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Friday, April 15, 2016

ENGLISH 7
Friday, April 15, 2016
Graded final test.
Work time, The Call of the Wild final project. Due Tuesday.

HW: Project due Tuesday, April 19
ENGLISH 8
Friday, April 15, 2016
“No matter what anyone tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
Day 1:    We begin watching Dead Poets Society: a film about an inspiring English teacher (!) in 1959 who challenges his students at an all-male prep school (think Hogwarts) to change their lives of conformity through poetry and literature. The film begins during an orientation gathering with a speech given by the stern Headmaster.
Main characters:
*Mr. Keating, English teacher
*Todd Anderson, lonely and painfully shy teenager
*Neil Perry,  an ambitious student, Todd’s roommate, but against his parent’s wishes, wants to be an actor
"We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are the noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.” -- Dead Poets Society

Please use handout (questions) to help you through the movie. If you are absent, you still have to fill out part of the forms.

 RETURNED GRADED AND EVALUATE SAMPLE PARAGRAPH/PAGE FOR THE POETRY PROJECT. Please look over the suggestions and incorporate them in your final work. 
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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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