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Friday, September 25, 2015

ENGLISH 7
Friday, Sept. 25, 2015
  • Spelling Unit 5, check exercises and quiz
  • Novel check in: In your notebooks, write five words to describe your main character. Write one topic sentence about him or her that would be the beginning of a character study paragraph.  
  • Notebooks for some notes--requirements for turning in a paper.
Margot  character paragraph work for All Summer In A Day:
  • Describe Margot's character, his/her personality and behavior. Use at least two quotes.
  • What role does she play in the story? What is her relationship to the other characters? How do her actions move or advance the plot of the story?
  • Describe any change that she undergoes during the course of the story. What does she learn?
  • Now, write one paragraph about Margot, a character study about her personality and behavior in the story, All Summer In a Day.
  • Make sure to use some direct passages from the story that support what you have to say about her. Direct passages need page numbers with them.
HW:: Work on a rough draft one-paragraph character study of Margot in All Summer In A Day. You will have time in class to work on it on Monday.


ENGLISH 8
Friday, Sept. 25, 2015
Last novel check in.
On a separate piece of paper, write what happened in your novel. How was the crime solved, if there was a crime? Did the ending satisfy your expectations?  How did your main character change during the course of the novel? How was the story a mystery? One paragraph only. Make sure your sentences flow together NICELY, and that there is a clear topic sentence.
Finish the Speckled Band movie. 5th-36:47; 6th- 29
Writer's Conferences begin.

HW: Tues : Speckled Band assignment.
Thurs 10/01: Mystery Novel final assignment.

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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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