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Friday, January 29, 2016

ENGLISH 7
Friday, Jan 29, 2016
Completed Vocab and text (The Giver) quizzes. Turned in homework on context sentences.  
Handed out new questions for expert fishbowl/oral presentations on Monday. You become the experts.
HW: Tues: Final, multiple choice test, The Giver. Not open book.

ENGLISH 8
Friday, Jan 29, 2016
Nearly finished movie (5th and 6th). Start the review. On the handouts from yesterday, rip out the last half page that says “Review must be two pages long.”

Over the weekend, look at a few reviews at Teen Ink.com.

HW: Mon: RD Review of The Pearl, the movie. FD in class
Get this mostly written so you sail through it on Monday. Does not have to be typed. Even if you did not finish the movie, you can write your review. Remember, reviewers usually do not reveal or spoil the endings. You can still comment on it.


Consider--What have you noticed that is the same in the movie and the book? What is different? Who are the new characters added in the movie? Was that a good idea or not? What are some of the new scenes/situations? Name a few.
What do you think of the actors playing the characters? Better? Worse? More fully fleshed out -- rounded? Or thin a stereotype?

Since we know Steinbeck wrote this to be a movie, what do you think he would have thought of the version you are seeing?


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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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