use character map/chart and textbook  The Tell-Tale Heart to find quotes and back up ideas, with direct passages (quotes) and page numbers. Evidence to support your argument--as always
HW: Tues: RD Character paragraph of the villain, or narrator in The TTH. Use worksheet.
Weds: Reading “Raymond’s Run” in literature textbooks.

Fri: Finish mystery novel. Last progress check. Bring books to class.

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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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