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Friday, October 16, 2015

ENGLISH 7
Friday Oct. 16, 2015
Completed Spelling exercises and review, Unit 8
Paragraphs/topic sentences. Finished.
Introduction to Seedfolks, a novel by Paul Fleischmann.
Handout, an anticipation guide. Filled out, then wrote one paragraph on the back, choosing one of the items you checked as your topic sentence. Three body sentences in the paragraph.

ENGLISH 8
Friday Oct. 16, 2015
✱Notebooks, Handout and directions.
Check in your annotated copy of news article and the paragraph summary. Absent on Thurs? Get an article from me.
Before  filmmakers and animators start a movie, they do sketch it out on a storyboard. Some background-- The storyboard process first developed by Walt Disney to plan cartoons like “The Three Little Pigs.” Check it out.
Pixar storyboarding process. Link  And photos


On your storyboard, make sure to have evidence from the article that adds meaning to the drawings. Put quotation marks around the important quotes. Get going on it. It is due on Monday. Read the directions.
HW: Mon: Storyboard on news article.
Thurs: Two-thirds through book and a check-in
Writer's Conferences to do: 4th- John,  Reanna, 5th-- Shantel, Sierra 6th-Lisbet, Danny, Liam


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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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