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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

ENGLISH 7
Weds., Feb 3, 2016
Completed The Giver final multiple choice tests.
If you have finished both Part 1 and Part 2, you can work on your portfolio. Make sure you got an assignment sheet, on the 7th grade table in back.


HW: Thurs: mugshots; Get final assignment for The Giver
Friday: In class finish up portfolio.

ENGLISH 8
Weds., Feb 3, 2016
Checked in & discuss response to questions on Flowers For Algernon.
“Algernon Independent” Writing Task:
Charlie makes this claim about intelligence: “In my mental blindness, I thought that it was somehow connected with the ability to read and write, and I was sure that if I could get those skills I would automatically have intelligence too.”
Writing task: Identify the most significant points where Charlie’s understanding of intelligence has evolved. Discuss both his emotional and intellectual growth along with his eventual regression. Support your claims with valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence from the text, including direct quotes and page numbers.
First. begin with an evidence chart.  Go online to get one to use. Or create your own, using that as an example.  Use any relevant notes you compiled while reading and answering the “text-dependent” response questions. Copy the chart to your googledocs folder and then use it.


Your evidence chart is due on Thursday. Not the writing, yet.
HW: Thurs: Evidence Chart, Flowers For Algernon.
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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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