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Thursday, January 21, 2016

ENGLISH 7
Thursday Jan 21, 2016
Received individual grading sheets. Look it over. Highlight questions.
Settle any dispute with me tomorrow only.
Mugs--check in/ review
Finished drawings and work on Chapters 10 and 11.
New group questions for Chapter 12.
HW: Friday: Read through Chapter 15 and finish study guide questions. Expect a quiz.
AND 10 context sentences from vocabulary. Expect a quiz
ENGLISH 8
Thursday Jan 21, 2016
QW: Fate or the gods or good deeds? What determines the good or bad things that happen in life? Think of this in the context of Kino and The Pearl. Borrow your notebook back. (I will need it back!)

Review/grade yesterday's quiz on Chapters 5 and 6.
Review theme worksheet.
Got any of these? Theme: greed, family, wealth, good vs. evil, man and the natural world, power, religion, dreams/hopes/plans.
Write four of them as a theme statement, as on the worksheet.


What should you know for the test? Go over all your handouts. Have read the book! Make sure you understand and review the work we did at the beginning of the unit on Steinbeck--literary terms, cultural/historical background and John Steinbeck biography. If you read the book and kept up with notetaking, this will not be a difficult test.
If you need your notebooks to study, you can take them home and return to class (and me) on Friday.
HW: Fri: Test on The Pearl, either multiple choice or writing. It will be a surprise!
Whichever you don’t do on Friday, the other will be in class on Monday.
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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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