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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

ENGLISH 7
Wed, Mar 2, 2016
"Lemon Brown" and "Ribbons" questions on theme. Checked in homework.
Writing assignment: The theme of a story is its central message or insight.
Prompt: Write an essay in which you compare and contrast the themes of “Ribbons” and “The Treasure of Lemon Brown.” Be sure that you state the theme of each story clearly and use examples and quotes (direct passages/evidence) from the stories to support your answer.
Finish rough draft for Thursday. We will check them in then and work on the final drafts. Use the Venn Diagram to organize your thoughts. Start today.
HW: Thurs-- Rough draft on themes in two stories. Mugs.
Friday: Spelling Unit 16. Proofreading exercises, p. 80. (NOT p.79) And quiz.
Monday: Final Draft the compare/contrast essay
ENGLISH 8
Weds, Mar 2, 2016
Kristallnacht handout briefly discussed. The seeds of anti-Semitism. How it spread. How nations/people reacted.  Relate to The Book Thief.  Did you annotate it? What is the main point or points of the article.
What happened in 79, 1346 and 1942?
Chat-Presentations -- Who helped in WWII?
Rescuers, like the Hubermanns in The Book Thief, are those, who at great personal risk, actively helped members of persecuted groups, primarily Jews, during the Holocaust in defiance of Third Reich policy. They were ordinary people who became extraordinary people because they acted with their own belief system while living in an immoral society. Rescuers were peasants, and nannies, aristocrats and clergy, bakers, doctors, social workers, storekeepers, police officers, diplomats and grandmothers.
Stories of rescuers, link here. Hopefully, you all found this site
What to expect in Part 7
HW: Thurs: Complete questions and reading Part 7
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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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