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Thursday, August 27, 2015

ENGLISH 7
Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015
QW: Read advice from last year’s 7th graders. Reacted in your notebooks. What do you think you will do? Shared a few.

Finished sharing Portrait Poems. And the overhead doc camera worked, so we could see them all! Terrific.

Handed in Diagnostic Reading to class basket.
DEMONSTRATION speech. Handout.

HW: Fri: Spelling test and homework, Unit 1. Exercises 1-20 on p. 15. Then, a quiz on all the words in Unit 1.
Syllabus quiz


ENGLISH 8
Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015
QW: “As soon as I arrived, I sensed something out of place.” Think mystery. Our first novel. Think of it as the start of a story. Write  for at least five minutes. Share a few.

One writing task. Read advice from last year’s kids. Shared and then created a classroom “rule” or idea to make this class work well. On post-it, supplied by me, on wall tonight for parents.

Graded benchmarks. This means you will share with one person, giving them VIEWING access only. I will explain….Open up Google docs and your Facebook ESSAY. Share your essay with the person who is going to read it. (I will tell  you who.)  Do not give them edit function, just view. You, the evaluator, should now have access to that essay. You use the printed rubric to look over and “grade” their work. Be sure to include kind and constructive comments. Look at the prompt.
When done, you can show them the rubric. Hand in to me.

HW: Fri: Syllabus quiz and parent signature
Mon: 8/31: Mystery Novel

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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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