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Thursday, October 1, 2015

ENGLISH 7
Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015
Topic sentence and paragraph work continues. Handout and notebooks.


First, write three separate paragraphs. Pick three to write out of the following five topic sentences. Make sure your paragraph addresses the points in the topic sentences.


1. Carrots have a very cheerful effect on rabbits.
2. Imagine life without a family.
3. Without movies, where would Josh Hutcherson be?
4. What if we all lived in a movie, which one would it be?
5. Deep fried and covered in salt, fries are a hamburger’s best friend.


HW: 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!


ENGLISH 8
Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015
Handed in mystery novel final project. WAS IT STAPLED AHEAD OF TIME?


QW:  “Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.” Do you agree? Why or why not? Explain your answer from the point of view of an 8th grader, ahem, you!


Demons Spelling Project-- handout and discuss


How to find a good biography and use the Sonoma County Library online. Card applications for you if you don’t have one.


HW: Friday: Personal Demons List, in notebooks, pencil is okay.
Library card application, filled out and signed Or your library card.

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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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