March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Friday, November 20, 2015

HAVE A FABULOUS THANKSGIVING WEEK.

DON’T FORGET TO READ, LAUGH, HANG OUT WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

ENGLISH 7
Friday Nov. 20, 2015
Spelling 13. Check in exercises. (EC if did)
Spelling competition. Wow. You totally tied. Really.
Have a great Thanksgiving week. Be ready to take Seedfolks final test and project on your return.

ENGLISH 8
Friday, Nov 20, 2015
QW: A different kind of writing, in your notebooks
  1. Create one list -- what you are thankful or grateful for.
  2. Create a second list --  a list of your own personal needs
  3. Create a third list -- a list of your own personal wants.
  4. Now, pretend you are someone else. Pretend you live in a foreign country, that your family is poor, that girls are not allowed to go to school past the age of 7, and that your village is under siege by warring factions.  What then are you grateful for. What are your needs? What are your wants?
Fill at least one page in your notebooks, NOT skipping every other line and NOT writing in huge letters, respond to the following:
Are people’s needs really much different? Why might people’s needs be different?

Your ideas will be shared in a list for the 8th grade so everyone can see it. In connection with reading John Steinbeck’s The Pearl, we will explore the se ideas.
Share a few more turkey essays.

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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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