March 23 and on--

Check Google classroom-- Long distance learning begins!

Thursday, January 28, 2016

ENGLISH 7
Thurs Jan 28, 2016
QW: What did you think of the ending? Would you write it differently?
Mugshot check in and review.
Checked in The Giver reading guide questions through the end- Chapter 23. On desks please.
Finished last set of ?s
New questions and new group work for fishbowl/oral presentations on Friday.
HW: Friday: Context sentences for last set of vocabulary and a quiz on vocabulary and on the last part of novel
ENGLISH 8
Thurs Jan 28, 2016
Returned notebooks.  After reading it, return notebook score sheet to me for filing.
Essay rubric for peer-evaluations and sharing of Monday’s writing. Get a rubric and a paper to grade. Read the entire essay first. Take your time with this. Write on the paper as well as the rubric. Fill out form and return to class. 4th look over again with a view of the prompts!


Finishing watching The Pearl . If you were absent for some, do the best you can with what you have seen. You can come in at break and watch and catch up.
Movie terms and handouts.


HW: Fri: Start sketching out some of your ideas for a review. 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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About Me

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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