March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

ENGLISH 7
Weds., Sept. 30, 2015
Planner check
Turned in FD with RD attached/stapled, Margot character study
More on topic sentences. Notebooks out.

HW: Thursday: Mugs next week!
FRIDAY: Spelling Unit 6, a review of units  1-5. Know all 50 words, but tested on 20. The words listed on p.34. Homework--proofreading exercises on pgs. 34, 35, 36, 37. Just write the words, spelled correctly.
Finish Novel! Last reading check.
Coming up for final project:
  • Tuesday., Oct. 6--Character paragraph: 10 points—
  • Thurs Oct 8--Plot line with direct passages: 10 points—
  • Friday Oct 9 --Illustration of one key scene: 10 points—
  • Mon Oct 12--Put it all together in one final project—50 points

ENGLISH 8
Weds., Sept. 30, 2015
Writer's conferences and work time.

HW: Thurs: Mystery Novel Project. no late passes.
Stapled ahead of time. Please.
BIOGRAPHY UNIT: On Thursday, we will look for biographies, together, on the Web, during class. So, don’t worry yet!
If you want to look on your own, go to the Sonoma County Library and search under general keyword, Biography. Look through the thousands of titles. Or refine your search by category.
Also, go to Barnes and Noble website, use the general search word Biography and look at the drop down menu on your left, and search by area of interest.
Check out goodreads.com and search young adult biography, there as well as on Amazon.

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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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